DG Site Updates: DG Has a New Look (con't), 2 by Kaelkitty

Kaelkitty wrote:
RE: Windows 8 Not happening on this computer! (I Have an old Dell built in 2006 and purchased reconditioned in 2009) To be fair to Microsoft, Windows 8 has been designed to accommodate smart phone and tablets and it is very much orientated to touch screen devices - this is the new "front end" mentioned by JBerger above. I believe it is not "buggy" as such, it is the large changes in the WAY things are done that has put so many computer users off-side. I know how this feels as I was completely lost for months when I got dragged kicking and screaming from XP to Vista when I updated to this computer in 2009. Vista is still supported by Microsoft so I probably won't change anything until this computer drops dead!

Having said that, I am currently using Firefox 22.0, which is the most up to date version, and Vista copes with it just fine. I don't use any other browser and I never have so I can't comment on IE or Chrome.

My issues are much more with the changes to the "look and feel" of Dave's Garden itself.

1/ I truly HATE the orange bar which appears in various places above menus and journal categories - to my eyesight it stands out so much that it affects my ability to concentrate on what I am trying to read beneath it. I much preferred the old suite of dark blue, green, purple etc as they were not intrusive.

2/ You say you have fixed the Journal search but it used to appear wherever you were in your journal so you could
go quickly from Category to searching, now you have to back out to the top of your journal and start all over - by the time I have done this I have usually lost my train of thought!

3/ I also need the Number/Images column back when I am in a Category - without that I find my Journal difficult to use as I often sort by the number as that gives me my chronological order of input.

4/ Something wonky is going on with the unvisited/visited link colours - I am getting Purple for visited and Green for unvisited - I can't remember what it was before but it is disconcerting and uncomfortable now - I am not sure whether I can adjust that myself or not?

Anyway, that's all I can think of for now,

Ciao, KK.