Minor Update - GTP6.1

[Jordan]

As you may have noticed, a few things have changed with our new style! I eliminated the small gray table that was inside the larger white one. I also increased the width of the table containing page contents to 97% of the screen, making the page significantly larger and wider. The "New Posts" link also now shows threads with new replies over the last 24 hours, instead of threads with new replies since you last visited the site. Username text in posts was also made 1 point smaller. I experimented with even smaller text, but trust me when I say it would be sacrificing usability.

I'm sure you have also noticed that I have moved the ads to the top of the page. I know there will be some complaints about this, and I apologize for it, but the ads on the bottom of the page were simply not performing well at all. Our new-found speed costs me more money than ever before, so the ads are more important than ever. As always if you do ever see something that interests you, please click on it to support GTP!

Of course, if you find any problems with the new style, please be sure to let me know in this thread. I know some of the things I've changed were the most common complaints, so hopefully more of you will be happier now with GTP6.

 

[donbenni]

I don't know if anyone has the same problem, but when i click the ads it doesn't do anything. It says 'go to www.url.com' in my status bar, but nothing happens.

 

[Sage]

Ah, thanks for removing the inner table – that was really bugging me, but I didn't have the nerve to say so.

BTW, there's a typo in the Google ads: They say "Grand" Turismo instead of "Gran".

[edit]: Oops, now some say Gran, but the last set definitely said "Grand"... actually, it was really weird, because it said Grand Turismo 4: Playstation 1 games!

 

[Jordan]

Ah, thanks for removing the inner table – that was really bugging me, but I didn't have the nerve to say so.

BTW, there's a typo in the Google ads: They say "Grand" Turismo instead of "Gran".

[edit]: Oops, now some say Gran, but the last set definitely said "Grand"... actually, it was really weird, because it said Grand Turismo 4: Playstation 1 games!

Yeah, I didn't realise how awkward it was until I removed it. It was like..."ahhh", or something. I can't control what those ads say, only prevent specific ads from showing. Click on the "Ads by Google" text in the dark green bar to send Google your comments on specific ads. Maybe they will change it if they get enough complaints.

 

[Delphic Reason]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it's slower now...

When you changed servers, the speed jumped quite a bit....... As soon as you updated to GTP6.1, it slowed down again... Not to the slow speed it was before, but much slower then the new server was, right after you switched to it.......

I was really excited about the new speed, and now it's slow again.....

 

[Jordan]

Slower...? It shouldn't be, there's less code and fewer images on each page. Maybe the ads being on top of the page are slowing it down, although it's running exactly the same for me as it was before.

 

[Delphic Reason]

Maybe..... I had to go back to GTP Lite, so it would run at a reasonable speed.....

 

[Jordan]

Has anyone else experienced a slowdown?

 

[sUn]

There must be something wrong with silviadrifter's connection or browser itself.

GTP's flying for me.

 

[Flerbizky]

Has anyone else experienced a slowdown?

And the correct answer to this is : .... *Dramatic Pause* - Nope...

The new server is really kicking A** Jordan.. It's been fast both at home (512/512 DSL) and at wrrk (10Mbit aerial)

Cheers - And again - Thanks 👍

When can we start signing up for GTP Premium ?

 

[sUn]

And the correct answer to this is : .... *Dramatic Pause* - Nope...

The new server is really kicking A** Jordan.. It's been fast both at home (512/512 DSL) and at wrrk (10Mbit aerial)

Cheers - And again - Thanks 👍

When can we start signing up for GTP Premium ?

Were still discussing what we want in it here.

 

[Flerbizky]

Were still discussing what we want in it here.

I know... I just wanna sign up...

I should put that as the top line in my sig, that way you can guide me here each time I post

 

[Cosmic]

GTP is faster for me , much faster. Everything works fine

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

The forum links on the main page didn't get fixed(Mozilla), but I can live with those.

 

[Spock]

i havent noticed a change in speed, but maybe its because i tweaked my firefox browser to d/l info faster.

and if we just click the ads and close the window they come up in will it still support gtp?

 

[Jordan]

The forum links on the main page didn't get fixed(Mozilla), but I can live with those.

Yeah, I know, I just can't fix it! I've tried everything I can possibly think of. If anyone can figure out what's causing that please tell me, I'd love to know!

and if we just click the ads and close the window they come up in will it still support gtp?

Yes.

 

[Spock]

Yes.

Thats Awsome.
Now i can support GTP even though i dont have any money .

 

[Sage]

Heh, I've been doing that ever since GTP6 came out. Of course, don't go overboard – I've known a forum that went under, because its webmaster told everybody to click as much as possible on the ads, and the ad people withdrew because they couldn't handle all the profit-less traffic. A few won't hurt though.

