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John H
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Check out our new site layout

A few warnings first.

1- Login doesnt work atm, but the scripts are done, we just need to make it so you can do stuff when logged in

2- None of the links work, we just wanna see how you like the site.

3- The repeating textures are being fixed right now

The big question here is

DO YOU LIKE THE LAYOUT!!!

What do you like, what dont you like. What should be changed, what should be kept? We need your opinions!

Thanks

RPGamer


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Pincho Paxton
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Wow I like it!

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David T
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Just wondering, do you have a game to go with it yet?

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 01:02 Edited at: 10th Jul 2004 01:32
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What in the...?
Fire whoever the hell did that ugly layout.

EDIT: oh wait...

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Hoss
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I like the layout

Megaton, it says that you designed the site at the bottom, I'm confused...

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Hamish McHaggis
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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 01:29 Edited at: 10th Jul 2004 01:31
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I like it. Nice and RPG-like. The only thing i'd say is move the drop down menus below the main menu buttons, otherwise they get in the way of the other buttons.

EDIT

Also, the left column section is too wide in my opinion.

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actarus
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I like it.

While I don't know if it's temporary or not,you don't have to explain how to surf the website on the frontpage(hopefully )

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Megaton Cat
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It's just placeholder text. (I think)

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David T
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Megaton, it says that you designed the site at the bottom, I'm confused...


Its a joke

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I tried to change the menu, but the script isnt agreeing with me

Thanks for the comments guys, keep em coming


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That's a really good site, it looks like a pirate ship kinda.

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 01:53 Edited at: 10th Jul 2004 01:53
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arr!
Rob's sure to like it then.

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Jeku
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Wow, it actually works in Firefox. Good work, guys

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*cough*

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now for us to get down the nitty gritty (aka PHP / MySQL)

*takes out gloves

here we go

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It all looks great ... except for the drop-down menus. They just don't have the same styling

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Any suggestions on how they should look Ian? Something didnt quit mix with them, but I wasnt sure what. Any ideas?


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I thought you were doing a flash site.
Site looks cool.

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 07:17 Edited at: 10th Jul 2004 07:18
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I like all of it except...

-The big image at the top is just a bit too simplistic... a polygonal guy, ship, water & sun doesn't hold much, er, drama; 'oomph'. For examples of title images that do have 'oomph', here's an RPG sites--

http://www.elderscrolls.com/index.php

Now obviously you don't have tens of thousands of $ worth of artists bought by the major media company backing you on your team , and I think you're all doing a fantastic job with what you've got; I just think that a bit more 'action' or perhaps even just more stuff in the image would really help it feel more... engaging.

Congrats .


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rpgamer made that banner...maybe once he releases a demo, we can put in some in-game action.

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Wow, Big improvement over the old one, and it will give a nice polished representation for your game.

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I'm currently redoing the whole thing to prevent the background texture repeating in the table, the few border hicups at the top, and generally reduce the amount of images.

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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 11:29
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I prefer the old DBG layout to be honest... oh wait, yeah, this is cool for ED.


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Very inspirational. Now let's see the game that inspired it all


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Posted: 10th Jul 2004 11:37 Edited at: 10th Jul 2004 11:40
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Exeat:
Er...what?

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HZence - Ya thats whats next in our 'to-do' list xD


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I have a suggestion:
I can't code, but I have an idea:
Go over the buttons, and a scroll drops out beneath it, the exact same length as the button
Make the latest screenshot just a little bit bigger, because I can't see much of it.
Right under "Recent News And Updates", there seems something a little bit strange with the bar beneath it imho...maybe just take the bar off

Really sorry to be so critical...just trying to help, please don't take this as an insult, just friendly advice

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Sorry I took so long to answer ...

The drop-downs are just a completely different style from the rest of the page. If they had a wooden backing they would fit in much better than they do now.

You probably want to disguise the grey login buttons too somehow.

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The drop downs would look much better if they were positioned in-line with the buttons, and like rob said, with a wooden texture on them. Other than that its looking great.

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Rob?!?

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Your name's Rob, isn't it?


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shhh! We don't want anyone to know that all the Mods are actually one giant blob thing...


whoops...


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Working on those dropdown menus now guys ^_^


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Damn you Flibble!! Damn you!

Just... Just shut up will you, you're giveing away all our secrets.
First it's the Aussies secret plot to be in power, now this. I mean, sheesh!

The new ED site looks good though, really nice and slick.

One suggest for the "drop-Down" menu's is to not make them drop-down at all, but something like the Macromedia site has where the sub-menu fades in in the blank space below.

All that it would require is a bit of simple JavaScripting ( or scripstealing... same thing really ) and to create a little blank space justbelow the main buttons for the fade-ins to occurr.

Just my 2c.

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Hmm might consider that idea o_O Thanks Jess


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Quote: "All that it would require is a bit of simple JavaScripting..."


Here we go again.


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Shut it Exeat.

That big red ban button is beckoning...

To all those that don't know, Exeat thinks I have a thing about Javascripting, and well, he's just a cheeky bugger. lol.

John,
Hope you get the menus sorted

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Lol, you know you do.


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Hey Exeat did you do that dude in your sig? Always meant to ask you that question lol


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Well I don't really bat for that team anymore but yes, he did me a couple times... wait, oh, you mean... well.. uhh, gee, that was embarrasing.

Lol, nah, I found it on a website somewhere, I think it's some fanart for Resident Evil - If I was that good at art, I wouldn't be programming.


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That was sick, wrong, and unneccisary


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You were the one who used the wrong terminology.

Anyway, here's the full image for you:



Now that is some very cool artwork, unfortunately I haven't been able to find any by the same author.

Edit: I take that back, I just found his/her site:

http://www3.ctktv.ne.jp/~suirokak/


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oh, that's Leon!

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Back on subject


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Nice site! My PHP could be beaten by a dead moth, so that's not saying much . About that big ModBlob theory...well...it's kind of frightening...but how did Jess get in there???

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We prefer Amoeba-mod rather than Modblob

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Sorry, Mr. Amoeba-mod. My chances of joining your ranks are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. Have a nice day.

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Jess is a really nice guy. Hes been great with the community, helping out a lot and is a great member on the forum. He deserved the mod spot in my eyes


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Either that or you just ate him and he bacame part of the "Amoeba-mod"


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