O M G !!! The new look - - -

[crevicetool]

That little turquoise thing holding that square red (box?) with aw on it is adorable!!!

What is that? A machine of some kind?

What could be in the box?

I like the new look of the home page!

Rick

 

[112561]

AW....

Latest little being in the Robert Seger universe, like the Setting Doctor in the Reply section!

 

[hydralique]

I like the way the smile on the turquoise washer forms a classic "floating vee". The floating vee is IMO the universal design symbol of gracious living, given that it featured on so many TOL products. AW is absolutely the TOL board in my life as no other board comes close to the wonderful, feature-laden interface here!

 

[mattl]

Interesting, but it will take some getting used to.  I had my routine for years, now I have to come up with a new one.

 

[rp2813]

I use Firefox.

I'm not seeing any of the items mentioned above nor have I noticed any navigational changes that require adjusting my behavior.

Can you guys be more specific about where these turquoise boxes and "floating vee" smiles are located?   I feel so left out!

 

[112561]

On ours, it's posted over the beginning of the threads. Don't feel so bad, I can't use the new features in the posting mode because I'm gunshy about adding any more search engines to this thing.

 

[hydralique]

Out of curiosity I just cranked up the AW homepage on Firefox, and it looked exactly the same as on IE. The floating vee smile is on the front of the little turquoise washer holding the detergent box to the left of the Automaticwasher.org script, which is to the left of the animated Frigidaire thumper we all know and love.

 

[peterh770]

Nope, not seeing it...

 

[crevicetool]

I've got Explorer 7 and I've got a whole new home page!

 

[kevin313]

I'm using Internet Explorer 8 and I see the new homepage - love the new look, as well as the AW mascot!

Can we name this little guy?? How about Walter the Washer? Or Arnie Automatic?

 

[Unimatic1140]

For those who are not seeing the new home page yet, your browser is storing the old one in its cache memory.  Hit shift + refresh on the home page a few times and it should reset.  Might take a day or so for some browsers.

Matt, I'll keep the old home page active in the background for anyone who wishes to use the old one.  Just save old home page in your favorites and you can still use it.

With the exception of fixing the bugs this pretty much wraps up my list of changes for the site so it should stay pretty much as is for while.

We should totally name our new mascot.  And yes Rick, AW is a box of very HIGH SUDSING detergent!

 

[washernoob]

Some of the posts seem to not be coming through. Cant see Kevin's post above me either.

 

[Unimatic1140]

invisible post.

Now that is strange and not good.  I'll look in that ASAP.

OK I'm back, about the invisible text, I put in a no-cache command on the display pages which should help.   It might take a few hours for it to take effect.

 

[rolls_rapide]

Ye Gods, what have you done? Change, for the sake of change?

That washer with the demented face looks like it came from a Clo zone soap powder advert.

 

[miele_ge]

I think it is GREAT! It is a good layout and very visually

Thank you Robert for all you do.

Alan

 

[crevicetool]

Oooops!

Forgot to say thanks Robert.....

I like the little turquoise thingy with the vee-smile!

 

[rp2813]

Shift + Refresh worked on the first try!

Thanks Robert!

 

[mattl]

Robert, thanks, but it's not the home page that I use all the time.  I used the Forums page.  Here's what I do (did...)  After reading down the list of topics and finishing a section I'd simply hit the BACK button on my browser and get back to the forums page and move on to Deluxe from Imperial, simple quick and elegant in it's own way.  Now I have to stop and scroll all the way to the top of the current forum and then click on the next section, just seems a bit clunkier to me.

 

[earthling177]

Matt -- you probably have a few keys on your keyboard that let you quickly go to the top/bottom of pages etc. See if you have a PageUp/PageDown, or try Home/End etc. Some keyboards don't have those keys, but if you press a combination of keys, like Control/Up or Function/Up, it might work. Then you can just click on the icons, which is what I've been doing and it's very fast and easy.


Good luck!

 

[turquoisedude]

New and improved!

Wow - love the 'new look' Robert! Got a little confused with the 'Daily Double' at first but even I figured it out... LOL
Thanks again Robert, you must have spent quite a lot of time planning and engineering all this. As always, thanks for caring enough to do this for us all!!