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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Sandwich on August 24, 2003, 05:47:25 pm
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http://www.brainzipper.com/bz/index.php
Purely design-wise, what do you think? There's still obviously tons more to do.
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wow, that's... probly the most useless site I've ever seen...
yup...
:nod:
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LOL
Looks nice though, though, of course it will be much better when the single link is working ;)
I know, I know, it's a WIP :D
Flipside :)
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color scheme is nice... :nervous:
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I don't like the thing which I assume to be standard Photoshop clouds as the background. Try something more fiitting for the tech look. A simple line pattern ought to do it.
Make a 5 x 5 pixel image. Draw a + sign, then delete one pixel from each border of the image. Edit > Define Pattern. Voila.
Or, you know, I could be wrong. Also, try making the background colour for the main box the same as the one in the navigation box. If you were to do that, the page background would need to be something close to black. I like the logo though, good stuff
Looks good, though, nice start:yes: :yes:
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Originally posted by Rictor
I don't like the thing which I assume to be standard Photoshop clouds as the background. Try something more fiitting for the tech look. A simple line pattern ought to do it.
Make a 5 x 5 pixel image. Draw a + sign, then delete one pixel from each border of the image. Edit > Define Pattern. Voila.
Or, you know, I could be wrong. Also, try making the background colour for the main box the same as the one in the navigation box. If you were to do that, the page background would need to be something close to black. I like the logo though, good stuff
Looks good, though, nice start:yes: :yes:
Originally (read: years ago) I made this whole huge composite in Photoshop with a cloud layer showing through a thin grid, like it does in the BG of the main and nav areas. Then I painstakingly made that composite tileable and used it as the BG for a whole page (this was in my pre-CSS days).
Now I know better, so I can simply have the clounds as one BG, and the partially transparent grid as the BG for elements over the clouds.
I'm tempted either to make the clounds a Greg Martin-esque starscape. or to expand the boxes to cover the clouds nearly completely.
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Nice logo :)
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Its not bad, Sandwich. Its signifigantly better than not bad, actually. :D
I'd like to see it with another third column on the right (My website, when it was up, had three columns: left-menu, center/story, right-menu) .
What's the site for? It looks good for a game oriented site, or maybe a gallery site, but I'd probably not use it for a news/training site. Without some indication of purpose, its hard to look at it critically.
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Originally posted by mikhael
Its not bad, Sandwich. Its signifigantly better than not bad, actually. :D
I'd like to see it with another third column on the right (My website, when it was up, had three columns: left-menu, center/story, right-menu) .
What's the site for? It looks good for a game oriented site, or maybe a gallery site, but I'd probably not use it for a news/training site. Without some indication of purpose, its hard to look at it critically.
A third column can be added quite easily, but I won't unless I actually have need of it.
As for its purpose, in general it'll eventually replace what I currently have on BrainZipper (http://www.brainzipper.com/), but more modular, dynamic, and without frames. But who knows, if I ever find a team and the time to resume work on SOpO, perhaps I'll use this as a general site template. ;)
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btw:
Games belong in C:\Games\. Period.
No, on my computer, they belong to D:\jeux\, there's no "period" allowed.
Blah :D
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nice desing Sandy:yes:
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Originally posted by Venom
btw:
Games belong in C:\Games\. Period.
No, on my computer, they belong to D:\jeux\, there's no "period" allowed.
Blah :D
:wtf:
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He's French. Anyway, games go wherever I feel like putting them. They're all over my hard drives.
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Originally posted by Sandwich
:wtf:
He's talking about that thing you have on your current site... with all those odd pics and whatnot...
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Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Anyway, games go wherever I feel like putting them. They're all over my hard drives.
Why does that not suprise me :wtf::nervous:
I would have put them in Program Files myself, but Freespace was the first thing I installed on my newly reformatted HD and it set the precident. Good thing too, since it is so much easier to browse to files in a directory other than Program Files on any new Windows OS.
