I must say, this is really awkward to use, and the popup box dosn’t help too much. How about a regular browser window, with table widths that scale (as the current popup does). The vertical scrollbar provided by my browser should be sufficient to take care of my scrolling needs 
Other than that, glad to see a modern, full-featured forum system! (returns to usual lurking mode)
Thanks for the feedback. The idea for the framed look is to keep the site windows consistent and to let people jump on for a quick peek at forum activity.
The popup is there for those that want to view the forum in fullscreen. As well, the popup allows you to continue surfing while still keeping the forums up
-Chris
Hrm… at least could the popup just be a regular link? I need my navigation buttons etc. It looks like you guys have disabled the poll feature of YaBB, but this seems like an excellent topic for a poll once more of the userbase has joined up again
Hi guys,
Just a regular lurker getting comfy here…
Great job with the overhaul ! 8)
BTW Chris, I just bought that Law And Order game you mentionned a while ago being made in Java/Java3D. Funny thing is, no Java logo is there to be seen on the box… and no mention of a JRE being needed in the manual. Aren’t Java game companies required to put the Java logo somewhere in there ?
(I supposed I should just try it, but I ain’t got the time right now.)
cheers
BorgKnight
Very nice! Just one problem I noted… is there a way that the top header could be shrunk? It seems to be very awkward with a banner that big.
I do like the PopUp though… seems to take care of that.
Congratulations on the overhaul!
Chris,
Congrats on getting a nice message board. I also like the color selection of the new site.
I hate to criticize, but I do find the new website akward tough. It’s a page with a scrollbar inside of my browser scrollbar. It’s just plain strange.
I imagine in the future you will have articles and the like, are you going to have the scrollable thing below them, I don’t know, it’s just weird.
As for the popup, it’s fine, but oh please, can you make it so it doesn’t turn off the browser navigation and menus? It’s very annoying to have a browser window and not be able to use any of the browser functionality.
But keep on the good work.
Hey, just saw on TV Sun is going to lay of 8,000. I hope you guys are not hit so bad, specially you and Jeff!
Ahh nice with a new layout.
some points though:
Here’s for hoping that we get even more users onboard!
I agree with what has been said about the popup forum:
make it a regular browser window with back-button etc. No need to hide browser controls.
After playing with the site a bit more, I still don’t like the message board insdie of the browser with a scrollbar. I have to manage 2 scrollbars to view and edit messages!
Also, on Mozilla 1.2a (Windows) when the message board frame changes content, the rectangle bounds of it flash a bit.
The new message board looks very nice and it’s a great improvement, but why not let the browser scrollbar do it’s thing and make this a bit more standard?
Working on it… ;D
-Chris
Sorry to nag about this Chris, we all know what a big effort it is to set this stuff up.
Hey, but like I said, it looks a lot nicer. Can’t wait to see what it’ll look like with the articles.
Fundamental rule of web design, never, ever, ever, break or remove the users back button, and yet that pop-up does exactly that. :o
I’d like it back please.
The layout and colours are nice though 
But it would be nice if it stretched to fit the browser window instead of a fixed width. Forum software seems good as well, and a proper set of code tags now ;D
public class foo extends bar
{
public foo()
{
// wonder if this works
}
}
a quick workaround for the scrolling frame:
open the popup, show the page info, copy the url and open it in a regular browserwindow…
… seems to work fine…
greetings,
holger
Again, guys…
Thee frames and popup are being fixed. They will be updated ASAP. No need to cut and paste (yada, yada, yada)
Working on the stuff as fast as we can.
Thanks!
-Chris
All,
Fixed the ‘Forum Popup’ Button so that you now have full navagation in that window. The revamped Forums page will be launched with the rest of the site.
-Chris
it doesn’t look like the popup is fixed… it’s missing the menu bar and status bar.
why does it have to be a popup? why not just make it a link? if someone wants it in a separate window, they can click “open link in new window”
Hey there, just noticed the new look and feel.
It’s very cool, but I’d have to agree with the many comments already on the scrolling frame inside the window, its a little awkward.
Keep up the good work!
Well I’m biased but i justw ant to give Chris a big thanks for researching this and setting it up ;D
Just the code blocks alone should be a great asset to our community (And you guys should see what hes done with the main site, itll be great when its back up and should be far more interractive and stay much more up to date! )
Wow…it’s like watching an Imax movie! Thanks, Chris.
No more frames for the forums.
Next things to add:
Coming soon… ;D
-Chris