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Shagster
12-09-06, 01:09 PM
www.vanguarddefiant.com

It is a guild website for the upcoming Vanguard Online game coming out.

I was hoping for some constructive criticism to help me develop it.

I actually doesn't even need to be constructive. If you think something looks retarded, let me know that too.

TonyT
12-09-06, 04:57 PM
The menu is different on this page:
http://www.vanguarddefiant.com/dkp/viewnews.php
the font is larger & the order is different:
main = news-forums-links-media-dkp & on dkp page it goes:
news-dkp-forums-links-media

I guess from a "gamer's viewpoint" it looks good. I like it & I don't have a gamer's viewpoint cause I don't dig comp games.

YARDofSTUF
12-09-06, 05:03 PM
Looks good, It might help if the Defiant image for the forums was smaller, Im on a 24" screen so its fine for be, but people on smaller monitors might not liek the size of the image.

Bonus points for using phpbb, looks like a nice freebie forum.

Shagster
12-09-06, 05:10 PM
The dkp site doesn't like php script :( So I am working on that. The whole menu is one file distributed via php require.

The funny thing was that phpbb didn't like it either, I had to install a mod for it to take it. Heh.

I am a little worried about people finding it too simple, I was thinking if I added something it would look better, but wasn't sure what.

Also, is there a header script to tell the site not to box a image link with a dotted line when clicked?

TonyT
12-10-06, 10:19 AM
The dkp site doesn't like php script :( So I am working on that. The whole menu is one file distributed via php require.

The funny thing was that phpbb didn't like it either, I had to install a mod for it to take it. Heh.

I am a little worried about people finding it too simple, I was thinking if I added something it would look better, but wasn't sure what.

Also, is there a header script to tell the site not to box a image link with a dotted line when clicked?
re link boxes:
Not a header script, but use javascript. Works when using the browser back button as well, and also works on txt links.
<a onclick='this.blur();' href='#' target='_top'><img src='image.xxx' border='0' width="xx" height="xx"></a>

re "not liking php script & require":
Why use php require? It's much easier to use the php include function:
(and just 1 file to edit when changing the menu)
<table><tr><? include("horiz_menu.html") ?></tr></table>

the entirety of horiz_menu.html code looks like this:
<td><a href="#">Page1</a></td>
<td><a href="#">Page1</a></td>
<td><a href="#">Page2</a></td>
<td><a href="#">Page3</a></td>
<td><a href="#">Page4</a></td>
<td><a href="#">Page5</a></td>

Resize the top Defiant image to 770 pixels width so as to display on 800x600 screens w/out a horizontal scrollbar. 770 pixels allows for vertical scrollbars when page height changes.

Simple is GOOD!

Shagster
12-10-06, 10:35 AM
Yeah, ill drop the image down, I wanted to get it to ~25 - 30Kb anyway.

I read about include over require, but I didn't see much of a difference, I'll look deeper into it.

Since the menu was CSS based, I was able to use....

a{outline: none;}

to knock out those annoying dotted lines. Now I just need to tackle the dkp side of site not workign with php even though it says it is php!

Shagster
12-15-06, 08:48 AM
I ran into an odd problem. Firefox had no issue but for some reason IE stopped showing the forums on my site, they just disappeared from the page.

It ended up that it crapped out because this....

<script language="JavaScript" src="ocscript.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

which was part of the site menu was below the body script portion of it. Just as seen above.

Does anyone know why IE would crap out because of the line of script while firefox does not?

The thing I found even odder was that in a previous version of the menu I used, IE didn't show it right BECAUSE that line of script was no present. Adding it is what fixed it. It took me forever to figure out what the problem was because that was the first line of script on the page I thought wasn't causing the problem.



Why is IE such a piece of ****?

TonyT
12-15-06, 02:21 PM
The script should go in the <head></head> section so it gets downloaded and cached PRIOR to the rest of the page code being executed by the browser. Browsers read the code from the top downward.