Oolite Bulletins

Lucidor wrote:

Gallery proposal, the descriptions could show on mouseover.

That kinda kept me awake for half an hour.
Got a CSS-solution for mouseovers in the galleries ready.
Would save some screen space and removes the limit for caption length.
My current solution would display the mouseover at a fixed point at the screen (= not the site, so if you scroll, the mouseover will scroll with you).
I could also change it that it would appear under the image (the image lying below would be overwritten by the caption, but the caption disappears again if you move the cursor away of course).

Ok. I was thinking of just using the alt tag, but a css mouseover could be more fancy.

if anyone can do animated gifs or such, would it be cool to have one of a Cobra (etc) morphing from the wire-frame to shaded, to textured to Griff's, to show how the game's progressed?

Lucidor wrote:

Ok. I was thinking of just using the alt tag, but a css mouseover could be more fancy.

I thought about that shortly, but tooltips with the alt-tags are too slow. I guess many people wouldn't realize that there are captions, and that would be kinda unfortunate. The CSS-tooltips, however, show up immediately.

Killer Wolf wrote:

if anyone can do animated gifs or such, would it be cool to have one of a Cobra (etc) morphing from the wire-frame to shaded, to textured to Griff's, to show how the game's progressed?

Sounds nice, but I'm not sure if that wouldn't become annoying after a while.
If it was just in the gallery, though, it'd be nice to have

Speaking of the gallery, categorisation would be nice – Oolite, OXPs, Old, Ships or whatever.

Yeah, I already started with it (that's why there's a headline stating "Vanilla" above the Vanilla-screenshots), but I wasn't sure if all pictures should be one one page with "paragraphs" for very part and a little menu for choosing the paragraph or multiple gallery pages, each for every part. Didn't finish it, though, cause I first cared about the pop-up captions.
I guess multiple galleries would be better if we want more screenshots, right?

Multiple galleries with a tab bar approach would be my preference.

That's pretty great since I just realized that the CSS mouse-over menu is quite idiotic The menu appears only if you hover over the "starter" and disappears when you want to select an item of the popped-up menu xD

Edit: Looks like this atm (mouse is over the second picture)


Edit2: updated the draft with borders around the images.

How about integrating the forum in the site?



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

Looks like everyone is too shy to comment
Personally, I wouldn't like it because you "lose" too much screen size. Also, if I'm at the forums, I usually don't have reasons to visit the Oolite-homepage, so it wouldn't make much sense to me to include the forums into the site instead of just putting a link to it.

Yes, it's a very large header but that's mostly because I kept your design as a foundation. It can easily be made smaller.

I think it would be nice to consolidate as much as possible in the site to make site, game and forum more like one package.

Lucidor wrote:

Yes, it's a very large header but that's mostly because I kept your design as a foundation. It can easily be made smaller.

I meant losing space in general. The one we have now takes 100% screen width if you want to now.
But well, with a different div, it could have the same width and the banner is no big problem since you can just scroll down... Still, I'd rather like the forum to be separate. Just a personal preference.
The wiki would still be "outside"...
Anyway, do you know how to embed a phpBB-Forum into a website? I don't (atm).
Edit: All I read about that is that it's "very hard" to do it like you proposed. I don't know what from what perspective it is very hard, but I assume that I can't do it.

I guess it would just be to add the header to the forum and change the theme slightly to fit the design better.

Aha, so it's about changing the forum to make it look like the site + carry the links, not getting the whole forum inside the site Well, yes, that shouldn't be too hard.

And the wiki is on Winston's site, but since it isn't an Oolite wiki but a general Elite wiki I think it's ok. It's not necessary to have a wiki on the Oolite site.

But we could have a "recommended OXPs" page with a selection of the most popular.