1. The new IM system is ok, but PLEASE, oh please oh please, change the color of the IM "you have x messages" and the icon from green to red. For non color-blind people, red is more attention getting. It says "HELLO! I AM NEW! CLICK ON ME!" and green says "Oooh.. I am just this thing chilling on the top of the page. Please notice me when you get a chance." I have missed several IMs for more than a day because green just is.. well.. not attention-getting.

2. Please change the forum software so that http://blah blah blah is automatically changed into a hyperlink INSIDE of the message text.

3. This web site barely works with Opera, my browser of choice. I cannot download purchases using Opera, nor can I update my product pages. Opera translates the suffix ".ez" into ASCII text, so you when you click on the download button, all you get is a screenfull of high-bit ASCII junk and it tries to save it as productname.ez.

4. Please let us edit our own posts.

5. Please let us have a "signature box" that is automatically appended to each of our posts. Restrict the content if you like (disallow images, etc), but I would like to sign all my posts with my web site URL and my name, at the very least, without writing each post in HTML.

6. Please let me use style="blahblah" tags in my HTML posts. It doesn't hurt anything, I promise.

OK. That's it. Thanks, etc. ;)

6. Please let me use style="blahblah" tags in my HTML posts. It doesn't hurt anything, I promise. Hehe, not a good idea. I can hurt someone with a style tag. ;P But the rest sounds very good (I use Opera too and a signature would be really cool).

well, you COULD technically hurt someone with style tags, I guess, but no more than you can with standard HTML. ;)

The dangerous bit is the sharp pointy brackets on the ends =) Post editing, styles, and signature boxes all get my vote.

Try something like this (or better not).

I use that for print css pages all the time. ;) It's too bad that the standard was changed to allow for inline styles to have the greatest specificity. =/ I can see where it would be harmful now. It used to be you could override any inline style with an @import stylesheet, but alas, those golden days are gone. I mostly wanted to be able to use fonts without using that garish font-face tag. ;)

(btw, i haven't used a table for layout on any web site of mine for hmm.. two years or so. ;)

As a young bitpusher I did some website coding and administration. Thats a really thankless job. :PPP

I'm very new here. So before I state a suggestion, may I ask is there an option to bookmark any of the pages locally? The database here is massive. There are already many advice, merchant, gallery, and forum pages I would like to bookmark and access from anywhere, via the site.
If not, then it would be something to consider when thinking in terms of optimizing functionality and convenience for members.

Thank you for letting me bump your post. ;)

Xavai

Yes .. the edit feature is so nice in times like these when you've posted and THEN realize these posts don't 'bump'. LoL Xavai

In addition, I'd REALLY like to see click-buttons to insert tags like bold, italic, etc. in the text of a post, like they have over at 3D-Arena. Having to do all that manually every time you make a post is a major paininnabutt!!! That, along with the ability to EDIT posts, should be at the top of the list!

If you're allowed to edit posts, then the thread could change substantially. If you've said it, you've said it. Edit BEFORE you hit the "Post Reply" button. Just my 2 Cents.

Yes, but often i have "said it" without, say, attaching the image I meant to put in, or with a typo, or a misspelled URL. Deleting the post and reposting is the only option.

Try previewing the post with the "Preveiw Post" button. That's what it's there for so you can see if it's OK.