It's more prominent, and just overall better. Maybe the crate could use a tex though. And maybe a little 'slogan' or something below func_ "Mapping community" or somesuch.

For BG image, maybe something that epitomizes mapping or is more obvious. 

i like the title image too. I think the small crate would be better left unskinned. I agree that 2 crates in the image is too much, but I don't think any sort of mapping grid background picture would be very good, its so cliched. It might need a 'slogan' or something as Phait said; more precisely: something that describes the purpose of the board, as currently it's not immediately obvious to first-time visitors.

Visually, i think there needs to be some seperation between the "News / Forum / People.. thing and the main content of the title graphic. Maybe a black bar running along the bottom of the image, which the crate could overlap slightly. As it stands, where the menu bar and the graphic meets, it looks a little messy.

Just a few thoughts, I'm impressed with it though. 

Crate there makes me wish the logo bit had a random icon put up there... just the cool ones... crate, cheese, pig, pimp hat, some of the game icons. would be alot of work I know, but it's a nice idea. 

I wrote a PHP script that pulls a random quote out of a .txt file - one quote per line. Just put an image tag per line and it'll grab it. 

Creating all of the high-res icons is still work. Though, i've sort of considered it :P 

If you really want a set, a specific amount, I'll happily design them. I need a break from the PHP learning/work I've been doing. 

We would have to include the Neutral emoticon so we can accurately express the melancholic state that our anti-social user base tries so hard to repress. 

I had a title with exactly 70 characters, and Func still complained when I tried to submit it. 

The post icon counts as a character. 

But not all the post icons are mere characters; some are emoticons, and emoticons are actually 2 characters at minimum. Since that is true, the message should be something more like "Title cannot be more than 70 characters, or 69 depending on which post icon you use." 

Creating all of the high-res icons is still work. Though, i've sort of considered it :P

What's wrong with just scaling them up with width and height in the html, like on the front news page? It has a nice retro-gamey kind of style that suits this board well.

I think a site update tracker would probably be more worth the time though. 

does that mean you got past the javascript, but the following page popped up an error message in red? 

That is correct. 

clicking on a thread
white screen say
SQL error

http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=29791&start=15 

that URL works for me. Can you give me more information about how you made the error happen? 

i can't repeat it, so it's probably not a real bug i guess. But if it helps, i'm running XP SP 2 with Firefox 1.0 

The forum was down during the last 4 hours !!!! metlslime, go write this insult letter to the provider... hurry up !! 

Chill, it's not the end of the world when a site goes down for a few hours... -___- 

I agree, but since the server change, the site is down many times per week now, for many hours most often... and many much more time than it was before (with the previous server...) so WTF with this new provider ? 

Yes, my point is, I'm sure it bothers Metlslime enough that he doesn't also need people on the board complaining about it all the time.
This may be a public forum, but that doesn't mean it owes you anything, Metlslime can do whatever he wants with it. 

I know... metlslime is certainly bored with us (i.e. the "complaining guys...") :P .. But it's rather disappointing not to be able to connect to the forum many hours/mornings in a week... 8( .. Shame on the provider...
So now I really think metlslime have to write this letter he planned to write a few weeks ago...
Anyway... you have to admit the forum is less stable than it was before the server/provider change... end of the story... ;P 

You are a func_msgboard junky!

Nothing wrong with that, of course. Just thought I would throw that accusation out there. Now let us go back to the main menu and hit F5 every ten minutes ;) 

You're right, I need my "Func-dope-dose" every day :D 

was this 4 hour outage the only one in the last couple weeks? I haven't been online for the past 4-5 days, but before that it seemed that the uptime was much more stable after the server upgrade a few weeks ago. 

Have had very little downtime in the last week or so myself, definatly seems more stable.