Rotating Banner

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

I find the new style rotating banner quite distracting. Is there a way to turn this off?

Thanks!
Partha

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 1:54 pm **(#2)**

Yes, you can click Board Preferences in your User Control Panel and select GimpChat2 as your style This will return you to the static default banner.

The banners are currently being rotated so everyone who worked hard to submit a banner will have their banner displayed. The plan is to modify the number, and change rate frequency, over time, keeping the best banners submitted, while rotating them less frequently. The banners should be cached by your browser, so once cached, they won't have to be reloaded, unless the cache clears.

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

GnuTux wrote:

Yes, you can click Board Preferences in your User Control Panel and select GimpChat2 as your style This will return you to the static default banner.

The banners are currently being rotated so everyone who worked hard to submit a banner will have their banner displayed. The plan is to modify the number, and change rate frequency, over time, keeping the best banners submitted, while rotating them less frequently. The banners should be cached by your browser, so once cached, they won't have to be reloaded, unless the cache clears.

Thanks GnuTux. Appreciate your feedback. I am wondering why in the static version there is no banner at all.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:54 pm **(#4)**

I'm not sure why you are not seeing the banner. I've cleared the site cache and the banner is hard coded in the GimpChat2 style..

banners/gc-site-banner.png

It's visible for me in FireFox 15.

What browser are you using and have you tried clearing your cache?

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

GnuTux wrote:

I'm not sure why you are not seeing the banner. I've cleared the site cache and the banner is hard coded in the GimpChat2 style..

http://gimpchat.com/banners/gc-site-banner.png

It's visible for me in FireFox 15.

What browser are you using and have you tried clearing your cache?

I am using Firefox nightly 64-bit version on Windows 7 64-bit. Probably something weird with this browser. It's OK in Chrome.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:23 pm **(#6)**

In GimpChat2 style, I had just changed the vector index in the random banner javascript code to a constant. Maybe your Firefox is still blocking that script.

I've now pulled the static banner out of javascript and coded it static in PHP. Clear your browser cache and give it another try in Firefox. It's now loaded from here..

styles/GimpChat2/imageset/sitelogo-gcnew7.png

b10h4z4rd · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:50 pm **(#7)**

It's working ok using IE9.

Odinbc · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:24 pm **(#8)**

partha wrote:

GnuTux wrote:

I'm not sure why you are not seeing the banner. I've cleared the site cache and the banner is hard coded in the GimpChat2 style..

banners/gc-site-banner.png

It's visible for me in FireFox 15.

What browser are you using and have you tried clearing your cache?

I am using Firefox nightly 64-bit version on Windows 7 64-bit. Probably something weird with this browser. It's OK in Chrome.

I've had some issues with Firefox 15+, something's not right with it. Bugzilla has a bunch of posts on it.
At GC I know AdBlock Plus all of a sudden had issues with the banner. OK now.

GnuTux · **Posted:** Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:41 pm **(#9)**

Ad block probably detected the rotating banner code and assumed it was ADs, rather than banners. A case of heuristic design not working out. :hehe

partha · **Joined:** Mar 14, 2011 **Posts:** 998

GnuTux wrote:

In GimpChat2 style, I had just changed the vector index in the random banner javascript code to a constant. Maybe your Firefox is still blocking that script.

I've now pulled the static banner out of javascript and coded it static in PHP. Clear your browser cache and give it another try in Firefox. It's now loaded from here..

http://gimpchat.com/styles/GimpChat2/im ... gcnew7.png

Yep, that fixed it.

Thanks!

GnuTux · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 6:43 pm **(#11)**

partha wrote:

Yep, that fixed it.

Glad to hear that worked. :bigthup

There are currently 7 banners, rotating at 10 minute intervals, when using the default style.

2-ton · **Posted:** Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:31 pm **(#12)**

I sure would like to see each banner "signed"...their name typed in the bottom corner.

PhotoComix · **Joined:** Apr 12, 2010 **Posts:** 5870

now that i notice the banner for me is vanished with the last ff update

I still see the header with all the links but no any image

GnuTux · **Posted:** Tue Sep 18, 2012 5:05 pm **(#14)**

The rotating banner is done with javascript, Photocomix.

My guess is that a Firefox addon is blocking the rotating javascript script.

I'm using Firefox 15 and the banners rotate just fine. I also use noscript but I allow gimpchat.com & gimpscripts.com because both sites require javascript for full functionality.

To return to a single static banner, you can click Board Preferences in your User Control Panel and select GimpChat2 as your style.