Hi everyone, I agree with everything Nikki has said here in this discussion she's started on members favorite photos, videos, music, books etc. Many people love to share some of their photos, and maybe music and videos and books too, and it's a great way for members to get to know each other a lot better and develop friendships. My only "complaint' about this is that I don't have more time to view, listen and watch :) And I agree that embedding videos posted onto youtube is a good way to go. Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Hi Raul, Re the blog home page, elsewhere I've seen the first half dozen or so lines of each blog entry displayed in addition to the title of the entry, eg see Nikki's home page on Planet Cancer at the link she's given in another post on this thread http://myplanet.planetcancer.org/profile/nikki This gives the blogger a chance to catch the eye of potential readers who might not otherwise visit the full blog entry, and potential readers a chance to assess whether it's a blog entry they may be interested in reading. I wonder if in our metric age "dozen" is fading from the language. "Fifteen to the dozen", "a baker's dozen", etc. Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Thanks Raul - good to hear - I thought I'd better check before promoting the site on the internet as an Australia-wide community 🙂 Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Raul hi, In regard to "we are also in the process of working closer with the online support services of Victoria and looking into reaching other states too" - are you encouraging people from all over Australia to join Cancer Connections at this stage or only those from NSW? Cheers, Ed. ... View more

I really like the "Our community Recently active community members" on the bottom of each page of Cancer Connections. This brings real people who are part of the Cancer Connections community onto every page of the site. I also like the groovy "your virtual face or picture" images one can choose when one is joining the community. Having those available for new members to select makes it really easy for people registering to choose an image quickly, and they can replace it with a photo of their choosing from their own computer at a later date if they wish. And on a lighter note, I haven't looked this cool for more years than I'd care to remember! Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Hi Raul, Yes the new darker gray definitely makes it easier to read and for longer periods 🙂 That was really my chief concern, the orange being a secondary issue. I understand now about why the orange is there. Sounds like it would be best to stay with the orange and in the future it can always be changed if someone comes up with a suitable modification. A good thing about using orange is that it goes well with the blues in the pages whereas as you say there would be issues with using blue in place of orange. I hope others will post their opinions if they feel there are any eye or colour issues for them - we all have our preferences and I'm but one of the users. Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Raul and everyone hi, My impression is that the website generally, including the forum, is beautifully set out - spacious, not cluttered, easy to find items on the pages. It's a work of art! And I really like the font - I don't know what its name is as I don't seem to have one that matches it on my computer (by font I mean eg "Times New Roman" - I hope that's what the term font means to readers of this post). It's probably better than ANY font I have on my computer. It just needs darkening. I only have experience with simple webpage construction and free webpage editors such as Netscape Composer (and have never buit any website as complex as Cancer Connections). I'm not familiar with photoshop. The free webpage editors I use have facilities to choose the font colour from a rainbow spectrum, so I imagine photoshop has similar text colour selection. My suggestion to to experiment with dark navy blue or purple - something of that nature, or simply a darker version of the colour you are currently using. My feeling is that orange should be replaced as a text colour throughout the website, even if it's the team's favourite colour. It simply isn't dark enough against the pale background and I doubt if it can be made so, not for text anyway - it's not a colour that stands out sufficiently to the eye. I would replace it with a dark colour somewhere between dark blue, dark electric blue, dark navy blue or you could go round towards magenta, but not greens or reds or yellows. I test out text colours in an experimental file I open just for that purpose - I type or copy some text into it and then set the font to whatever I want my text font to be eg Arial and try out different colours, and when I find one that looks suitable I get the code for that colour by viewing the source code for the page. I emphasise again that I think the website including the forum is beautifully composed - I don't think you'll be needing to make many changes somehow :) These are my suggestions anyway. Cheers, Ed. ... View more

Hi Misti, I don't know the answer but here's a suggestion. Go to Profile/Personal info/About me and make a change to your About me, and click on Save. Then log out, go to the home page and log in and click on People at the top of the home page. On the new page that displays you should see among other things your "About me". If the change you made to your About me was successfully saved it should appear there. When I followed that sequence of events (at about 620am Thursday 19th Adelaide time) the change I made was successfully saved. Totocol will have a much better understanding of whether there's a problem and what the cause may be than I do. Cheers, Ed. ... View more

My preference would be for darker text in the forums and throughout the site - it's by a considerable margin too pale for my eyes. And the orange-colored text in the forums is also too pale for my eyes - I'd like to see a darker color used. If you have an opinion about text and font-related matters relating to Cancer Connections please do post it so we can (maybe) get a consensus. In today's world we need everything going for our eyes as they need to to an immense amount of reading and other close-in work over the course of our lives. I like the size of the text on the forums and throughout the site - I find it quite easy to read. Cheers, Ed. ... View more