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Posted: June 13, 2010 11:22 am  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49    | Yea, you've all seen some changes recently. I'm working on stuff. One: Improving the code of the news-box. When I am done, things will be better arranged, and done such that if you have Javascript off, its still usable(at least, the default tab). Good for mobile devices or "secure" browsing. Take a look at the PM a WG Official link. It pops up a nice little javascript box(Not complete in the least), which will have all the links to PM people. The Search link will do the same thing, and probably the war/raid alert also. Two: I'm trying to adapt the forum to work better with different sized screens. The old fixed-width didn't work for 800X600/480, and on anything above 1024X768 it wasn't so nice. Now, I'm making it scale so that it looks decent on large screens, but also scales down to work on 800X600(and mobile-device screens, typically 800X480). My problem here is the banner, which doesn't scale well. Any suggestions? -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link  I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 11:34 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: WG Justin Group: Banned Posts: 372 Member No.: 74 Joined: January 1, 2008 Total Events Attended: 110 | perhaps encourage banners to be max width and then scale back from there? -------------------- WG SINCE 21 MARCH 2005 | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 12:40 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | Thanks Robbie. I like the new look and layout of the box, the pm an official/search thing etc. Not enjoying the scaled up forums atm, that's the thing that I thought looked best about our forums, that they were slick and you could view a lot of them at once. Not liking that  --------------------    | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 03:15 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Ubg Fcbruges Group: Emeritus Posts: 1209 Member No.: 1373 Joined: October 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 64 | Is better  well done there! --------------------  Portfolio ~~ WG Emeritus - 20 November 2010 ~~ ~~ WG Higher Guardian - 10 November 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Emeritus - 2 July 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Higher Guardian - 27 February 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Guardian - 12 December 2008 ~~ ~~ WG Trial Guardian - 30 October 2008 ~~ | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 03:24 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | After much trolling of the forums, I am becoming indifferent to the scaled forums changes, so if it works better for some users, then good. I'm sure we'll all get used to it. P.S - Robbie, there appears to be a problem with the stats lookup for each person - it's not incorporating hp/constitution or something? While you're fixing things...  -------------------- | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 04:37 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 |
It is looking up your stats based on your username and not your RS name. That is why. It works for Ubg. I was surprised at the scaled forums. I am somewhat indifferent about it as long as we can get the banners to be scaled. People must remember: If the banner is scaled, it is going to change the look to it because it will not keep the aspect ratio, unless it is made to get taller along with wider. It is kind of a hard situation to decide whether to go with the large banners or the smaller banners, because one size will lose. --------------------      | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 05:09 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Sativas Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2255 Member No.: 1305 Joined: August 29, 2008 Total Events Attended: 155 | How about the banners like on zybez.net? If they were made like that it would scale down or increase depending on the size you are trying to use. --------------------  The Ultimate Skilling and Combat Badges Updated June 17th, 2011        | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 05:23 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Zemus Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 2786 Member No.: 128 Joined: January 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 275 | ya noticed news box etc before looks kwl gj  --------------------  24th to 2496 Overall ~ 29th to 120 Dungeoneering ~ Guardian since November 2007 ~ - I now play WoW lols - Server: US Jubei'Thos Faction: Horde 85 Blood-Elf Paladin 85 Troll Hunter | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 05:32 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 7306 Member No.: 47 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 343 | Sounds good -------------------- July 5, 2007 - June 27, 2011 | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 07:07 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 | I don't think changing the banner size will do us any good at all. As Nick said, there will always be a problem with scaling, and since some of our banners (the pixelated skills olympics ones for example) are so precise and so detailed and delicate, they will just look shocking when scaled up/down... However, it cannot stay as it currently is. I'm wondering, is there any way we can fill that space? I don't know what with though. Some sort of.... I want to say forum border or... pattern, design... just thinking out loud here really. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 07:22 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Lefty Group: Emeritus Posts: 3340 Member No.: 1055 Joined: June 30, 2008 Total Events Attended: 211 |  That is a lot of space to fill with a border..... -------------------- | ||||
