It's human nature to resist change, and invoking change always comes at a cost before any benefit is realisable(sorry about the 's').From what I can gather from recent postings, it seems that there is a preference for Cadence to alter the operation and usability of cdnusers so that it attains most of the functionality and usability of ones preferred email client software. I hate to point out the obvious... Best Regards David Greig ______________________________ GigaDyne Ltd Buchan House Carnegie Campus Dunfermline KY11 8PL United Kingdom t: +44 (0)1383 624 975 www.gigadyne.co.uk <http://www.gigadyne.co.uk/> ______________________________ _____ From: icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icu-pcb-forum-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of richard moffat Sent: 08 March 2006 23:46 To: icu-pcb-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [PCB_FORUM] New www.cdnusers.org forum - suggestions (was -Re: Don't shut this list down !) Hi Although I'm not 100% convinced, let's try and be constructive here. As promised, I said I would try make a few suggestions. I'm posting this here as most people are still on this list. Suggestions for www.cdnusers.org's 'Forums' pages. (I appreciate a lot of this is a tall order, but other people may be thinking the same.) 1 - a help menu, to help with navigation. eg, tell people that text sizes can indeed be resized through the browser 2 - "Work in progress", eg. to let users know that 'the email issue' is a concern and they are being worked on. Not all WIP would necessarily be in the "suggestions" folder that's there. 3 - It looks like it's been optimized for a 800 pixel screen. I haven't used one of these for centuries. A little bit of javascript will widen the page size to what a screen will handle. 4 - Failing point 3, have the main page resizable anyway. 5 - The HTML editor is too small. Other HTML editors exist that are more flexible, including being able to embed an image. 6 - Have the forums page set to a link that is stable, if "http://www.cdnusers.org/Forums/tabid/52/Default.aspx"; isn't already. That way, people can bookmark the page if they wish to. 7 - It's been written with asp.net. Is there a compression method available similar to mod_gzip? The javascript, html and css files can then be compressed. 8 - It would be possible to add a search to the first forum ( //www.freelists.org/archives/icu-pcb-forum/ ) to look through older archives. It does not necessarily need to have the results in the new format - a new window would be fine. 9 - I'm not sure if spell checking is possible. OK, it's technically possible, and has been done before elsewhere, but may be quite tricky here. Ditto for saving work half way through. Although, if we can reply from an email will not make this so important. These would not, unfortunately, be available for new postings. People like me may hav to lern to typ bettr. 10 - a 'printer friendly' option Well, seems I've the "magic 10". Let's see what happens. Meanwhile, I've got a bit of a backlog of work to clear! 11 - oops - one more. A small point, but not all the world follows the US date format. Well, actually, I don't know of anyone else that does. This should be able to be tied to the 'My Profile'. Cheers, Richard NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesyn Research Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesyn Research. -- Virus scanned by Lumison.