h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What have I done - and all because I thought that the last "instruction" on the red icon on the yellow line was an icon on a toolbar.I dare not even mention the word in case I disappear into ether again - and I have no wish to do so before my time is really up. I jolly well paid a lot of money to some education centre to learn that. Or was I deaf. blind and totally incapacitated when I thought I learnt that? Probably. Thank you all anyway for making a senior citizen laugh and laugh. And I'm sorry if you think it is boring. This is the wonderful thing about this web site you only have to read what appeals to you - and no-one's feelings get hurt. I promise I shall try not to mention tool bar again and I shall try and get a refund from the education centre.!!They should not have accepted me as a student.

my reaction was not a feedback reaction.
just observation that after BBC suits they take over the web.

look out here come the men in grey.


advice:
never see the cup half full or half empty.
see that still something in it to drink!
count your blessing!
Keep on

* wonders if all the things Tube mentioned in http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F77636?thread=149960&post=1457940#p1457940 should be considered as a bug 8-) *

In all honesty, Ottox, I genuinely can't work out if Tube is reporting a bug - which page doesn't have the search box, the bar and so on? Call me stupid...

BTW, re that Conversation about the future removal of the PR advert, this isn't quite accurate. The PR advert will remain on Alabaster and Goo for the foreseeable future, but in the new skin design (not released yet) we have ditched the banner ad space, as it's not required now we're in the BBC.

Ah... unless you mean it not appearing in Frame-mode Forums - is that the one?

(If so we're on the case! )

Nah, wouldn't do that! Wait! You just gave me the chance? Ok, Stupid!

It's the "page not found" page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/AA42

Thanks for the other info!

Ha! Love the irony...

Jim's going to fix that. That page is hand-coded in HTML (which is why it's always in Alabaster) so he's got to slap the toolbar on manually. Shouldn't take *that* long - thanks for pointing it out.

I can live with the thing - at least we get our big h2g2 logos back!!

Although on Netscape 4 on Win2000 the top of the Goo doesn't meet the bottom of the BBCi toolbar... that doesn't look quite right, because it looks like someone's just sliced the Goo off and left a blank space (even though there's the same amount of Goo there as normal). I'd post this on the bug report forum, but I'm feeling too lazy this morning, and it's not really all that important anyway.

And St. Justin has already reported it anyway!

Can the designers shrink the big green bar in Alabaster please? It now looks huge, especially when using a 640x480 screen resolution.

Maybe you could remove the banner advert... It's never used these days and would give you space for something a bit more dynamic or thinner!

Bogie.

soweee! spur of the moment stuck it at the top of my posting decision!

Ooh, I can't wait for the new skin... Is there a release date on it yet?

Frankie

You should know better than that, Frankie.

Sorry - didn't mean to get everyone so excited. THe Italics have told me *on-site* that there'll be one soon - but remember that we have a functioning community - anything new is a *bonus*, so live each day as it comes.

Whoami?

Also, I have asked for the baner ads to be used as adspace for h2g2 events - everyone should manage - most computers now support at least SVGA (800*600) resolution. Perhaps the BBCi bar also should say 'Search BBCi' to distinguish it from 'search h2g2'...

Whoami?

Ah, but the BBC don't want that, they want h2g2 part of BBCi (which it is). And Mark did say that the BBCi search will cover h2g2 as well as soon as they get h2g2 exporting compatible indexes, or something like that (it made sense at the time). Perhaps the wiser choice (and more likely to happen) would be to change h2g2's search button to say "Search h2g2"

It only says 'search' on my bar, or have I missed something?

Yep - You have 2 search boxes, one that says 'Search h2g2' not on the BBCi bar, and a general BBCi Search box.

My not-BBCi one just says "Search". Are you using Alabaster?

OK - I'm busted. I am using Alab*ster. It's tidier and loads more quickly, and is easier on the eyes when subbing, but it ain't so pretty.

Whoami?