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Originally Posted by Monkey
So any time soon are you going to link directly to this board when clicking the Message Board on the side menu?
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Guess what I just did? 
Go to the main website, and do a forced refresh (Shift-F5) in your browser. I updated the menu. I could not just fix the link on the old one, because as I said, I lost the source to the old menu in a drive crash awhile back. I had to recreate it from scratch.
A few notes about the change in main site menu:
- Changed the font. The old one was boring old Arial, but in italics. The new font is one called "Microsoft YaHei". I'd never heard of it before, but I liked the way it looked in my tests.
- The color of the font is exactly the same as the old one. I used a color picker, and matched the exact hex code.
- I renamed a few things. "Band Personnel" is now "The Band". "Pictures" is now "Photo Gallery", "Message Boards" is now "Forums".
- I dropped FAQ from the menu, and moved it down under "Other Stuff". Wanted one less menu item to make things look less squashed.
- The Forums link now goes to the right place. I'll be removing the old ubb.threads installation shortly. It's still there, there's no need to keep it anymore.
I had to keep the exact same size in the .swf file that is the menu. If I did not, it would require changing the reference to the menu file in hundreds of html pages. Yeah, I could use a search and replace, but I'd still have to verify nothing blew up, and I don't have time for all of that. Just made the new one, and uploaded it over top of the old menu.
I'll also sync up the text changes mentioned above in the menu with the menu here in the forums, too.
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