New theme: "Century"

[Zwangzug]

Okay, now that's stopped--the theme for my main country is only active when I log in to that account.

Never mind, the theme stays on now.

[Starblaydia]

A few more tweaks:

• Top-right "Login" button becomes "Switch" when logged-in
• "Logout" link moved from sidebar to banner
• Banner links have background shading
• WA background emblem only displays on nations who are WA members

Excellente, thank-you.

[East Malaysia]

I really love the new NS look and all the newness. XD.

Tho it would be nice if it had a mobile version, well not that I can't use it on my phone just tend to be huge but having an android phone means it still works great. The old theme is a lil better for that. Still wish NS had a more mobile friendly version. XD.

[Sedgistan]

Still wish NS had a more mobile friendly version. XD.

It does: http://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2 ... l#mobilens

[Flibbleites]

Still wish NS had a more mobile friendly version. XD.

It does: http://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2 ... l#mobilens

Or if you want to go directly to it, http://m.nationstates.net

[E war]

Dude the new thing looks so awesome

[Mayor For Life]

The extra navigation links on region page are really cool and make the game more user friendly.


A web page with simple html and java will often render reliably in Firefox, Chrome, SeaMonkey, Safari, Konqueror, and Opera but will have one or more "known issues" in Internet Exploder. The fix is often inexplicable. Some days I imagine there are self loathing code gnomes in Redmond whose job it is to make sure IT Admin and web site developers have job security.

The opt-in theme change in Settings is perfect - serves up NS as you like it - and I think solves the "but IE won't play nice" issue by allowing IE users to opt out of a theme IE breaks, or opt in to a browser that behaves as advertised with the new bells and whistles.

[[violet]]

I guess I don't understand why div classes are being used to simulate a table, when a real html table would make life so much easier for wierd blind folks like myself.

I mean superficially, it looks like a table. Why not make it in to a table?

Because it's harder to style a table. For example, you can't draw a border around an entire table row, only individual cells.

As mentioned, once we have our default theme set, I'm going to go over it to make a more accessible-focused theme, and that will likely still use tables for RMBs, etc.

The forum unfortunately I can't do much about because we don't build it ourselves.

Tho it would be nice if it had a mobile version, well not that I can't use it on my phone just tend to be huge but having an android phone means it still works great. The old theme is a lil better for that. Still wish NS had a more mobile friendly version. XD.

I think I need to start auto-redirecting more mobile devices to the mobile site (http://m.nationstates.net). At the moment only iPhones and iPods get redirected there.

Okay, now that's stopped--the theme for my main country is only active when I log in to that account.

Never mind, the theme stays on now.

Did you see my earlier post on this? If you are on the http://century.nationstates.net subdomain, that theme will be displayed regardless of your nation's settings.

The opt-in theme change in Settings is perfect - serves up NS as you like it - and I think solves the "but IE won't play nice" issue by allowing IE users to opt out of a theme IE breaks

I don't want our theme to have major usability issues in IE7 or IE8; too many players use those. But some cosmetic features will be missing, like rounded corners and drop shadows, since it's too hard to hack up special IE-only implementations. (This has been the case with NS for a while, maybe a couple years.)

IE9 is hopefully not too far away, and will (finally) support these things.

IE6 I don't know about. That is a real dog of a browser. But about 3% of visitors use it, which is quite a lot. I guess I'll try to make it look okay without wasting too much time on it.

[Zwangzug]

Did you see my earlier post on this? If you are on the http://century.nationstates.net subdomain, that theme will be displayed regardless of your nation's settings.

Actually, I might have missed that, sorry--the wording on the first post threw me. But I like the way things work as they are!

[East Malaysia]

Tho it would be nice if it had a mobile version, well not that I can't use it on my phone just tend to be huge but having an android phone means it still works great. The old theme is a lil better for that. Still wish NS had a more mobile friendly version. XD.

I think I need to start auto-redirecting more mobile devices to the mobile site (http://m.nationstates.net). At the moment only iPhones and iPods get redirected there.

I would have never have honestly known about it mostly because I rarely come to the NS forum XD. I tired the mobile version, much better, deffly.

But that would be a great idea to have more mobile devices to redirect to that or having a visible link somewhere that people can click on.

[[violet]]

More mobile devices redirected now.

[[violet]]

There are still a bunch of horrendous bugs in Internet Explorer, most notably the fact that the sidebar falls to the bottom of the screen at lower resolutions.

This is now fixed. It took four hours and probably broke stuff. I hate you, IE.

[Just Guy]

Don't think this belongs here, but I couldn't find a more appropriate place. On national pages, full nations' names are used. That makes my nation's page huge and awkward.

[Grandais]

I'm not a fan of the globe graphic in the banner, though I guess it will grow on me.

My main problem is the flags appearing in the RMB. If they're going to be in there, please keep them the same size they are now.

I personally think this looks way too web 2.0. But it could work with some changes.

[Netic]

I think it need more frames. I i do not like the globe banner tingy and the RMB look to chaotic. Other then that it look well

[Ballotonia]

Don't think this belongs here, but I couldn't find a more appropriate place. On national pages, full nations' names are used. That makes my nation's page huge and awkward.

Solution: resign from the WA

But, seriously, I'd like to know whether this change is here to stay. It hoses some scripts on my end, and would like to know whether to start altering them or not...

Ballotonia

[Bladia Imperia]

Don't think this belongs here, but I couldn't find a more appropriate place. On national pages, full nations' names are used. That makes my nation's page huge and awkward.

Woah..that's alot of endorsements for a nation made in September

no offence intended

[[violet]]

But, seriously, I'd like to know whether this change is here to stay.

No, it was just this:

probably broke stuff

Now fixed.

[Just Guy]

Woah..that's alot of endorsements for a nation made in September

no offence intended

None taken. I've been playing NationStates for a bit more than three months—

Now fixed.

Thanks Violet

[Bladia Imperia]

Woah..that's alot of endorsements for a nation made in September

no offence intended

None taken. I've been playing NationStates for a bit more than three months—

I figured so

[[violet]]

Couple things:

1. Button background color now white
2. Nation pages have a "View Forum posts" link under National Happenings, if that nation has ever visited the forum. (It would make more sense if this link only appeared if the nation had ever posted in the forum, but that's harder.)

[Solm]

The button background color looks ugly, in my opinion, perhaps a different button color would be more suitable, to compliment the sidebar maybe, instead of blending with the background.

[Zoerb]

I thought the white background on the buttons was a bug till I read this. It looks terrible.

[Unibot]

I thought the white background on the buttons was a bug till I read this. It looks terrible.

Me too.

Perhaps a color like the EAEAE2 or something, something soft might work better at identifying it as a button.

[South United Allies]

the century is the best i've ever seen.