Dave Baker
Sun 16th Jul '00, 11:36pm
To me, anyway -- I like the text of the messages to appear in the left column, then have the posting party's information and poster-specific icons immediately to the right of the text of the message. This seems to get the meat of the discussion in a little more prominent position.
Plus I thought the line of icons at the bottom of each message broke up the text of the thread too much, so I moved the poster-specific icons over to the <TD> column that has the poster's name and title, leaving only the "edit" and "quote" icons (which are message-specific) in the <TD> column that has the text of the messages.
Here's my postbits template to achieve these effects:
<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=4>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<td valign="top" width="100%">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td width="100%">$posticon <smallfont><B>$postitle</b></smallfont>
<p><normalfont>$message</normalfont></td></tr></table>
</td>
<TD width="175" valign="top" nowrap>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<td width="100%"><a name="post$postid"></a>
$firstnewname
<normalfont><B>$username</B></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$location$usertitle since $userjoindate<br>
$userpostcount messages posted</smallfont><br>
$profile $useremail $homepage <a href="search.php3?action=simplesearch&exactname=yes&searchuser=$searchuser"><img src="images/find.gif" border=0 alt="View other messages by $username"></a></td></tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<td width="100%" valign="middle" height="16">
<table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td align="RIGHT" valign="middle"><A HREF="newreply.php3?action=newreply&postid=$postid"><IMG SRC="images/quote.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Add a reply message using Quote"></A> <a HREF="editpost.php3?action=editpost&postid=$postid"><IMG SRC="images/edit.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Edit or delete this message"></A> <!-- $ icq --> <!-- $ aim --> <!-- $ yahoo --></td>
<td align="right" valign="middle" nowrap><smallfont>$iplogged</smallfont></td></tr>
</table></td>
<td width="175" valign="middle" height="16" nowrap>$foldericon <smallfont>$postdate $posttime</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>
Plus I thought the line of icons at the bottom of each message broke up the text of the thread too much, so I moved the poster-specific icons over to the <TD> column that has the poster's name and title, leaving only the "edit" and "quote" icons (which are message-specific) in the <TD> column that has the text of the messages.
Here's my postbits template to achieve these effects:
<table width=100% border=0 cellspacing=1 cellpadding=4>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<td valign="top" width="100%">
<table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" border="0">
<tr><td width="100%">$posticon <smallfont><B>$postitle</b></smallfont>
<p><normalfont>$message</normalfont></td></tr></table>
</td>
<TD width="175" valign="top" nowrap>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10">
<tr>
<td width="100%"><a name="post$postid"></a>
$firstnewname
<normalfont><B>$username</B></normalfont><br>
<smallfont>$location$usertitle since $userjoindate<br>
$userpostcount messages posted</smallfont><br>
$profile $useremail $homepage <a href="search.php3?action=simplesearch&exactname=yes&searchuser=$searchuser"><img src="images/find.gif" border=0 alt="View other messages by $username"></a></td></tr></table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr bgcolor="$backcolor">
<td width="100%" valign="middle" height="16">
<table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
<tr><td align="RIGHT" valign="middle"><A HREF="newreply.php3?action=newreply&postid=$postid"><IMG SRC="images/quote.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Add a reply message using Quote"></A> <a HREF="editpost.php3?action=editpost&postid=$postid"><IMG SRC="images/edit.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="Edit or delete this message"></A> <!-- $ icq --> <!-- $ aim --> <!-- $ yahoo --></td>
<td align="right" valign="middle" nowrap><smallfont>$iplogged</smallfont></td></tr>
</table></td>
<td width="175" valign="middle" height="16" nowrap>$foldericon <smallfont>$postdate $posttime</smallfont></td>
</tr>
</table>