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When you start off at the new homepage, you get big buttons:
"Post an article"
"Post a question"
"Search out articles" Assume you are a newbie, and you have a problem. So, you press the "Post a question button"
You are taken direct to the "New QA question page". All of this is fine. Except...in the default view, using my 1680x1050 monitor, and a "vanilla" IE9 browser, all I can see is:
Subject
Tags
Big textbox for the question
Start of preview
Lot of space on right hand side. What I can't see (and won't scroll down to look for) is the text:
A few simple rules when posting your question.
1.Have you searched or Googled for a solution?
2.Be specific! Don't ask "I need to write a booking application". Specify exactly what it is you need help with.
3.Keep the subject brief but descriptive. eg "How do I change the dialog colour?"
4.Keep the question as concise as possible. If you have to include code, include the smallest snippet of code you can - do not dump your entire codebase.
5.Tag your question appropriately.
6.Your question may be edited or retagged by others. Anything inappropriate will be removed.
7.If you have a school or university assignment, assume that your teacher or lecturer is also reading these forums.
8.Be courteous and DON'T SHOUT. Everyone here helps because they enjoy helping others, not because it's their job.
9.Do not remove or empty a message if others have replied. Keep the thread intact and available for others to search and read.
10.Do not be abusive, offensive, inappropriate,harass anyone on the boards or post ads or spam. Doing so will get you kicked off and banned. Play nice. Can we not move this to the right hand side of the textbox, so it is immediately visible, and at least suggests they should use Google first?
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Try it now.
The RH layout is how we originally had it, but I forgot why we moved it down.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Much, much more noticeable!
I doubt that they will read it, but at least they have to see it! 
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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No more persist with mouse over. I take my mouse on the red background number, it opens a notification div. I try to take my mouse slowly over it so that I can click on one of the notifications. I fail. Notification div vanishes as soon I leave number with red background. Finally, I have to click the number or the div to land on 'My Notifications' page and then see the notifications.
Earlier it was not like this.
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I faced the same in morning, but now I am used to it. But bug is a bug.
You need to be quick enough to pass that blank space between red box and notification div. 
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I was going to post that 
I wish I could believe there is an after life.
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Yep, the same happens here with my Firefox. Note that this bug applies to the menu that pops up when you hover the cursor over you profile name. Just wanted to post this bug but its already done.
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Though I didn't really find anything wrong with the old layout the New layout looks pretty good with a few exceptions.
For instance the grey text on the Latest Articles page is really hard to read. The same can be said for the text on this page.
Back when I was designing Access databases I found stayed away from using white as the background for forms or textboxes. Still do when I build an app I use Control as the color with bold black text. My clients found it easier to read.
All this white space just glares at you and if the text is grey it tends to fade into the background.
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Overall I like the new layout. Much cleaner. However... do we really need -so- much vertical spacing?
In the lounge for example: text, 1/8" gap, faint line, 1/8" gap, text, etc... Measured it with a ruler!
Font's are also... fuzzy? v's & w's are oddly faint. The old font was definitely easier to read. Old eyes are already plenty fuzzy. Now my computer is enhancing the effect?
Using Firefox btw.
-- Ian
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I have been subscribing to an RSS feed to CodeProject for some time. A couple months ago it stopped delivering ONE message per article and started delivering multiple feeds for the same article. It there any way to stop that and go back to ONE initial feed and that's all.
Seems to me I remember seeing an option when I first set this up for just that. If that option is still available I can't find it.
Thank you
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Which feed are you subscribed to?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Outlook gives the following information about the Feed:
Channel Name: The Code Project Latest Articles
Location: http://www.codeproject.com/WebServices/ArticleRSS.aspx?cat=6
Description: Latest Articles from The Code Project
I want to receive notification of new projects, articles, etc only once. I don't know if they are being resent with each new comment or just being constantly resent.
Thank you for looking into this.
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Were you able to look at my problem to see if it is coming from you end?
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Well, when I look at that web page I see the same thing. But I don't believe that has anything to do with my question.
I subscribe to the feed through MS Outlook. In Outlook, I keep getting the same items pushed out to me again and again even though nothing has changed. No edits, no comments.
The way it used to work was that each item was pushed out to me one time, UNLESS, there was an edit to the article or a new comment added.
This change seems to have occurred about the time Code Project was given its fresh look, which I might add, was better the old way.
Is there something at your end that is causing each article to be pushed out multiple times?
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The RSS feed was not touched in the redesign.
I'll keep an eye on it my end to see if I can replicate what you're seeing.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thank you. That would be apprecated.
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Could just be me and/or could just be temporary but it seems the site is slower. Seemed slower yesterday as well.
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I've just updated the site. It's slow while it spools back up.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Have you heard of the Application Initialization extension for IIS? Whenever a web app starts (e.g., when you modify the web.config or DLL's), this extension allows you to specify which pages to automatically hit so they get compiled before a user visits the app. Haven't used it myself, but I'd like to.
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Yep - seen that, but to materially help it would have to hit several hundred pages to build up the cache, since it's the cache building that speeds things uo the most.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: it would have to hit several hundred pages to build up the cache
I'm sure if you ask nicely, it will do its best.
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Hi CP,
The boxes with headers "Your Filters", "Top Experts in 24hrs" , "Top Experts this month" and one box saying "Your status enables you to edit this question. Alternatively, if the question is incomplete or simply isn't a question, then please report it." in quick answers section are not aligned.
I mean the left border of the boxes saying "Your status enables you" and "Your Filters" are not in the same left border line of the boxes below them.
I am not sure, whether it is a bug or the implementation is like that, but posted because looks odd to me.
Thanks,
Tadit
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I just noticed that when I want to save a article now i'm not finding a add to favorites or add to book marks link anywhere on a page.
I assume that is still one of the items being worked on in the new site version ?
Or am I just not seeing it ?
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In the info box to the right of the article title, in the box labelled "bookmark"
Social bookmark links / Like button at the bottom next to rating
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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