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Title: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 25, 2008, 05:48:08 pm
It's too bad Trivial Psychic hasn't been around recently; he usually notices the website updates before anyone else. ;)

Anyway, until last week, clicking on the Silent Threat: Reborn link on the main page brought you to the FS Wiki campaign page.  Now, it'll take you to a new sub-website especially for ST:R.  Check it out and see what you think.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Cobra on May 25, 2008, 06:07:14 pm
Well, my only gripe is that the banner doesn't really match the background.

Everything else is great though. :)
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Snail on May 25, 2008, 06:14:38 pm
Apart from Cobra's gripe, I think it's really nice.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 25, 2008, 06:25:59 pm
The banner and background are both textures from the same ship. :D
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Droid803 on May 25, 2008, 06:29:00 pm
The Hades tiling on the sidebar with the links makes the text hard to read...(then again, that was a problem with the Orion tiling of the normal FSPort site). That's the only thing thats glaring. Otherwise, its nice.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Mongoose on May 25, 2008, 07:56:42 pm
Tiling's way too ugly!  UV map it!  :p

Yeah, the sidebar text is a bit difficult to read, but good stuff otherwise.  I can't wait to finally see this puppy in action.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Snail on May 26, 2008, 02:19:23 pm
Quote from: Silent Threat: Reborn Website
Vasudan Admiral - CLASSIFIED

What's that supposed to mean? :p

Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Cobra on May 26, 2008, 02:41:03 pm
Y'all forgot me on that credits list. :nervous:
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: FreeSpaceFreak on May 27, 2008, 10:40:23 am
Quote from: ST:R Website > Downloads
Nope, nothing here yet.
Not even a tiny little teaser pic?
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: CaptJosh on May 28, 2008, 12:57:38 pm
Please, change the color of the text on the side bar to make it easier to read against that background.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 28, 2008, 01:02:37 pm
Quote from: Silent Threat: Reborn Website
Vasudan Admiral - CLASSIFIED

What's that supposed to mean? :p
I can't tell you; it's classified.


Y'all forgot me on that credits list. :nervous:
:wtf:


Quote from: ST:R Website > Downloads
Nope, nothing here yet.
Not even a tiny little teaser pic?
What, the Mystery Pics aren't good enough for you? :p

(That's a good point actually.  We should probably put the Mystery Stuff up.)


Please, change the color of the text on the side bar to make it easier to read against that background.
I tried messing with it but got nowhere.  If you have any recommendations I'd love to hear them.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: CaptJosh on May 28, 2008, 01:07:15 pm
If it's straight HTML, I could always take a crack at it myself. Somewhere around here I used to have a copy of Dreamweaver, which I rather liked for the way I could do a splitscreen of the actual code vs what would appear on screen, and see the changes I made to the HTML take effect. I used to be pretty handy with HTML and stylesheets.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 28, 2008, 02:43:08 pm
It's straight HTML.  Do the "view source" thing and see what you make of it.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: CaptJosh on May 28, 2008, 07:26:47 pm
Looks like all you really need to do is add a <font color=""> tag at the <body> tag, and a corresponding </font> tag just before the </body> tag. Just need to work through your colors until you find one that contrasts well, but doesn't look ugly. But make sure the tag is on the file for the navigation frame, of course.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 28, 2008, 07:44:04 pm
:rolleyes: I know how to change font colors; I coded the website myself.  By recommendations I mean recommendations for colors.  I ran through a number of colors but none that I tried was appreciably better than white.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: CaptJosh on May 28, 2008, 07:46:51 pm
Perhaps it's the background image that needs adjusting in that case? If it was made darker, that would probably take care of the issue. As for font colors, I'll see what I can come up with later.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 28, 2008, 08:36:04 pm
Maybe tone the background image down a bit towards grayscale / fade the colours. Have you considered a flash navigation bar?
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Goober5000 on May 28, 2008, 09:38:44 pm
Have you considered a flash navigation bar?
Yep, and rejected it.
Title: Re: Website Update
Post by: Colonol Dekker on May 28, 2008, 09:50:45 pm
Gif image navigation?
Upping the font size to make it a bit more differentiable from the background?
Oops nearly forgot, aside from the nav, the sites cool :yes: as is the main. Can't wait to play. Cheers again for that start of year offer Goob :) i can now wait happily:yes: