Oolite Bulletins

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 10:40 am**

The Oolite category in the Elite Wiki now has 100 articles! It's coming along very nicely.

I think it's time for an actual proper front page. Anyone have any strong opinions (or otherwise) on the matter?

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 4:13 pm**

I think Galileo is onto something with his suggestion, of course with the additions of nice icons.. B/W ones look best I think.

BTW a headsup on some bastard named 68.248.225.138 who has spammed the help:contents page

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:22 pm**

Those icons make it look much nicer, Murgh!

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:36 pm**

thanks

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just a suggestion from the palette I had laying around..

how does one iconify fiction? Janusmasks? quills?

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:51 pm**

re: fiction, maybe a blinking ">" , scrolling 'captains' log' 7x5 blocky lettertype? (8-bit computerstyle, terminal...)

Posted: **Mon Feb 13, 2006 11:53 pm**

I think I know what you mean..

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:12 am**

Hmm, I've added some borders to the sections but for some strange reason it stuffs up the widths of the columns

I don't have anymore time to play around with it ATM, so hopefully someone else knows what they're doing. Otherwise we'll just revert it.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:21 am**

I see what you mean, but know nothing about such stuff.

I don't have that font that you envisioned, Rik.
tried something close..
no giffy blinking either

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 1:08 am**

I fixed the column widths and it all looks very nice IMHO! I think its almost ready to be moved to the front page.

EDIT: I've went ahead and moved it to the front page. Now we need to make similar pages for each of the categories, I'll start working on that tonight but I really have to get some study done right now!

EDIT2: I made a main page for Oolite here, which is linked to from the wiki's main page.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:58 am**

You guys did an outstanding job!

Very impressive!

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:05 am**

Oh yes, I like that main page!

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 4:37 pm**

Nice Icons...
Nice layout too.

I think the font Rik is refering to is usually called BASIC or TERMINAL.

Maybe make the log an animated *.gif, with a blinking cursor?

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:00 pm**

oh man never ask me to try to make a gif again. I HATE them.
everything works fine the with the first frame, but the subsequent frames somehow just have to be screwed up.
one instance makes what was trasparent into black! went back and redid the gifs, nice webready photoshop style, still, the moment it becomes a movie, some new horror begins. a transparency nightmare.

then I thought. what the hell. it'll be on white anyway. I'll cheat it.
so it works. looks like it should. I upload it, and of course the background isn't white.
never again!

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 8:28 pm**

Murgh, before starting make sure all your frames have the same color pallette. I used the Netscape 216 color pallette for my gif animations.

Posted: **Tue Feb 14, 2006 10:36 pm**

well, now I tried that too. Netscape 216. what could be worse? it even uploaded and looked fine on the image page only to turn black later.
I'm certainly doing something wrong but haven't the health to pursue.