We are moving the UK Piano Page

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 24 Nov 2006, 22:54

The UK Piano Page is moving to a new server and ISP. As it is our 10th birthday this year we are giving the UK Piano Page a new look at the same time. The move will take place on Sunday 26th so there may be some outage on the forum most will see the change over as a none event, depending on your ISPs DNS servers. If on Monday you find you can not access the site pleases use www.uk-piano.co.uk most DNS servers should be updated with in 48 hours.

www.uk-piano.co.uk will after a week send you to www.uk-piano.org so don’t bother bookmaking it

Barrie,

PianoGuy · Post by **PianoGuy** » 28 Nov 2006, 23:38

Am liking the suffusion of yellow, Barrie!

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 29 Nov 2006, 00:06

Some think it is a bit hard on the eyes

Barrie,

Geminoz · Post by **Geminoz** » 29 Nov 2006, 13:05

What yellow: I got red, white and blue...white page with red, blue and grey boxes and print.....is there something wrong with my pc?

And the white page is hard on my eyes Barrie

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 29 Nov 2006, 15:04

Geminoz wrote:What yellow: I got red, white and blue...white page with red, blue and grey boxes and print.....is there something wrong with my pc?
And the white page is hard on my eyes Barrie

The background is #FFFF99 light yellow You must have a not so good graphics card as that colour is a web safe one part of the 256 colour range.

or Or are we a tad colour blind

Black on Yellow… is so they say the best colour to read form

work calls

Barrie,

Post by **Gill the Piano** » 29 Nov 2006, 17:39

I see red white and blue as well. I thought we were being patriotic...

Perhaps I drink too much good beer. Or not enough...

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 29 Nov 2006, 18:58

Gill the Piano wrote:I see red white and blue as well. I thought we were being patriotic... Perhaps I drink too much good beer. Or not enough...

it is a very light yellow I see it my son see it but my daughter see it as white.

We have 5 computers at home and it is different shade on all of them, if you look at the ABPT logo that is white

Barrie,

Geminoz · Post by **Geminoz** » 01 Dec 2006, 13:43

I tried all the colour resolutions that are at my disposal and it is white on all of them...

Colour Blind?...nooooooo

Post by **Gill the Piano** » 01 Dec 2006, 18:33

Well whatever colour it is, I like it. And I prefer the new typeface as well. Well done Barry; you do us proud!

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 01 Dec 2006, 22:28

Gill the Piano wrote:Well whatever colour it is, I like it. And I prefer the new typeface as well. Well done Barry; you do us proud!

We aim to please some times

What do you think of Britannia in her Christmas outfit you should see the summer one

Barrie,

Geminoz · Post by **Geminoz** » 02 Dec 2006, 14:13

She looks very festive

Are we to expect a bikini for summer?

fumbler · Post by **fumbler** » 02 Dec 2006, 23:10

Hi,

A background of #FFFF99 does indeed show as a rather bright custardy yellow on my PC, but not on the ukpiano forums. I don't seem to have loaded the ukpiano.css file, so that's possibly where the problem is.

Also the text of the posts is the horrible Times New Roman, instead of the lovely Verdana (or whatever it should be). Rather strangely the text shown when I reply to posts, and the quoted text, appears as Verdana. Something strange is happening.

Rgds.

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 03 Dec 2006, 01:25

fumbler wrote:Hi,

A background of #FFFF99 does indeed show as a rather bright custardy yellow on my PC, but not on the ukpiano forums. I don't seem to have loaded the ukpiano.css file, so that's possibly where the problem is.

Also the text of the posts is the horrible Times New Roman, instead of the lovely Verdana (or whatever it should be). Rather strangely the text shown when I reply to posts, and the quoted text, appears as Verdana. Something strange is happening.

Rgds.

The main text of the site is
arial, helvetica, sans-serif
tahoma, Verdana

on the forurms
Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif;

quoted text is
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

Your browser will take the first in the list then work its way down the list to find a fount if you have none of them on your computer it defaults to your browser defaults
However, most computers have Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MACs well they have Arial

I have put the full url in for the css see if that helps Your browser must be defaulting to Times the yellow should not be bright but a faint yellow

Barrie,

fumbler · Post by **fumbler** » 03 Dec 2006, 10:44

Hi,

Thanks for the reply Barrie. I'm sure you're right about the fonts, I guessed at Verdana and TNR (I think that fonts look better when they are common over a page, forum and quoted text, and I'm no fan of Courier!).

I have loaded the css file now, but the forums still disply the same. Not a trace of yellow anywhere. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough to sort out why some are seeing yellow and others not.

Rgds.

Post by **Barrie Heaton** » 03 Dec 2006, 21:36

On the forum the background in the text areas is grey two shades on the site as a hole the founts are the same. what ever the default is in your browser. But on the forum pianos for sale and parts of the list of teacher tuners ect they do have selected founts so items will line up

You can override css on your browser see
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/ie_css.html

Barrie,

Geminoz · Post by **Geminoz** » 04 Dec 2006, 12:15

Well, no matter Barrie, it all looks very neat and tidy regardless of the colour and as Gil says, you have done a great job.
We are lucky to have such a great piano site....so again thank you!!

PianoGuy · Post by **PianoGuy** » 04 Dec 2006, 21:59

It's yellow on a proper computer.