Yeah my adblock is up too. Though enabling ads for OCR won't make more inclined to click them if that's what djp is thinking of. ;)

The grey borders on the front page are a good idea, but they are a bit too dark to fit wit the rest of the page imo. The white areas aren't even on the bottom of the darker grey box, either. Making them even on the right side would help.

I've gone ahead and done this, although in my opinion the uneven floating had substantial benefit for users at 1600x1200 and above. Ultimately, there's far more of you at 1024x768 and 1280x1024, so perhaps the visual "evenness" in this instance is more important.

I'll continue to make tweaks, but the dark grey employed matches the grey in the site header, and in my opinion the contrast really helps visually separate different types of information on a page.

As for those complaining about grey space because they're using adblock... I'm never going to design for adblock users. Also, even if you don't click them and never will, simply viewing them helps out statistically. Furthermore, I've already promised never to re-enable pop-ups, and am working towards getting more relevant ads on the site and getting rid of the ringtone crap. I'd really prefer you disable adblock when browsing the site; it helps me, it helps OCR, and it prevents confusion when you're not seeing what most everyone else is and you then complain about grayspace that I'm not seeing (yes, there's legit grayspace elsewhere, but in this instance it seems like the adblock was the primary culprit).

On a sidenote: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ww...Inline&group=0

Looking better now. I don't have an adblocker, but I was having some issues with IE displaying the front page properly earlier this morning: certain links like Announcements would be covered by gray areas, but upon mouseover, the links would appear. Seems to be fixed now, though.

Looking fine in Firefox on mac. Doesn't look as good in Safari. Dunno how many Safari users there are that visit OCR so I don't know if it'd be worth it to fix it unless it can be done easily.

Here's how it looks to me.

Nooo they be stealin' mah vertical space! :[

I talked to richter about this and he suggested enabling the uneven floating only if the user's screen size is detected to be higher 1600x1200 or higher. Seems slightly ghetto, but sounds like it would work.

Grats! I didn't know it didn't validate before.

Now you just gotta work on your CSS. ;)

I really like the new borders on the front page, but I agree that they're just a bit too dark. I feel they would fit more if there were a bit lighter shade.

Really nice design change. Good idea!

I think what happens is that AdBlock Plus loads the ads, but doesn't display them. This effectively allows the ad to report that it was seen even though it technically wasn't.

Anybody notice the virt ads? I click on those every time. :D