 

[Spock]

Heh, I've been doing that ever since GTP6 came out. Of course, don't go overboard – I've known a forum that went under, because its webmaster told everybody to click as much as possible on the ads, and the ad people withdrew because they couldn't handle all the profit-less traffic. A few won't hurt though.

yeah i dont plan on sitting at my laptop all day and clicking ads. but yeah a few every once in a while.

 

[Matrixhasu77]

Yeah, I know, I just can't fix it! I've tried everything I can possibly think of. If anyone can figure out what's causing that please tell me, I'd love to know!

Yes.

Well, I've had a look at it. The only thing that I can come up with is that you have the GTP Forum links all in one Table Cell versus a Table Cell for each one. I'm not sure if placing each link in a separate Table cell would fix the problem though.

However, You do have the main categories in separate table cells since you have the images so that likely isn't the problem for the Forum links.

From what I know of CSS, you could define a div selector with the following in your CSS and place a div selector inside the code of the page that uses div class="ForumLinks".

  div.ForumLinks { text-align: left;}

Although, I'm probably and most likely horriblely wrong. Sage or Shannon may know a fix if that doesn't work. It's been a few months since I've experimented with CSS.

 

[donbenni]

I don't know if anyone has the same problem, but when i click the ads it doesn't do anything. It says 'go to www.url.com' in my status bar, but nothing happens.

I don't mean to be rude, but i feel ignored. I'd like to help GTP out by clicking on the ads, but i can't. I think this problem is linked to many others i'm having online at the moment. The same thing happens with the ads on deviantART.com.

 

[sUn]

Wierd donbenni, I tried clicking the adds and it takes me to the page. What browser are you using?

 

[Jordan]

Thanks for the support, everyone, but like Sage said just don't go overboard with the clicks!

Well, I've had a look at it. The only thing that I can come up with is that you have the GTP Forum links all in one Table Cell versus a Table Cell for each one. I'm not sure if placing each link in a separate Table cell would fix the problem though.

However, You do have the main categories in separate table cells since you have the images so that likely isn't the problem for the Forum links.

From what I know of CSS, you could define a div selector with the following in your CSS and place a div selector inside the code of the page that uses div class="ForumLinks".

Yes, table cells would probably fix it, but there just has to be another way. There is no reason why text in a cell can't be organized with line breaks. I've tried the CSS text-align, along with just about every other CSS alignment attribute, and it doesn't affect it one bit.

I don't mean to be rude, but i feel ignored. I'd like to help GTP out by clicking on the ads, but i can't. I think this problem is linked to many others i'm having online at the moment. The same thing happens with the ads on deviantART.com.

I am very sorry, donbenni, I didn't mean to ignore you but I have no idea what would be causing that problem and I am still awaiting a response from Google's support department. There's just nothing I can tell you right now.

 

[Sage]

Jordan, I emailed you the solution yesterday. (Couldn't post it... kept getting chopped up.)

 

[Jordan]

Fantastic, Sage!!! That did the job!!! Thanks!!! I have no idea how that attribute got in there...it must have been something Dreamweaver threw in, I've never used it before.

 

[Sage]

You're welcome. Still can't believe how long I overlooked that though.

 

[sUn]

Heh, I've been doing that ever since GTP6 came out. Of course, don't go overboard – I've known a forum that went under, because its webmaster told everybody to click as much as possible on the ads, and the ad people withdrew because they couldn't handle all the profit-less traffic. A few won't hurt though.

That happend at a forum I went to aswell. The owner was banned from using Google Ad Service.

You're welcome. Still can't believe how long I overlooked that though.

Good work, Sage. You smart-arse!

 

[Matrixhasu77]

So it was the PHP Session ID causing the problem on the links? If so then Dreamweaver really screwed up on that one. That's why I always proofread my code by hand. It looks much better now in FireFox.

I noticed that when I looked at it but didn't think that was the cause.

 

[Sage]

PHP Session ID who what? The offender was actually very simple... in the .navbarlinkbottom selector (that points to the td that holds those links), there was a white-space: pre declaration. That makes the text "preformatted", which means that all white space within the HTML is taken into account (normally anything more than one space is ignored). It's good for showing code, but not much else, of course.

 

[Matrixhasu77]

PHP Session ID who what? The offender was actually very simple... in the .navbarlinkbottom selector (that points to the td that holds those links), there was a white-space: pre declaration. That makes the text "preformatted", which means that all white space within the HTML is taken into account (normally anything more than one space is ignored). It's good for showing code, but not much else, of course.

Ah. I didn't see that. As for the PHP Session ID, it was in each link after each forum link(such as forumdisplay.php or usercp.php) and was a long string of numbers. It's not in the updated version of the page now though.

See, I knew you'd catch it. Nice work.