Posted: June 13, 2010 11:49 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Ubg Fcbruges Group: Emeritus Posts: 1209 Member No.: 1373 Joined: October 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 64 | Fill it with creativity  Eg. put 2 small things on each side, a logo? Something else, i don't know -------------------- Portfolio~~ WG Emeritus - 20 November 2010 ~~ ~~ WG Higher Guardian - 10 November 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Emeritus - 2 July 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Higher Guardian - 27 February 2009 ~~ ~~ WG Guardian - 12 December 2008 ~~ ~~ WG Trial Guardian - 30 October 2008 ~~ | ||||
Posted: June 14, 2010 12:09 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: [JC] Group: Emeritus Posts: 3320 Member No.: 23 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 147 | To be honest, I really don't like the stretched forums  I always liked WG's forums previously because its very easy to read on the old fixed width format. --------------------  Old awards wat Most Mature & Most Honourable Most Dedicated|IRC Freak|Best Emeritus Placeholder lolz | ||||
Posted: June 14, 2010 05:35 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 |
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Posted: June 14, 2010 11:11 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 | Meh; all the other forums I visit(Like Zybez), use a much wider format; remember, if you want a narrow format, you can simply shrink your browser window down a bit. That being said, I've compromised: The max width is a little wider than it originally was(it only scales from 800-1100px), but still allows for scaling down. I've also made the banner scale to match(yes, same aspect ratio), and while it doesn't look -perfect-, its decent at least. I've also instituted a maximum image-width of 600px in posts; hopefully this will stop large screenshots etc. from stretching the forum and making it hard to read. (If you have a large image, post it with a link to the image so people can click to view the full-size image). -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||||
Posted: June 14, 2010 11:23 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Gorgemaster Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 9840 Member No.: 3 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 540 |
Wonderful, many thanks. We just need to ensure that all banners from now on are made with the new sizes, yeah it doesn't matter if they are made with the old sizes, but they will look better if they don't have to be scaled up Robbie - do you have time to do the Event Times tab before you fly out? x -------------------- | ||||
Posted: June 14, 2010 11:23 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Dallar Group: Event Leader Posts: 1899 Member No.: 1957 Joined: July 16, 2009 Total Events Attended: 137 | Robbie, What if a banner made at full-size could scale down instead.. Wouldn't it be a better result? --------------------  Click me if you need cheering up - I guarantee happiness will blossom | ||||
Posted: June 15, 2010 01:34 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Dnovelta Group: Emeritus Posts: 2750 Member No.: 130 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 137 | I'm liking the changes so far. Just out of curiosity, what browsers are our forums made to work best with? I'm assuming FireFox. What about Chrome or Safari? --------------------   | ||||
Posted: June 15, 2010 02:30 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Mmangler Group: Emeritus Posts: 1595 Member No.: 1580 Joined: December 24, 2008 Total Events Attended: 165 | Very nice. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: June 15, 2010 06:55 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: RobbieThe1st Group: Founder Posts: 770 Member No.: 2 Joined: December 26, 2007 Total Events Attended: 49 |
It won't hurt; I'm using CSS to scale it, so its using whatever method your browser wants to make the width fill up the space. On IE6, it may look odd either way, as its using nearest-neighbor scaling.
I try to code with standards-compliant code, and I won't add in any hacks for IE6. I have added some CSS3 codes that are only supported by Mozilla-based and Webkit-based browsers, but thats all visual "chrome". I test with Firefox 3.6.5pre x64 on Linux currently. -------------------- Old Avatar - Paypal donation link I am left handed, and proud of it! Retired from RuneScape. Old forum posts: 2275(s4+s10+wg.com)+1759(z6 old account)+474(z6 new account) Total: 4508 Join date: 4/16/05 | Get Firefox 3.5 now: http://www.getfirefox.com | RobbieSwich for Firefox | ||||
Posted: June 15, 2010 07:37 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Squelchyfish Group: Emeritus Posts: 625 Member No.: 38 Joined: December 30, 2007 Total Events Attended: 71 | Roooobieee, how do i make it so it doesn't auto log me out if i leave the site for like 10 mins. I have remember me and all that lot checked and it doesn't auto delete all my biscuits and milk and stuff. It did this before and i sorted it but icant remember what to do anymorreeeeee --------------------   "Take lobsters because I don't want us to die" -HisLordship on WG pvp PKing, 26 April 2010. | ||||
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