Although a lot of progress has been made there are still numerous issues with both the forums and the main page in regards to theme. What follows is a list of issues I'm aware of:

- "Read More" Image on newspage crashes Internet Explorer 6 (unsure about other versions).
- Cell padding and cell spacing inconsistent between main site and forums.
- HL 2 background image should be a .png, centered and faded along edges.
- Fragtard.net logo needs to be separated from background image and float on it's own.
- Fragtard.net logo needs a slight edge glow for dark background images.
- Transparent border needs to be added to forums and forum cells.
- Forum font color issues still remain (such as dk grey text in input box upon login).
- All input boxes should be white w/ black text.
- Forum category and topic images need to be completed.
- Forum Topic Icons need to be replaced with better smilies, the default sux.
- Rank images are missing. (fixed)
- Forum Header needs to brought into the "Board Index" area.
- Board Index code needs to be altered to read Fragtard.net Forum Index.
- Forum requires a Quick Reply Option.
- Ad YouTube and GoogleVideo embed options. (done)

...if you run across an issue I've missed, please post it here along with the url you noticed the issue, your browser and browser version.

Thanks.

No problems with this in IE 7

I must say the site is incredibly slow for me for some reason, as I'm typing now the text lags like a second behind my typing...
Other then that the site looks really cool.

Can you do me a favor and try to reply to a topic or create a new one in Firefox? I'm pretty sure the lag in IE is due to IE's terrible support of transparencies so the additional code required (alpha image loader) is what's slowing things down.

Assuming this is the case I may have to look into using an opague .gif image background and alter it's transparency settings via .css, hopefully IE will render it properly.

looks like you're right, no probs in firefox.

Personally I wouldn't mind getting rid of some of the transparancy all together, esp the homepage becomes somewhat hard to read at places.

The problem with eliminating the transparency is it negates the reason for a background image and if possible, I'd eventually like to have a few themes with alternate background images to choose from.

The current translucency level is really just for testing purposes and can be made darker/lighter if required. I agree that it should be darkened up a bit so I'll get on that shortly.

Just so you know NT, a friend of mine told me that it's pr0lly in my best interests to drop support for Internet Explorer 6 and less because most gamers will have updated versions by now.

I'll update my IE at home and do some testing removing the alpha image loader code as well as do some testing with .gif transparency (via .css) to see if that helps with the cursor lag.

Anyway, just thought I'd let you know.

Sounds logical. As far as I know my IE auto updated to 7, so I guess that goes for most people.
I hope you can fix the lag problem (not only cursor, but also scrolling and generally slow loading of pages), since I presume a majority of the public is using IE. It would be nice if you could do that while preserving the current look. I do like the visual aspect, as long as it doesn't impair functionality.

OK I just installed IE7 and the lag is terrible as you said. Since I have to complete the header in the forums (I think the View unanswered posts | View active topics bar should be part of the private message and last activity bar) I'll comment out all the alpha image loader code and see what happens.

If it does work out that the theme is still fully functional without this code but lag is gone, I'll put up an announcement bar stating we only support browsers such as Firefox, Opera and IE7+.

Thanks for the heads up NT.

OK I've commented out all the alpha image loader code so let me know if it's a bit better in IE.

Thanks.

hmm, the cursor lag is gone now, although the cursor itself blinks pretty weird now, but I at least can type decently.
The downside seems to be that the pages now load and scroll horribly slow, way slower then before. It takes 2-3 seconds for the visible part on screen to load, and as soon as I scroll it happens all over again.

IE
Just when you think you're making progress you find out you've only regressed.

Now that I've removed the alpha image loader code it should leave me free to add a faint overall background (the same as on the index page). If this works I can then delete at least one layer of transparency in the forums which will hopefully speed up scrolling in IE.

IE may also be having an issue with the table background repeat x value (this is pr0lly why many webmasters still bitch about IE and transparency support) so I'll adjust the table backgrounds to be static (such as 23 x 800) which should hopefully help out with some of the page rendering issues.

As for the cursor going nuts, I'll have to check because I don't even have a clue where to begin on this one. I wonder if it's as simple as adding IE specific code telling the cursor how fast to blink?

I just installed internet explorer 8, and the site is smooth as silk now.
I guess IE8 supports stuff that IE7 didn't