New DH Site skin

niceguyrichy · Jun 19, 2007, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by germanjulian

20Mbit connection from UK and page takes ages to load...

that's something your end, the site loads just fine with this skin

***Zardon*** · Jun 19, 2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by germanjulian

20Mbit connection from UK and page takes ages to load...

That was because virgin media have had issues all day http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/...?ticket=493968, and I notice you are (like me) one of their customers. It is apparently fixed now, but some people are still experiencing DNS issues.

Good idea to bookmark this page http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/vmstatus/summary.do

GutterPunk · Jun 19, 2007, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

That was because virgin media have had issues all day http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/...?ticket=493968, and I notice you are (like me) one of their customers. It is apparently fixed now, but some people are still experiencing DNS issues.

Good idea to bookmark this page http://status-cable.virginmedia.com/vmstatus/summary.do

hey you guys aren't the only ones with dns issues. This seems to be a worldly thing. We got calls from our customers in north carolina USA, some canadian and west coast for cableone, road runner, and cox. My roadrunner worked and outside dsl didn't have a problem.

brutusmaximus · Jun 19, 2007, 05:55 PM

nice job guys, its colorful, clean and lovely n dark. I like the concept of these skins, quite fresh and I like it when sites like gamespot do it too. If it funds my favourite tech site, im happy!

I hate the way some tech sites have ads for dating and smilies and crap like that. I actually bought a video card from an ad here a while ago. good adverts, I don't mind them.

Necrosis · Jun 19, 2007, 06:10 PM

Only problem I've seen so far with it is some threads tell me how many posts I have in them.

HawgsHead · Jun 19, 2007, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

Many of you by now will have seen the new default skin on Driver Heaven. So you are all aware for the next 2 weeks Driver Heaven is helping Intel promote their Gaming C2E processors. We are trialing some new forms of advertising with selected, high profile, high quality companies we work with. There will be only a handful of companies who we rate as the best in their field. We also feel that intel right now are in an extremely strong position to offer our members some great products across the board, whether it is for enthusiast gamers or business users, so we hope this advertising scheme is not only extremely attractive, but genuinely useful to all you guys. Going on feedback we also know that most of you hate ad banners and other forms of advertising which interfere with forum browsing, so we are keen to try alternative campaigns.

It is extremely important i point out that it is only the site skin Intel are sponsoring, all our reviews and articles fall distinctly outside this area, and we pride ourselves on honest, fair and unbiased editorial content.

BEAUTIFUL skin!

Dyre Straits · Jun 20, 2007, 12:12 AM

Glad to see I'm not alone in the DNS issues department. I'm on 12Mbits Cable and sometimes the pages take anywhere from 30 seconds to a full minute to load. It's actually something I've mentioned before and it comes and goes, but usually DH is one of the slower forums to load for me. I still don't know why. I clear my cache at least once per night, delete all the junk via CCleaner, and spam via Ad-Aware and I've turned off the auto-phishing.

Most of the time, I just figure there's a lot of traffic here on DH and that adds to the congestion.

But, on topic, re: the new skin: I do really like it. But, the text is too bright white compared to Midnight Heaven. Does anyone else wish it were just a little more off-white? (Could the brightness also be that the background is pure black in most cases?)

Otherwise, it's fine and dandy.

ronnn · Jun 20, 2007, 12:26 AM

I like it, but found it a little hard on my eyes (am tired). So have changed over to skyheaven

***Zardon*** · Jun 20, 2007, 02:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

But, on topic, re: the new skin: I do really like it. But, the text is too bright white compared to Midnight Heaven. Does anyone else wish it were just a little more off-white? (Could the brightness also be that the background is pure black in most cases?).

The original skin I designed wasnt a pure black background with pure white text, but intel wanted it specifically this way. There are a few things we have changed to suit their requirements not my design ideas that were originally implemented. You can rest assured that everything you see on this theme is exactly the way intel have requested it.

Dyre Straits · Jun 20, 2007, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

The original skin I designed wasnt a pure black background with pure white text, but intel wanted it specifically this way. There are a few things we have changed to suit their requirements not my design ideas that were originally implemented. You can rest assured that everything you see on this theme is exactly the way intel have requested it.

And, if Intel's happy, we should be thrilled to death.

BlueMak · Jun 20, 2007, 03:53 AM

The search doesn't work for me anymore.

***craig5320*** · Jun 20, 2007, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

The search doesn't work for me anymore.

The Search is functioning fine for me, is anyone else having issues? and on which browsers?

Thanks

BlueMak · Jun 20, 2007, 04:22 AM

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Originally Posted by craig5320

The Search is functioning fine for me, is anyone else having issues? and on which browsers?

Thanks

Hmm, it works now.
Opera 9.21

***Zardon*** · Jun 20, 2007, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by BlueMak

Hmm, it works now.
Opera 9.21

It always did mate, search will only initialise once the page has fully stopped loading, ive seen it on opera myself. it looks like its not working but opera wont let it run until whatever page you are in has fully loaded. We have been noticing some misc. site speed issues this morning so its probably due to that.

BlueMak · Jun 20, 2007, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Zardon

It always did mate, search will only initialise once the page has fully stopped loading, ive seen it on opera myself. it looks like its not working but opera wont let it run until whatever page you are in has fully loaded. We have been noticing some misc. site speed issues this morning so its probably due to that.

Sounds about right.

Mousey · Jun 20, 2007, 04:55 PM

Don't get me wrong i do like the skin, but when it comes to reading large pages of writing i nearly had to go lie down my head was spinning, i'm sticking with techheaven

pj 2.0 · Jul 2, 2007, 02:44 AM

that's why we pay intel to make processors, not decorate our houses [otherwise that creepy guy with 3 toes and some iron clad driving gloves on over there ---> would be sitting in our living rooms on the mantle]

**kris23** · Jul 2, 2007, 12:39 PM

where did it go? my default went back to techeaven.....

***Zardon*** · Jul 2, 2007, 12:57 PM

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Originally Posted by kris23

where did it go? my default went back to techeaven.....

It was only up for a specific period of time. it was an advertising skin, not a standard DH skin

BlueMak · Jul 2, 2007, 01:38 PM

I miss it.

Robert McClelland · Jul 2, 2007, 11:27 PM

I like this white one better as defult looks good better then black one.

**ChaosMinionX** · Jul 3, 2007, 12:15 AM

Thank god its gone, it was raping my eyes

Techeaven is easy on the eyes, the black disoriented me on the forum page and couldnt find what I was looking for haha.