Is it time to update www.letsrun.com

It's called mid-nineties retro. Very cool.

But have you noticed the banner ads though? State of the art design and technology with those bad boys.

I'm not sure the site is using old technology, more so as it has an "old" design according to your eyes. Not everything needs to be put into a useless web 2.0 design. While letsrun's design is not the prettiest, it is very functional. and that speaks volumes!

The message board should be left as it is, but the main introduction page is a great big pile of shit. Is a little bit of basic visual hierarchy too much to ask for?

You people can't find enough shit to bitch about can you.

Why do you people have to bitch about people who can't find enough shit to bitch about?

Why do you people have to bitch about people bitching about people who can't find enough shit to bitch about?

this is not functional or retro. simply old technology, limited functionality and crappy looks.

that being said, I created a letsrun.com/forum visual style a while back for use with stylish or greasemonkey. It makes things a little more contrasted and easier on the eyes, and has rollover for the links. However, it is limited by the (gasp) table layouts that the forum uses, so it is not as much of a rewrite as I hoped.

http://userstyles.org/styles/1517

lots of miles wrote:

that being said, I created a letsrun.com/forum visual style a while back for use with stylish or greasemonkey. It makes things a little more contrasted and easier on the eyes, and has rollover for the links. However, it is limited by the (gasp) table layouts that the forum uses, so it is not as much of a rewrite as I hoped.

http://userstyles.org/styles/1517

I'm a runner not a geek with dual pocket protectors and a sliderule hanging off my belt. Type the words hit the button read the insults that follow. It is simple now. If I wanted a stylish greasemonkey I'd go down and look around the Ferrari dealership.

WTF is all this stuff??

A quickly made letsrun forum style to clean up just a tad. Please make additions and upload, if you have the means to sift through the crazy DOM for the site. This is basically a copy of what little styling there was in the html, and a really quick change of a few things. I left ads on to support the site.

I will have more time to perfect after finals.

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@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://letsrun.com/forum), url-prefix(http://www.letsrun.com/forum) {

BODY {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ! important;

font-size: 10pt;

color : black;

background: white;

}

A:link{

color: #36393D ! important;

font-weight: bold ! important;

}

A:visited{

color: #36393D ! important;

}

A:hover {

color : #FF7400 ! important;

}

/* main font of posts */

.BaseFont {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ! important;

font-size: 10pt ! important;

color: #36393D ! important;

}

/* font of date of posts, a few other things*/

.SmallFont {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ! important;

font-size: 8pt ! important;

color: #36393D ! important;

}

/* color of reply bar when posts are quoted*/

hr {

color : #C3D9FF;

}

.ForumFlag {

color: #4096EE ! important;

font-weight: bold;

}

/* color of tool with toggle, new posts, page, etc at top of index page. font color willbe overriden by links*/

.BoardTool {

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ! important;

background-color: #FFFFFF ! important;

padding: 2px ! important;

font-size: 8pt ! important;

}

.BoardTool td{

width: 300px ! important;

}

/* color of left hand side block in table posts also color of Subject/author block on main page*/

.ForumHeader {

background : #C3D9FF ! important;

}

.ForumTable2 {

background-color: #FFFFFF ! important;

padding: 2px ! important;

}

.ForumTable1 {

background-color: #EEEEEE ! important;

padding: 2px ! important;

}

Font {

font-size: 8pt ! important;

color: #36393D ! important;

font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif ! important;

}

}Install options

Install Stylish for Firefox, Thunderbird, Flock, Mozilla Suite, SeaMonkey, or Songbird. If you have Stylish already, make sure you're using the latest version and have JavaScript enabled.

Load into Stylish - load into the Stylish extension where you can preview and save it.

Update in Stylish - this style has been updated since you installed it in Stylish.

Load as user script - Greasemonkey and Opera users can load this style as a user script.

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Nice idea, for about the 45th time in the past year alone.

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Nice idea, for about the 45th time in the past year alone.

Someone just got pawned!

What is the miracle new technology you are looking for? Bandwidth sucking stupid avatars? Scroll-forcing signatures like:

06 Adizeros, 07 Streak XCs, 06 H Streets

15:30 | 32:00 | 1:15 | 2:42

When life gets hard, run harder, oh yeah

That you can read 50 times in a thread?

Or better yet, big stupid graphics in the signature, where you put a collage of your favorite shoe overlaid on some busty woman?

The only thing is that a better search function would be nice. Otherwise, I say leave what works alone.

I suppose you run Vista because it's newer?

NO NO NO

Don't chnge a thing. It's very very functional, doesn't have a bunch of streaming crap all over the place, the simplicity of the site is part of it's alure- not unlike running.

To sum up the code you posted...

It makes things blue with better contrast and an orange rollover so you know which thread you are clicking on. It also adds extra space around the thread titles so they are readable. Lastly, the font is changed.

yeah. the stuff the dude changed with stylish actually looks awesome, instead of the original plan of letsrun...which was evidently "let's make a website in the color of excrement."