| Post 1 | New | Posted March 4th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr 
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| Post 2 | New | Posted March 4th, 2004 |
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| Faze Introverted Destruction 
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| Post 3 | New | Posted March 6th, 2004 |
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| Mademan Certified University Drop-out
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| Post 4 | New | Posted March 6th, 2004 |
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| 2na Beans, eating it!
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| Post 5 | New | Posted March 6th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr
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| Post 6 | New | Posted March 6th, 2004. Updated March 6th, 2004 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard 
| Azz On 06/03/2004 @ 08:18:27 wrote: gah, there was no parallel forum. It was just a figment of your DNS's imagination. mkay? think of it as a ghostie.. boo aargh, you know.. Here's a problem I've found:But this news post was about a few different things I've changed behind the scenes. Big for me, nothing major for anyone else, I just wanted someone to let me know if it's broken (unlike they did with the cookie issue)  200% I had to make two new folder levels to host that in a sensible place. Text wrapping in the titles, but the background isn't expanding to accomodate this. Ordinarily this might not be such a problem, but because it's white text and a white background it is a problem. As well as looking a bit messy. I can't figure out an easy solution though, as the design doesn't really allow the little background to expand as it's centrally mounted and has to remain attached to the image. Erm, how about using red text for article titles? The date is in red, so that might work. :) For the skin select, you've set it up with square brackets and a vertical bar when that column is just too narrow to accomate it all on the same row. Removing these characters would probably mean the two objects could appear side by side, though. Well, they do in the new-look Azz type schemes because they have the super-wide navigation area but this isn't the case in the old ones. In negativity, the visited link colour gets easily lost in the background of the scrolling active topics list. That skin really is quite sumptious apart from this, though. B) In "Accessibility" most of the links are actually invisible! They either become invisible on the hover event, or are invisible as standard due to them using black or white and the backgrounds using black or white. :! The news articles are displayed two rows lower than the car submission thing, which looks a bit weird. Removing the pair of BR's from the top of the news articles would solve this. As it seems like a dynamic page, you might have to add these back in but below the news article template, if that's the sort of system you are using. In the "alternative" scheme, is the opacity dealio for the hover on navigation links common technology, or just an MS gimmick? If it isn't common, maybe you shouldn't use it? If it is common then killer, because it looks great. Here's a screenshot of the alternative scheme with everything highlighted. Yes, I use orange highlight colour in Windows. :]  200% This shows the two rows above the news articles, the scheme selector getting wrapped around and there's an artefact with the graphical borders on both sides. Oh, also shows that even with quite a wide window you get a horizontal scrollbar. Well, you did ask. :) (EDIT) If you are wondering why my browser is taller than it is wide, it's because I make use of resizable windows like this:  1600x1200. ------------------
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| Post 7 | New | Posted March 6th, 2004 |
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| Azz the barbarian. grrr
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| Post 8 | New | Posted March 8th, 2004. Updated March 8th, 2004 | ||
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| Cerbera Ben 'Cerbera' Millard
| I've had a little poke around the site again and I see you've aligned the articles and submission parts again, also managed to half-solve the title problem and the seperator characters are now gone, allowing the selector dropdown and button to be alongside each other. :) For the title thing, it might be a case of having to ditch the slimline background and just using a two row image as standard? Where you've got solid colours as the background you could just have the background-color set, but where you've got those tricky titles with graphics and stuff it might be trickier. Then again, the pages that use the really intricitate title cells seem to have more space for text, so it might not become a problem. The big setup for the accessibility titles works well, might not suit the other schemes though. Resizability would make this site both terrific to look at and terrific to use. Really, every site should be resizable but it's amazing how many proper corporate places don't realise that people use different browser sizes. (EDIT) I had a look in the CSS and there's a hell of a lot of classes in there! The syntax you use is inconsistant as well; at the top you have them just strung out in huge rows with two tabs between the class name and the actual properties, then nearer the bottom it breaks into multi-line format with three tabs between the start of each line and the properties. Personally, I use the below notation because it allows the CSS to be viewed in a skinny window whilst the results can be displayed in a large window beside it. Easier to work with on my congested desktop, at least: Code: table.asuka { I think it reduces the amount of characters you need, as well as allowing it to be veiwed in a skinny window. At 1600x1200, a maximised Notepad window actually had a horizontal scroller viewing that CSS from your site.background-color: #8EAECC; border:1 solid black; border-top-width: 0pt; background-image: url("images/asuka.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: bottom right } Although the return marks are each one or two characters, you'd have a space in thier place so you aren't adding filesize by using new lines for each property. It seems a bit easier to read to my eyes as well...might just be me though. :) The way you're assigning classes is much neater than I do it, so I'll be stealing some of your techniques. ;D ------------------
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