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Is it really supposed to look like this? See attached. I just see the background in blocks and all the rest is still grey.
Eric

Evogels, your screenshot looks normal.

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Is there a simple way to turn off the headache-producing red background when using IE7 & IE8?

Everyone, I think Stefan wanted a red background.

I've recolored the design to make it easier on the eyes and presented it to Stefan for consideration.

You may preview the recolored wallpaper here. Do you think this is better?

[Edit: Also, the file size is somewhat smaller than the current website wallpaper, less than 100K. Nowadays this is a very reasonable size and shouldn't cause loading delays on its own accord.]

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I've recolored the design to make it easier on the eyes and presented it to Stefan for consideration.

Thanks, I hope it's grey.

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Stefan -
Thanks as always for the work you do and for the software/forum upgrade.

For me though, the front page is not nearly as elegant/easy to read/well organized as in the past.
I do most my reading here starting from the front page.

The 2 colums makes it disorganized looking.  Showing a quote from each thread takes up a lot of space.  The original author of the thread is not listed.  And the page numbers links of the thread that I had already read used to show up as different color (red).  Now The page numbers have no distinction so I have to guess where I last left off reading.
I see the 'forum' page is still basically the same layout.

Was cool to see the avatars back (for a day)!  And what about extended formating - like underline, italics, strikeout etc... you gonna bring them back?

The previous layout of the front page was one of the best I've seen, very organized.
Might you consider styling the front page similair to what is was before?  And least go with 1 column and don't list a quote from each thread?

Thanks a bunch!   

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Thanks, I hope it's grey.

Aevogels,

If you click the link for "here" in my previous post you can see the redesign. It is still red but does not have the bright yellow component. The color is Stefan's prerogative, but I can see where black text directly on top of the wallpaper may not be readable in some areas. So perhaps a neutral gray may work better or the text on top of the wallpaper can be changed. We'll see what Stefan says. I can do another redesign if needed.