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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:00 am
by drew
Definitely sold now - the big question is ..... when!?!?!?!
Agree with disembodied that we should be seeing the Cobra's top hull. To my recall of Elite, the top hull with interlocking triangles is much more iconic than the three piece lower hull.
Cheers,
Drew.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:51 am
by ramon
I like the Cobra as it is. I think the stark mono-ish colouring of it looks really nice too and fits the feel of the site.
Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 6:51 pm
by seventh
Well, there is upgrade.
http://www.dogma7.com/oolite/index.html
I've done all what I'd designed. Except logo. I don't like my own variant, but it's the most modern one.
ovvldc wrote:I also wonder how large the star map background pictures are. They are now GIF, but I wonder at possibilities to reduce colour depth.
After all, you want this to load really quickly and they actually use very few colours. Can we assume everyone looking for OOlite has a browser that deals with PNG?
But maybe you already optimised for this.
It is doesn't matter what kind of format you use, PNG or GIF if your image has only 16 colors or almost monochrome. In this case GIF has the same quality, but it's size in kilobytes is 50-75% less. If you wanna see more colorful pictures or images with transparency, sure, you have to use PNG24.
Anyway the images of space routs and background will be small even so they will be more colorful in PNG. ( 20-30KB gif, 30-50KB png)
All modern browsers can display PNG. There is viagra for f***ing IE6.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:13 am
by Kaks
Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...
Other than that it's looking
very professional!
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:24 am
by ramon
They are absolute on my monitor (well the background stars are) but the text moves. I assumed the text moved because the page you are on has a bigger title - which is a good idea/nice graphical touch.
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 5:45 pm
by pagroove
A really great redesign. I like it. The star map is a clever idea.
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:33 pm
by drew
So folks.... with the danger of sounding impatient. Are we planning to actually do this? Is there like... a plan?
Cheers,
Drew.
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:54 pm
by DaddyHoggy
drew wrote:So folks.... with the danger of sounding impatient. Are we planning to actually do this? Is there like... a plan?
Cheers,
Drew.
Is there ever a plan?
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:14 pm
by seventh
Kaks wrote:Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...
It's possible to freeze their.If project leaders accept my conception it will be able to fix or modify something.
Kaks wrote:
Other than that it's looking
very professional!
Sometimes I moonlight as an art-director and sometimes it even turns out
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:38 pm
by ClymAngus
seventh wrote:Kaks wrote:Sorry to be a pain, but there is one thing I would do slightly differently: I think the positions for 01.about, 02.gallery, 03.download & 04.links should be made absolute, to stop those links from jiggling about when going from page to page...
It's possible to freeze their.If project leaders accept my conception it will be able to fix or modify something.
Kaks wrote:
Other than that it's looking
very professional!
Sometimes I moonlight as an art-director and sometimes it even turns out
Art director, sweet! I would appreciate your view on the maps some time.
http://www.crimsonforge.co.uk/cloister/OOmap_G1.pdf
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:39 pm
by seventh
I always say, that your maps are almost ideal
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:21 pm
by ClymAngus
Well if you want to add them in then your more than welcome. I would say that unfortunately pdf does give that one degree of separation from a standard web page.
But generally Cool! If an art-director thinks it's sweet. then we must have done something right! Nice work by the way I'm thinking of perusing your code. If you don't mind of course.
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:47 pm
by seventh
ClymAngus wrote:Well if you want to add them in then your more than welcome. I would say that unfortunately pdf does give that one degree of separation from a standard web page.
But generally Cool! If an art-director thinks it's sweet. then we must have done something right! Nice work by the way I'm thinking of perusing your code. If you don't mind of course.
PDF is the "most human" format
The code is very simple. Multilayered html + jquery.
I have been waiting for someone's perusing
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:10 pm
by Star Gazer
One tiny point - is there a reason that the gallery pictures have the common preposition 'an' for the text under the pictures? Is this just a consequence of them being 'dummies' for the real thing or is there an error in the text generation?
Also on the links page you have 'lost' a letter in one of the links - Expansion Pack List at Elite Wiki
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:27 pm
by seventh
Star Gazer wrote:One tiny point - is there a reason that the gallery pictures have the common preposition 'an' for the text under the pictures? Is this just a consequence of them being 'dummies' for the real thing or is there an error in the text generation?
Also on the links page you have 'lost' a letter in one of the links - Expansion Pack List at Elite Wiki
"An Salvage Gang" is on oolite.org. I'm not guilty
All texts are still "lorem ipsum"