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[ubeaut]

OK folks all is (should be) fixed to the best of our abilities and hopefully will stay that way if the idiot keeps away from the big red button.

U-Beaut skin has been updated and should now be running properly even on IE. Have set it as default for now and will try to update others where and when possible. Part of the problem appears to be with the way IE (or some versions) seem to interpret information from certain sites. I very seldom use it any more and was amazed to see how it treated some of our pages especially the tabbed pages which were brilliant in Firefox and most other browsers but looked like garbage in IE.

Anyway.... My major brain fart last night seems to be pretty well under control for now. Have tested these pages in 5 of the main browsers and all seems to be fine. Don't have Netscape on at office and only limited IE but Firefox, Opera, Mozilla, Safari and IE all worked well with no problems that I could find.

Yipee....

PS Jim Carroll will get the $150,000 bill for the massive ad campaign later today.

[ubeaut]

Over an hour and no one has replied. Must be working ok. Great.

[Tankstand]

No worries Neil! Just not used to the glaring white! I normally used the color scheme called Neil's

[ubeaut]

It'll be back again or something very similar. - I hope.

[jow104]

I must say the screen has a very clear and sharp definition these days, its like have a replacement for my old 1950 TVset.

[Burnsy]

Am I the only one that still has the slow load problem or is it still across the board and awaiting a fix? I read earlier that Steven and Cliff had also had the problem so I was not alone then. Pages load like I have stepped back five years and am running a 36k dialup

New look is good Neil. Will members be getting the tab buttons back eventually or did I misinterpret the email you sent out originally?

Thanks,
Mike

[Cliff Rogers]

Still vvveeeerrrryyyyyyy slow to load threads here.

[Waldo]

Over an hour and no one has replied. Must be working ok. Great.

I'm replying, "Hello"

Does that constitute a technical problem?


on the upgrades, all of a sudden I have "friends"

[ubeaut]

Supposed to be running like greased lightening but has it's moments for some reason. I think there might still be the odd issue with new server and I have a feeling the backups have been changed to around 10pm.

Will have a word with Steven tomorrow. I know he was still working on the site today.

Tabs will be coming back, hopefully with an improved version as the last one looked B awful in IE although it looked great in Firefox and everything else and I don't want to bring them back on line till all the issues with IE have been resolved. Will run with full page and tabbed to give a choice for those who weren't happy with the tabs.

We had a couple of major problems with the last update and most if not all of the hacks we were running on the site had to be abandoned and updated and reinstalled. Some with hundreds of lines of code that have to be deleted and replaced and updated. Even many of the skins reverted back to the basic setup which was totally unexpected. Then there was my major stuff-up which cost me 4 hours just to get one viewable skin up. (Which still isn't right and is still off line.

Many, many, dozens of hours of work were lost and it'll take some time to get it all back to where it was, as I only have a few hours working time for the fix up due to so much other back-room and real work commitments. As much as 2 - 3 hrs a day just to answer emails and pm's, fix up peoples mistakes, fights, arguments, etc.




Cheers - Neil

[Burnsy]

Thanks for the info Neil, your efforts are appreciated greatly, this forum is such a fantastic resource

[jow104]

My thanks added.