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« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2008, 07:39:13 PM »
Quote from: Draconis on September 15, 2008, 07:33:22 AM
Thank you, still working on it.   CloudWolf at one point has noted it's a little to 'codey' so I'll try and fix that too.

But at least it's faster than the previous one Smiley

I dunno, now the site's filled out a little bit and theres more black backgrounds it's starting to grow on me. Looking forward to the return of the OS section ^_^
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« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2008, 08:17:17 PM »
Yeah the OS section is there, but need to discuss the method of recruitment, so I can alter the section to meet the needs.  It's technically there, just hidden at the moment.
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« Reply #17 on: September 17, 2008, 10:53:09 PM »
Nice to see the mission summaries back, though they might look nicer in a black backgrounded box instead of just text on code. Also, the drop downs for the guides are going 'behind' the links for the wallpaper and summary sections - having certain sections covered up by blackness.

Overall though I'm just glad to see how well the site's making the transition, i'm getting excited everytime i notice something new =D

Drac, you'll have to shoot me a PM sometime once everythings sorted regarding content management. One of the pet peeves the DN1 community expressed was certain inaccuracies with the guide content and I'm looking forward to getting what i can fixed up for em'. Not to mention the mountain of Mission Summaries i'm going to have to try and add now Zippy's on College Hiatus. XDD
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« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2008, 11:22:52 PM »
Yeah, they took some doing.  The code is a little single threaded, but the old ones are okay I guess. Had to reduce the images to better suit the site size.  I'll look at the DIV to define a background color.

As for the menus, you might have to refresh the page, as I made changes to the CSS to move the menus over so that didn't happen.  Let me know as I'll have to fully test it with IE7.

As for the DN1 Community, if they are that peeved I'd like to see at least one person ever post a change to data notification to the forums here.  If they ever did inform directly I'm sure it would be changed.  But I'll be sure to PM you, or write up a guide to how it's need to be done.

It can be tricky I'm sure to edit as the sections it's in isn't that user friend for size of edit box wise, and I've not been able to work out how to alter it.  There are just a few common syntax's to follow, but everything else is simple HTML.

Glad you're liking it! Smiley
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« Reply #19 on: September 18, 2008, 01:33:41 AM »
Cleared cache then refreshed and it still hadn't changed; so I grabbed some of the IE specific code from the guide sections and put them between the end link and end line tags. Seems to be working fine now.
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« Reply #20 on: September 18, 2008, 07:56:52 AM »
Strange, as that code has only opening tags for TABLE, TR and TD but no closing tags.  I hate IE, it's such a pain to cater for...
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« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2008, 02:39:19 AM »
If they are using IE, you should just show a white screen with a link to firefox    Grin
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« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2008, 07:49:31 AM »
OH I am/was so tempted too Idian.  At one stage for the menu system for all IE I had "IE sux, get a real browser to experience the whole site" or something along those lines...

IE 6 & IE7 are such an inferior product I don't know why people stick with it, it is such a hassle for web designers.  FireFox, Opera .. there are so much better choices.
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« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2008, 06:43:10 PM »
As much as that may or may not be true, I've never been one to agree with limiting a web experience based on browser preference - it's just not fair to those who make the choice to use IE. Which quite a few people still do. I honestly think it would only be a bad thing for the site to use a message like that, besides, cutting off any sort of user base is never a good idea. On top of that, one of the pieces of feedback from DN1 was eliminating the quirky IE performance in the old site, which has been done to a fairly good degree imo.
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« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2008, 07:15:12 PM »
Just try to access Microsoft's websites advanced features with Firefox and see how big business handles the competition or even better browsers Smiley

As a rule of thumb if people are using buggy and non compliant browsers shouldn't mean they aren't penalized or directed to their shortcomings.  It's this very reason that web designers are jump through hoops to keep IE browsers working is a negative affect on the whole web design as a whole.

The quirky IE performance was always the fault of IE not anything else, as any other browser it worked perfectly Smiley ANY other!

But I can't see myself blocking out any IE users at the moment.
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« Reply #25 on: September 20, 2008, 01:36:27 AM »
Well the open tables for the second menu that were added, actually broke it from IE6.

So I've spent the last 6 Hours re-designing the menu system, and I'm happy to say it's finally working the same (for the most part) on all popular browsers.  I still have to tweak the colors for on hover, etc.  But the menus are the same for IE6, IE7, Firefox 2+ Opera, Chrome (don't have Safari installed to0 test).
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« Reply #26 on: September 20, 2008, 04:14:42 AM »
Cool beans. And I can confirm Safari's working too (on my fiance's MacBook) apart from, like you said, certain hover over colours. Though, after a second take it seems tied into those sections that do or do not have subsections. Still, a consistent aesthetic across all the selections would be nice since the reason isn't readily apparent. Though, after further musing, it looks pretty cool for any third set of choices, so it goes black, green, black. Is there a way of changing them one by one?

Also, with the (yay returning) time zone convertor, does that automatically take into account different daylight savings for different regions? I remember trying to use it at one point with the old site and it was an hour out compared with another couple of convertors I was using.

Oh and on another note, ZippyTheSquirrel recently announced his come back after a more settled life schedule so continuing mission summaries should be forthcoming (especially once I fully understand content addition and maintainance). =D
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« Reply #27 on: September 20, 2008, 09:29:49 AM »
Can't change them one by one, not without a massive amount of extra manual CSS coding and creating of individual styles for each entry.

The timezone doesn't automatically change, and I (someone) needs to change the various areas to daylight or standard time.  There is commented out code and an offset adjustment in the page source.   I'm not sure of the Flash world timezone as it's not controlled by me.

Yes I was reading the thread about that on the Official Forums, wish I could post over there at times Smiley
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« Reply #28 on: September 20, 2008, 10:56:48 PM »
Well seems ok in IE7, all of em' are using the green background. Unless you changed something =P

As for the timezone, thats ok, once things are settled i'll keep an eye on it and keep it updated as things changes, its actually quite a handy tool to have with an event driven game like MxO.
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« Reply #29 on: September 20, 2008, 11:03:19 PM »
Yes I altered the CSS to use one color for all, though I have to still fix it for IE6.

Yeah, I think it's correct at the moment.  ... Shame there doesn't seem to be many events these days ... well at least player based ones.
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