Grapevine Forum Width?

[Ben]

Hi Everyone,

What are your thoughts about the width of the forum? Nowadays peoples monitors can handle higher resolutions, (normally 1024px to 1280px in width).

This forum was originally designed 2 years back, when most people where using standard 800 x 600 monitors.

Would you be happier in increasing the width? You would see more text on a line and also cater for larger images.

Whats your thoughts? Please vote.

All the best

Ben

[shirlthegirl43]

I am okay with up to 1024px wide.

[piskieinboots]

Would you be happier in increasing the width?
Ben

oh most deffo

[Nicos]

I'm happy with the way it is- I belong to a few other forums and they use wider widths and they don't have quite the same 'user friendly' look about them- almost too much to be reading on one line if you get what I mean?

I'm easy either way, but would prefer it to stay the same.

[HeyWayne]

Dagnamit! I clicked the wrong button. Looking at my screen here I have a green area either side of the main "body" of the forum, so I guess that'd suggest wider is possible for me. That said, I don't find the screen as is a problem, so if it would cause others problems, I'm equally happy to stay thin.

[veg4681]

I've never had cause for complaint with existing screen so will go with whatever the majority will vote for . We're so spoilt rotten these days...

[smallblueplanet]

I vote stay the same.

Out of interest isn't there supposed to be an 'optimum' width of sentence/line for easier reading? But anyway it seems fine as is on a laptop screen of 1024x768 @ 32bit colour.

Another question, I view using FF on a laptop with a 'history menu' displayed down the lefthandside, will the whole width of the forum still be displayed without having to use scrolling? Having used other forums where someone posts a particularly wide message it is really tedious have to scroll back and forwards to read the messages.

[Alison]

Doesn't bother me one way or the other and there's no option for that on the vote!

[Seahorse]

I like it the way it is, as I can have my favourites sidebar up and still read without scrolling l to r.

[scarey55]

I tend to agree with Nicos, I think I know the forum she is referring to and it doesn't seem to have the same friendly feel to it. Might be something to do with the colour too which I feel is very good for this forum as well as pleasing to the eye.

Having said that, I don't really mind either way.

[workhorse]

Why mend what's not broken. Leave it as it is please.

[SueA]

I like it as it is & am a bit worried that I might have to scroll sideways if it was increased a great deal but will be happy with whatever is decided by the majority.

[Nicos]

I'd not really thought about SBP's comment on optimum words/width per line.
But now that I have I realise that the width I am typing in now is much the same as if I were reading a book- maybe that's why it feels 'right'???

Just because other forums are wider doesn't mean we have to 'keep up with them' .....as if a narrower format is out of date......

[moggssue]

Well, I like it as it is, but wont cause a fuss if it changes - I'll just get used to it I guess.

[terrier]

Nice and compact, easy to read and navigate around. If it ain't broke,don't fix it.