Testing a "new" BBoAH

novamann · 04 February 2009, 00:10

Hi @ all,

I'm testing a PHP-based software for the BBoAH. I would like to hear what you think about. The "look" is not ready and searching by manufacturer not available. You can switch between German/English down on the left side.

www.amiga-resistance.info/bboahfaq

Regards
novamann

Zetr0 · 04 February 2009, 03:51

@Novamann

I have a lot of hope for this project, it will certainly bring the BBoAH up todate in web technology terms, I would like to see a multi-national approach with a selectable english / german / spanish etc.

This project is a long time comming for BBoAH I wish you the best of luck with it

Charlie · 04 February 2009, 09:03

An excellent start.

I look forward to upcoming progress with regard to improved site design & usability...
...I'm sure you won't but don't forget the BBoAH is liable to be viewed by some pretty out of date browsers - testing.

Regards.

keropi · 04 February 2009, 09:46

I am used and like the old style one... the black one!

novamann · 04 February 2009, 10:06

Hello,
the "new" ist tested with IBrowse 2.4 and AWeb 3.4 and 3.5. The programmer of the soft is helping me to change the CSS-colors to changeable colors for our old amiga-browsers.

Languages are easy to change, for the moment only German/English, but more languages are no problem with this soft.

Main reasons for this are: it can run on most every webspace with no problems. In the past I had a lot of problems with PERL functionality at some hosters. The built-in editor is much more easy to use so that updates will be no problem in the future. At the momet it is something like

I hope that the look of this CSS-based soft can be changed to whatever is needed so that the "old" black and white will be possible to.

Regards
novamann

keropi · 04 February 2009, 10:55

ah, so it offers classic amiga web-browser compatibillity! very very nice then!

DH · 04 February 2009, 12:23

Been jumping to this site for years, best place to find any Amiga related hardware

Excellent work, looking forward to the up and coming changes and future updates

novamann · 04 February 2009, 16:28

Hello,

made some tests and here is the result:

http://www.novamann.de/bboahfaq2

What do you think about?

Regards
novamann

DH · 04 February 2009, 21:42

I must admit, I like the black backgrounds, it's easier on the eyes. Looking good

alexh · 10 February 2009, 13:59

Any chance of either going back to the old BBoAH or optimising the output for a larger screen size.

It is sooo much harder to navigate. The layout is too small. On a 1280x1024 screen 1/5th is not used!

Users are not interested in the right hand window (The newest 30 entries) once they have started browsing, it just eats up space in the viewing window.

I do not like the "Author field" which suddenly now reads "Novaman" for almost all pages regardless of who contributed to them in the past.

Where has the reference to Ian Chapman gone from the front page? He is the founder of BBoAH and should not be forgotton!

Thalion · 10 February 2009, 18:30

Hm Interesting as i'm using the same resolution but the whole screen is used. Maybe its browser dependant but with opera everything is fine.

alexh · 10 February 2009, 19:12

I'm using Firefox 3.0 and you can see the 1/5th not used.

novamann · 11 February 2009, 20:01

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Originally Posted by alexh

Any chance of either going back to the old BBoAH or optimising the output for a larger screen size.

It is sooo much harder to navigate. The layout is too small. On a 1280x1024 screen 1/5th is not used!

Users are not interested in the right hand window (The newest 30 entries) once they have started browsing, it just eats up space in the viewing window.

I do not like the "Author field" which suddenly now reads "Novaman" for almost all pages regardless of who contributed to them in the past.

Where has the reference to Ian Chapman gone from the front page? He is the founder of BBoAH and should not be forgotton!

Scroll a little bit down, find a better soft.

I asked you last year and got no reply. It's not helpfull not to talk with me. I Think there can be made changes for everything. The screen is something like dynamic to the content in the middle.

I just wanted this thing as much compatible as possible to Aweb and IBrowse.

Regards

novamann · 11 February 2009, 21:10

Alook at my 4000T with 1152x884 Workbench.

Regards

novamann · 11 February 2009, 21:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

Any chance of either going back to the old BBoAH or optimising the output for a larger screen size.

It is sooo much harder to navigate. The layout is too small. On a 1280x1024 screen 1/5th is not used!

On my A2000 and A3000 with Eizo 15" @ 1024 x 768 it fits perfectly. And most of the people I know use smaller, windowed screens, not full screen. If its possible to change this I can beg the author of the programm and he will eventually change it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

Users are not interested in the right hand window (The newest 30 entries) once they have started browsing, it just eats up space in the viewing window.

It's dynamic, gets smaller if needed, bigger if the middle-content allows.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

I do not like the "Author field" which suddenly now reads "Novaman" for almost all pages regardless of who contributed to them in the past.

Its the name of that one who made the work. If you wrote the entry your name would be there. The Contributors are standing at the end of the article as before.

Quote:

Originally Posted by alexh

Where has the reference to Ian Chapman gone from the front page? He is the founder of BBoAH and should not be forgotton!

Ian Chapman is still founder and his name stands at the home/news screen as he did before. Whats your problem?

alexh · 11 February 2009, 21:37

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