TheMazeController
Well I finished with my buttons.
Now I am trying to decide on layout. I am supposed to work with HurstGM on it when he gets a chance, we had a minor scheduling conflict last time and I am waiting to hear back from him so I can get this new layout up.
While I wait I thought I would gauge the temperature of the crowd since you guys were helpful when I was working on my banner.
Which Layout do you Favor?
"Option 1":http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff300/A-G-A/MockUp1-1.png - Internal navigation bar
"Option 2":http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff300/A-G-A/MockUp2-1.png - External floating nav bar
Vote and be heard!
Please disregard the sloppiness of my mock up it is just pasted together images (some buttons are missing as well). I am sure the actual layout will be elegant enough (I pray).
Also I wont have to re-size the buttons right? I just made them all huge size in gimp and figured when we place them via code we can re-size as needed?
Comments
As far as the re-size, if you do it in code they will stretch/shrink- always best to get them all to the correct size in gimp- I learned that the hard way (thanks Wolfhound & Morrinn for fixing my head)
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Just trying to help out.
Arrgh! I will start the size conversion now then. I should be all set by the time I (hopefully) hear from HurstGM.
I was going to work on the other stuff tonight (starter kits and the like).
Thanks!
-Steve
"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/star-trek-late-night
"Duskreign's CotM December 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/wyrmshadow/wikis/122011
"CotM January 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=star-trek-late-night-januarys-cotm
Also, it said Sponsors. You have Sponsors?
-Ken See
Get the site layout up
Work on Starter Kits for my players
Conduct an interview that will be going up on the site
Network with some folks about what I think will be a really interesting side result of the initial BWF effort
Write an article that is going in a magazine coming out at the end of the month
Recruit 6 more players - we only have 14 on the roster at the moment
A few other things too. Most of the stuff is under wraps however. I would rather reveal it when it is ready.
This is what happens when I have too much time on my hands. My job will start getting busy again soon tho so I really really need to knock this stuff out asap so I am free to like also be a half decent GM come the 28th. otherwise this is all for nothing anyhow. I dont want to cheat my players out of what should be a fun game to begin with.
Somehow I believe it will all work itself out tho.
By the time the 28th does roll around there will be some massive changes that have happened and new things happening with BWF.
I was thinking that the side navigation will be for general site navigation and the bar below the banner would be for players. Perhaps I should look at the option of going double row below the banner and forego a side bar entirely.
Hrrrmn time for another mock-up perhaps.
Thank You Savannah, you always have good feedback.
*Edit* For some reason people think that my mock ups are screencaps of a coded page - they aren't they are images created in Gimp - I have 0 html skill I am starting from 0. I am learning as I go.
"Option 3":http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff300/A-G-A/MockUp3.png
And since that is actually an OP test page would anyone like to work with me on why some of the damn buttons aren't lining up properly?
**Edit** - Fixed buttons on my own, got an assist on the placement of the front banner (different requirement from the wiki pages I've learned) last thing I need to do is work on the comments page. If anyone has a bit of free time I would like to get that knocked out so I can meet my self imposed deadline of site complete site overhaul by the 13th.
Oh and before I forget to ask, no one has figured out how to put a custom nav bar on the calendar huh?
Right now all the buttons run together and its hard to distinguish one from another. Just my 2 cents though.
How now brown cow?
"Bad Wrong Fun":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/bad-wrong-fun
I like the basic format, though, so I hope you can get the bugs worked out!
I am working on the fix now ... thanks so much for alerting me to this by the way.
In Internet Explorer 9, the buttons aren't hanging off the edge, but they're set too low -- the last one (Calendar) is halfway off the bottom of the screen (so I don't know if it's actually the last one or not).
Anyone smarter than me have a suggestion?
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It is what I use to keep them at top and left at all times.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"Duskreign's First Ever COTM":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Just trying to help out.