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I partitioned my drives... I have 20 gigs set aside for games...
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Originally posted by Thorn
He's talking about that thing you have on your current site... with all those odd pics and whatnot...
Yeah, I know - the ":wtf:" was aimed more at the "D:\jeux\" thing. :p
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Jeux is French for Game
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Yeah, I gathered that, but still... tell me, do the alphabets of cryllic (?) based languages (English-based or whatever it's called) have the same order - abcdefg etc etc? Cause the PC drive listing must be really messed up for some people's way of thinking if not. :p
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no, they are the same. 'D' follows 'C' so logic would dictate that Venom has 2 hard drives or a partitioned drive. Windows assigns drive letters automatically to internal components, so you could have A:/ B:/ (second floppy drive, a hold-over I guess from the days of floppy disk swapping or booting from floppies as you can't assign anything to letter 'B') C:/ D:/ E:/ (Hard disks, you can actually buy systems with 3 drives these days), F:/ for a zip, and G:/ H:/ for CD/DVD drives. A little far fetched given that no one actually needs all of that stuff in a computer, but the BIOS/OS can do it that way if need be. Or, if you had one hard drive and a CD drive, and added a second hard drive, then the drive letter for the CD would switch from D to E.
EDIT: I just realized how confusing that actually is. To restate, it goes "Floppies, Hard Drives [always skips to C for first HD], Removable Media, [aka zip or similar drives], CD/DVD. I'm leaving the original garble there for reference to what a confusing post (by a native English speaker, I might add) looks like :p
And Sandwich, the character set used by the Germanic (English) and Romantic languages is Roman. Cyrillic languages are like Greek/Russian, aren't they?
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Yes.
I've always been frustrated that I can't assign my Zip drive to B. But there's a neat little tool I found that can reassign any of your drives to any letter you like. Name your CD-R drive R, your zip drive Z, your DVD to V, or whatever.
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Originally posted by StratComm
And Sandwich, the character set used by the Germanic (English) and Romantic languages is Roman. Cyrillic languages are like Greek/Russian, aren't they?
Yeah, I thought it sounded wrong. :p
Anyway, don't speak to me about multiple drives. ;) First off, there was a point when I discovered that a few of my games only looked for the game disc in the drive letter from which it was installed. And since at the time I was all into partitioning to organize data, my CD drive letter would be jumping anywhere from E: to J: - which would mean that I had to either reinstall said game, or find the freaking registry/.ini entry that dictated what drive letter to look in for the game disc. :rolleyes:
So I read in PC Mag or somewhere that you could assign CDROM drives to any letter you wanted via the device manager. Quickly, I went and assigned my CD drive to be the as-yet-unchanged Drive Z. ;)
But gone are the days of actually _wanting_ to have multiple partitions - I run out of room far to easily, and the more partitions one has, the more likely it is to end up with 400Mb free on 6 drives when all you need is a good solid block of 700Mb for a....erm... a game install. ;)
But since partitions are very useful in multiple-boot machines (like mine, 98 and 2k), allowing you to keep the physical OS stored close to the beginning of the drive, where access time is fastest, I still have 4 HD drive letters today: C-F, with C being 98 drive 0, D being general drive 1, E being 2k drive 0, and F being general drive 0. :D
So yes, I like designing websites. :p
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Originally posted by Sandwich
So yes, I like designing websites. :p
Good conclusion. :D
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Originally posted by Sandwich
So yes, I like designing websites. :p
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,17026.0.html :thepimp:
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Originally posted by StratComm
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Actually, you can have Hard Drives/CD-Roms/Hard Drives. My current setup (With the 2nd HD plugged in) goes C/D/E/F for the 1st HD (partitioned), then G for the CD-Rom, then H/I/J/K/L. Games go on D:. :D
I've also got Linux installed; dual-booting is another incentive to have multiple partitions.