New Design - What Do You Think?

[Peter_AUS]

Yes I agree with Asylum_Steve's comments. It is set as 100% but you need to look at the other column settings to see that one of the columns is coded at around 846 wide and then there is more columns to contend with on the right side. See the screen shot attached and you will see there is scrolling from left to right of about 1 1/2 inches or so.

The Kodak add to me is OK, but as long as the ad is served once to each person when they enter the forums. Not each time the forum page reloads, otherwise you are getting people to see the same add many many times. I understand that ads are necessary for the forums to survive but our time and bandwidth usage is important to us as well. If we view the threads in the forums, and have to content with this ad just about every reload, then the time spent in the forums is extended by the amount of times the ad loads x 5 seconds which does ad up over the course of viewing the threads. Yes turning off the Flash Player in the tools manage add-ons turns it off completely, but that then defeats the purpose of having the flash player installed in the first place and also the site having ads. If everyone turns off the player and/or uses another web browser then the ads aren't viewed enough and then they won't want to place ads on the forums to generate income to pr.com. Maybe the engineers can rethink the way the ad is served to users, I am sure there is a way that this can be addressed, it doesn't seem to me to happen much on other sites that server up ads like this, so they must have a coding to be able to server the ad once.

Apart from that, the redesign looks good.