Web redesign

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 12:08 am

This is great now! Love the navigation bar!

Wish I could do as well!

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:44 am

Edit: Ehm, almost. Works OK from all pages except the very first one (with Drew's text). Clicking download from that screen brings up the "helpful" dialog.

Hmmm, you're right, there are 2 page headers, and the second - unchanged - one is used for both the index & 404 page...

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:35 am

Kaks wrote:
Hmmm, you're right, there are 2 page headers, and the second - unchanged - one is used for both the index & 404 page...

Just so you know, you should be able to fix it. :-) (sftp://[email protected]/home/groups/oolite-linux/htdocs)

Post by **Kaks** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:39 am

drew · Post by **drew** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:20 am

Looking great guys - nice to see it updated at long last!

Thanks for the continuing link on the front page to Status Quo. I wonder if we should give all the great fan-fic a bit of an airing though, rather than just me? Could we have 'fanfic' or 'novella/short story' section to the download area perhaps, or a "05.Fiction" part of the navigation? (might be a big ask - I don't know)

Cheers,

Drew.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:32 am

drew wrote:
I wonder if we should give all the great fan-fic a bit of an airing though, rather than just me? Could we have 'fanfic' or 'novella/short story' section to the download area perhaps, or a "05.Fiction" part of the navigation?

I think thats a good idea.

I like the galleries, they work quite well, the pics expand nicely on page. One thing though, the videos only link to YouTube. Can we not use the embedded YouTube player?

They are quite easy to make on YouTube, and are quite customisable.

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:33 am

Great job guys!

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 1:09 pm

drew wrote:
Looking great guys - nice to see it updated at long last! 8)

Thanks for the continuing link on the front page to Status Quo. I wonder if we should give all the great fan-fic a bit of an airing though, rather than just me? Could we have 'fanfic' or 'novella/short story' section to the download area perhaps, or a "05.Fiction" part of the navigation? (might be a big ask - I don't know)

As with OXPs, I don’t particularly want to do an “official” fan fic page, for two reasons: maintenance, and selection. However, I’d be happy to add a Fiction section to the Links page, with, say, links to the Fiction section of the board and a Fiction portal on EliteWiki or elsewhere, if there was one.

drew · Post by **drew** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:25 pm

I guess I could run through the wiki and flag all the Oolite fiction with a tag, then create a front page for them all? Then we could link to that from the website?

Happy to do if there are no objections?

Cheers,

Drew.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:37 pm

drew wrote:
I guess I could run through the wiki and flag all the Oolite fiction with a tag, then create a front page for them all? Then we could link to that from the website?

Happy to do if there are no objections?

There's already a category for Fiction set up. Might not work as advertised as it doesn't just have the stories on it though, but authors as well, but it might be a starting point?

drew · Post by **drew** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:41 pm

JazHaz wrote:
drew wrote:
I guess I could run through the wiki and flag all the Oolite fiction with a tag, then create a front page for them all? Then we could link to that from the website?

Happy to do if there are no objections?
There's already a category for Fiction set up. Might not work as advertised as it doesn't just have the stories on it though, but authors as well, but it might be a starting point?

Trouble with that is that that category shows everything, fiction for Frontier, original Elite and so on. Gets confusing IMHO...

Cheers,

Drew.

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:56 pm

JazHaz wrote:
category for Fiction set up. Might not work as advertised as it doesn't just have the stories on it though, but authors as well, but it might be a starting point?

Saw that, but dismissed it for the same reason as drew. Something like Category:Oolite_stories might be better – specifically Oolite, and specifically stories rather than “fiction-related”. (Then again, there’s fic that isn’t strictly stories.)

Website · Post by **Cody** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:23 pm

Ahruman wrote:
Category:Oolite_stories might be better – specifically Oolite, and specifically stories rather than “fiction-related”. (Then again, there’s fic that isn’t strictly stories.)

Call it 'Tales from the Oolite Zone', perhaps.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:59 pm

El Viejo wrote:
Call it 'Tales from the Oolite Zone', perhaps.

'Tales from the Ooniverse' might be better?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 4:16 pm

JazHaz wrote:
'Tales from the Ooniverse' might be better?

No. In-jokes aren’t very approachable. (Also, the more fanciful names would look a bit weird as wiki categories.)