Web redesign

Rxke · Post by **Rxke** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:10 pm

ovvldc wrote:

I was also wondering if it were possible to put the YAH! banners as fake ads on the web page somewhere. A lot of them are hilarious and it could be nice to cycle three random ads or something if the load times would not be impacted too badly .

Best wishes,
Oscar

Heehee!

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:13 pm

Corny wrote:
Edit: One more thing: May I assume that people visiting Oolite.org use browsers that support png transparency correctly?
Like... good browsers?

At least in my case: yes, you can.

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:17 pm

On my Oolite page on my homepage website (not yet online), I'm going to use the following image as a banner:

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:21 pm

My take on the Corny design:

full size: http://uploaded.joskar.com/lucidor/oolite.png

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:24 pm

IE 5 and 6 can display transparent pngs by the way. It's little tricky though.

http://24ways.org/2007/supersleight-tra ... png-in-ie6

Corny · Post by **Corny** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:32 pm

Lucidor wrote:
My take on the Corny design:

Leaving the always persisting yellow behind might be an idea...

Looks cool!

About the gallery:
There two drafts (code-wise).
The first one uses a fixed height for the text field. That means, the amount of text for a caption is limited and some space might be "wasted".
The big advantage of this is, however, that it adapts to your screen width.

The other option is to fix the number of images per line. That way, you can type as much as you want as a caption, but it doesn't adapt to your screen with.

Since captions shouldn't be too long anyway, I'd use the first one...

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:45 pm

Lucidor wrote:
My take on the Corny design:

full size: http://uploaded.joskar.com/lucidor/oolite.png

This is excellent! I especially like the Oolite logo, with the first O being a witchspace wormhole!

BTW, I would have done the link a bit differently, ie:

Code: Select all

My take on the Corny design:

[url=http://uploaded.joskar.com/lucidor/oolite.png]
[img]http://uploaded.joskar.com/lucidor/oolite_thumb.png[/img]
[/url]

Click on the image to get full size!

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:50 pm

ovvldc wrote:
I was also wondering if it were possible to put the YAH! banners as fake ads on the web page somewhere. A lot of them are hilarious and it could be nice to cycle three random ads or something if the load times would not be impacted too badly.

Certainly possible, as animated GIFs this can be done quite easily.

Clicks on them could take you to the YAH wiki page?

Corny · Post by **Corny** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:56 pm

Yeah, seventh's different approach to the logo is kinda retro and fine

Still curious what logo might be taken

Btw, the gallery with the first code-approach in 1024*768-resolution:

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:02 pm

Corny wrote:
Btw, the gallery with the first code-approach in 1024*768-resolution:

What are you using to generate the gallery? Is it a server side include or something?

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:04 pm

JazHaz wrote:
BTW, I would have done the link a bit differently, ie:

Yes, but I'm an infinitely lazy guy and doing it that way requires more tags.

Glad you liked it. Unfortunately I can't take any credit for the logo, except for the glow around the first O.

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:44 pm

http://uploaded.joskar.com/lucidor/oolite1.png

Gallery proposal, the descriptions could show on mouseover.

Still plenty of room for improvements.

Corny · Post by **Corny** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:56 pm

JazHaz wrote:
Corny wrote:
Btw, the gallery with the first code-approach in 1024*768-resolution:
What are you using to generate the gallery? Is it a server side include or something?

CSS.

Ahruman stated quite clearly what he thinks about CMS or usage of much scripting.
The code should be easily understandable. I'll add comments, only thing you'd need to do to add an item is replacing the title and typing in your caption.
The people who change pictures of the website are probably used to code anyway

A bit more for the eye like in Lucidor's proposal is still possible, but the arrows at the bottom wouldn't have a function

most users should already be familiar with scroll bars, though, so no worries

Lucidor · Post by **Lucidor** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 7:59 pm

The files in case anyone wants to play with them.

http://www.box.net/shared/1pez21642n

JazHaz · Post by **JazHaz** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:00 pm

Corny wrote:
JazHaz wrote:
What are you using to generate the gallery? Is it a server side include or something?
CSS. Ahruman stated quite clearly what he thinks about CMS or usage of much scripting.
The code should be easily understandable. I'll add comments, only thing you'd need to do to add an item is replacing the title and typing in your caption.

So to add a picture you have to dive into the HTML?