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Post by bgbirdsey »

In a way, I like the existing site, with the user generated artwork as watermarks.

The one thing that might unify it with the game would be a web interface that matched the style of the in-game menus?

The two things that you mentioned are important: ease of updating, and ability to resize.

Could use frames and load the "text" for each page as its own .html file? That would make it extremely easy to update. Having a customized style sheet might help a lot too.

To be able to resize we need to format the page using %width instead of pixels. Is it possible to write some js code to make it % if the screen is above a certain minimum resolution and pixels if below?
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Post by Cimeries »

I don't have a problem with templates, to an extent. I have a problem with really lame templates that everyone can recognize and that require you to put a link back to such and such. That really ruins our credibility as a serious project.
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Cimeries wrote:I don't have a problem with templates, to an extent. I have a problem with really lame templates that everyone can recognize and that require you to put a link back to such and such. That really ruins our credibility as a serious project.

Yeah. I agree.

I could do a website, but... only if the site HTML can be edited.
(examples :lol:)
http://deformedelephantsurgery.yolasite.com/
http://goatbishop-bm.yolasite.com/

(and there was one other site, but I don't remember the url)

...No, I'm not adversiting anything. :lol:

EDIT: And I don't know if a new SITE is wanted, but only site design? (:oops:)
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Post by Zefz »

Doesnt the subject title answer that? :P

(freaky sites btw)
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Post by woodmouse »

Zefz wrote:Doesnt the subject title answer that? :P

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I didn't read the title. I think. Or something. :lol:

Zefz wrote:(freaky sites btw)

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Post by bgbirdsey »

We could do something like this, but what would the source artwork be? Also, does it answer the core problem, which was the ability to update the site easily. Also, we have only certain web features on sourceforge.

They keep expanding them, so I'll have a look at the hosted apps and let you know.
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The only way to upload HTML files to sourceforge is being a member of the sourceforge team and doing it through SSH.

New updates could be posted through a web interface (like a blog), but new releases would still require us to update download section manually?
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Post by bgbirdsey »

I haven't had a look at the raw html files for the site, but they might be a bit hard to deal with if they are not plain text. For instance, if you make even the simplest page in MS Word, it exports a ton of style info in the file and makes almost everything very difficult to read.

The idea would be to make it as easy as possible (other than the SSH difficulties). I'm not sure what to do other than to have the page info in its own frame, which could be relatively easily edited? Then all the background artwork, etc. could be in some other files that would hardly ever need to be edited?
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The problem is probably that we need someone with the time and skills to do this...
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good point ;)
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SSH not needed anymore

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They changed it on SF:
A website now can be uploaded or updated using Filezilla in SFTP mode. That's much easier. No 'putty' console needed anymore :) Then a normal user login is needed. Easy as using SVN.
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Sweet. Makes the job easier, but we still need someone to do it :P
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sftp does use ssh :P
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Post by Ayu2Hami »

Maybe someone can make new site on wix.com and then upload to the SF?
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Post by penguinflyer2222 »

I like Foxie's, Seanbot's would be good with some more prettieness added on it..
Probably like a mix of all three (Zefz's, Sean's, and the current one.)

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