Pete Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Well I had a rethink and came up with what I think is my best yet. Check out the main page, try out the sections and hold out on reporting any errors until I've finished all the sections The main content tables (news posts in this case) should be semi-transparent with an X-COM Interceptor craft flying along in (bizarrely yellow/orange) space. If you can't see that through the background then you're on an old browser (most likely Internet Explorer version lower than 5.5). Upgrade This one works on 800x600 and above, so enjoy, and feel free to comment away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Rock on! I though I'd got the wrong site! May I be the first to say "WOW".Nice one mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bastiaan Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 He Pete, cool main page,It works oke from here. always liked the Firestar.It seems fan fiction is missing in the bar above, or it's a flaw in my connection.Or there is no Fanfiction anymore,anyway see you later, in a month I am back in the Netherlands and then I will be here more often, there are a few projects runnung I see, UFO Alien Invasion, Xenocide is starting to get shape,a while ago we had the freedom force mod, UFO Aftermath ofcourse and I am curious how it is with X-COM Last Hope, that FPS.Anything I have left out, anyway nice work Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Fanfictions there, well, the title is. There's just no list of fanfics. Speaking of which, how do we submit fanfics to be entered into the fanfic list? Sen 'em to Mouse Nightshirt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Terrorist Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 eek!! help!! oh wait, ah I see! Nice one Pete though it's a shame you gave into them 800x600'ers :) But yeah, really cool, though when I was looking at it it sorta reminded me of the Federal News Network thingy from Starship troopers (I watched it to check that my DVD player works ) But like I said, very nice and very cool, love the Firestar behind the menu's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 16, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Indeed - fan fiction goes to Mouse, but I've not finished the fan fiction script (the only benefit 99.9% of users will see is that they can subscribe, whilst it makes Mouse's life INFINITELY easier I hope ). Hopefully now I've got this design pretty sorted I can finish that. Not bothering with the forum skin yet to make it look like the new design as there's a new version coming out and new version usually means new way of skinning Well... I might just do it anyway to see how neat I can get it looking, but no promises! I'm determined to have a 100% skinned and functional site by Summer @ Bastiaan - you are correct - the fan fiction link is missing off the nav bar links. There are many new projects coming up and the Alien Invasion demo was kinda cool. I'm going to follow it a bit more closely once the redesign's done. See you soon mate! Cheers for the comments! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted February 16, 2004 Report Share Posted February 16, 2004 Great idea and good job. The access to the forums has been greatly improved (I use 800x600 ). Just two things: there should be a quick link to the main site (probably on the X-COM banner on top); and...where are the aliens on the banner? it's just that is easier to identify the site with X-COM when the ole Chryssalid/Sectoid are up there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwi Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 It looks great Pete .. the coolest site just got cooler! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slaughter Posted February 17, 2004 Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 Yep, looking VERY neat! I don't like the menu that makes the news pop up and down though, but I already told you so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 17, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2004 I'm working on it popping out without moving that, but having a hard time making it cross browser compatible. I'll come up with something - I always do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 This is definately the best looking version to date ! Keep up the good work Mate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 18, 2004 Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Looks good, but my only complaint is that it locks up my browser after the page fully loads. Odd, really. Everything loads fine, but once it begins on the background image, poof, ctrl+alt+delete time. It's probably just my laptop. Hard drive is slowly failing anyway... problem should clear after a reboot. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2004 Let me know if it continues matey... It may be a bit of screwy javascript (though I don't see how, but I've not put in this much before ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 19, 2004 Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 Still locks up the browser. Pity, really, as I think I was able to see it properly once. Luckily, I can still skip ahead to the forums before the page fully loads. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2004 I'll throw up (not literally) a page without javascript and we can see if that clears it up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1101 Posted February 20, 2004 Report Share Posted February 20, 2004 Yo!! It's good work!1101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 @ NKF - Let me know if it works now - I've made a few minor adjustments Also, could anyone not able to view the main site who's not already done so please let me know which browser they're using. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 21, 2004 Report Share Posted February 21, 2004 Sorry Pete, it still freezes when it starts loading the background image. Everything else is just fine, however. I'm using a copy of Mozilla that's 3 years old, so I'm guessing its java implementation may be a tad outdated. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2004 Ah. Outdated Moz will almost definitely be the cause then. I've double-checked my CSS and there's nothing wrong witht he way it's trying to load that background image. I did have a little trouble initially getting it in the right place using CSS as Mozilla has some funny ideas of where I was trying to pin it originally, but it works now on Mozila, Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. I really don't like to suggest that people update their software as it's none of my business, but I highly recommend Mozilla Firefox as the browser of choice for all your web-browsing needs (blatant plug). Seriously though, it's 6MB and does what it needs to do without loading up a billion useless features. I only mention it as I'm currently trying to work the main site design into the forum layout too and it'd be pretty crap of me to cut off any of the site members let alone one of the main contributors. I'll throw up a page without javascript though in the meantime just to check it really isn't that that's causing the trouble - https://www.x-com.co.uk/nojs.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 Heh, I was planning to upgrade to Firebird and now they come out with Firefox. Gecko's getting a bit tiresome, actually. Anyway after looking at the no javascript page, the thing crashed again. Still at the same time it starts to load the background image. Could you try and make a test page without the background image? Just for troubleshooting purposes to see if it really is what's causing the crash. I hope it isn't - since there's no real reason why it should be the cause of the crash, but it might be part of the problem. We'll get to the bottom of this, ying-tong-iddle-i-po! I don't want to force this extra work on you simply for the sake of downward compatiblity. We all have to keep up with the times sometimes, right? - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 There's one image that doesn't load correctly on my local server but does on the online one. I'll take both out and see what happens. The display may look a little odder than I intended, but head back on over to https://www.x-com.co.uk/nojs.php and see what happens this time I am impressed with Firefox (formerly Firebird) after two days of using it. Having been a lifelong Internet Explorer user, I really can say the only time I'd go back now is for testing pages in all browser types. The tabbing system, bookmarking system and the bookmarks toolbar have greatly increased my browsing efficiency and Firebird hasn't crashed yet, whereas IE doesn't need an excuse to crash randomly at me. Anyway, I'd like to find out if it is that background image as other people may have trouble too! I've reuploaded the background image as well and corrected a PHP mistake in the main https://www.x-com.co.uk file and the nojs.php file, though since PHP is server side I can't see that being the case. One last time eh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NKF Posted February 23, 2004 Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 You'll be pleased to know that it's not a problem with the images in question because it locked up my browser anyway. I'll give it another go later tonight. If all else fails, I'll just upgrade my browser and be done with it. High time I did that anyway. - NKF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2004 LOL. I shall commence full-speed with the forum design then. It's almost done anyway, and I wasn;t going to bother until the new forum version, but it looks kinda cool on my machine here almost totally integrated with the rest of the site. I'd give it til the end of the weekend til this site is finally reunited under one design (that works - unlike the current broken forum design) that'll work for 99.95% of folk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JellyfishGreen Posted February 24, 2004 Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Lo, it is written: one design to unite the forawhere all the users can find themone design to display the postsand in the codebase bind them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted February 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2004 Erm... some people have more time than others and live in teh middle of our current home planet no doubt Kidding. Very well put. (Middle of home planet - geddit? Middle Earth... evidently I have far too little time to write anything remotely amusing ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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