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The Ready Room => Off Topic => Topic started by: Lightning Blue on November 17, 2003, 08:26:48 AM

Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Lightning Blue on November 17, 2003, 08:26:48 AM: http://www.lunixmonster.net (http://www.lunixmonster.net) needs stuff! :help:

I'm not very good at web design myself, and would like some help. We can make this a group effort, we'll need banners and buttons and pages and content!
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Geminosity on November 17, 2003, 12:29:14 PM: need help with the layout too? I know lots of html (including super obscure secret stuffs of doom) and javascript (though my knowledge is IE biased at the moment ^^; )
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Lightning Blue on November 17, 2003, 12:41:00 PM: My grasp of webpages extends to using frontpage 98 to create this:

http://www.kaycee.net/lightningcomp/ (http://www.kaycee.net/lightningcomp/) :p

So any help would be gratefully accepted.

My basic idea is a Banner, links, and a main page, maybe some news...
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Geminosity on November 17, 2003, 12:50:43 PM: o.O <( ... )

I want to help you even more after seeing that XD
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: BOZO on November 17, 2003, 01:30:43 PM: Wow...I didnt know there were 99 ways to say Very Good :D

Anyway...I can make some banner and stuff
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Uranium - 235 on November 17, 2003, 01:53:46 PM: Well, that's better then i could ever make, LB :)
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Niteowl on November 17, 2003, 01:59:38 PM: there are about a billion, ok, maybe less, NS fan sites out there, i'll post them when i got them gathered, something to get ideas off of.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Niteowl on November 17, 2003, 02:05:10 PM: http://www.thehivemind.org (http://www.thehivemind.org)
http://www.commchair.com (http://www.commchair.com)
http://www.nsplayer.com (http://www.nsplayer.com)
http://nsworld.ns-central.co.uk/Main.php (http://nsworld.ns-central.co.uk/Main.php)
http://planetns.com/ (http://planetns.com/)
http://nsa.wideloader.com/ (http://nsa.wideloader.com/)
http://www.nscentral.com/ (http://www.nscentral.com/)
http://www.nsarmslab.com/ (http://www.nsarmslab.com/)
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Geminosity on November 17, 2003, 02:33:38 PM: the last one just goes to show why everyone should use flash =3
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Niteowl on November 17, 2003, 03:47:26 PM: flash can be incredibly pretty, like that last one. but it takes a bit of work and you need someon who knows flash (usually) to update content and such. it's also not crawlable by search engines.

i can help with flash questions, andpossibly some flash work.. haven't played with it for a long time tho.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Geminosity on November 17, 2003, 03:52:26 PM: I always meant to learn flash but short attention span always won out ov- OOH! SHINEY!!! ~runs off~
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Uranium - 235 on November 17, 2003, 03:53:40 PM: nsarmslab annoys the hell out of me. They need a button for 'De-crapify this place' so when I click a link it takes me exactly where I want, not gives me 12 minutes of swirling crap and flashy logos...
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Goldfish on November 17, 2003, 07:01:12 PM: Decrapification complete.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: BOZO on November 18, 2003, 09:01:58 AM: OMG have a box!
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Dubbilex on November 18, 2003, 12:59:10 PM: Nice, Bozo :)

LB - do you have any certain color scheme in mind?
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Beast on November 18, 2003, 01:20:07 PM: I can code html pretty well, but when it comes to the graphics I am not that good, so we could work it that way or something?
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Lightning Blue on November 18, 2003, 01:37:00 PM: Neon purple with pink pokadots would be just gravy.

>:D

Actually, no, I don't have one in mind. I'm hoping to make this a coop effort.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Dubbilex on November 18, 2003, 01:48:25 PM: Mmmm......gravy.

I'll work with something and see if I can get it looking presentable.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Jefe on November 18, 2003, 02:12:33 PM: Quote
nsarmslab annoys the hell out of me. They need a button for 'De-crapify this place' so when I click a link it takes me exactly where I want, not gives me 12 minutes of swirling crap and flashy logos...
Is there anything you don't hate?
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Malevolent on November 18, 2003, 06:46:51 PM: Quote
nsarmslab annoys the hell out of me. They need a button for 'De-crapify this place' so when I click a link it takes me exactly where I want, not gives me 12 minutes of swirling crap and flashy logos...
lol, I don't think it's that bad. It's pretty sweet, but it does take a little while.
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Dubbilex on November 18, 2003, 07:19:42 PM: I'm on wireless - it didn't take too long for me :huh:
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Fewlio on November 18, 2003, 07:41:23 PM: us "pros" prefer instant, not teh swirly graphix lololololol
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: lolfighter on November 18, 2003, 11:13:20 PM: Quote
Is there anything you don't hate?
It's Uranium - what do you expect?
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: Niteowl on November 19, 2003, 03:35:10 PM: Quote

Quote
nsarmslab annoys the hell out of me. They need a button for 'De-crapify this place' so when I click a link it takes me exactly where I want, not gives me 12 minutes of swirling crap and flashy logos...
Is there anything you don't hate?
heheh,yeah, those are my thoughts too, uranium is sucha curmugdeon :) :p

*runs*
:ph34r:
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: LaYkE on November 20, 2003, 06:36:39 AM: I can ask a few of the krew to give you a hand with the design end of things if you want? IMO when it comes to websites simplicity is often the best

First off i'll need to know what exactly your aiming for? Are you going totally NS or branching other games? Pm me on IRC and i'll try to give as much help as I can.

Best,
Pete
Title: Fun Part Ii: Websites!
Post by: crack on November 22, 2003, 10:29:23 AM: I use to web design but got frustraded with it...

So i used Post-Nuke/PHP-Nuke - a MySQL program that really creates a website for you all you do is provide or make a theme.

I know http://www.nsplayer.com (http://www.nsplayer.com) uses a modified version of phpnuke and http://www.nscentral.com/ (http://www.nscentral.com/) Uses Post-Nuke

some other examples are:
http://www.wmg.warwick.ac.uk/ (http://www.wmg.warwick.ac.uk/)
http://www.pharmainfo.net/ (http://www.pharmainfo.net/)
http://adam.globalrecordings.net/ (http://adam.globalrecordings.net/)
http://www.coloradopreps.com/ (http://www.coloradopreps.com/)

www.postnuke.com or www.phpnuke.org 2 Different programs, much alike.

You need MySQL/PHP to run these.
Both of these programs are easy to use and require no HTML knowledge, because you login into the website and configure there! You can add news with a click, downloads, polls, also you can download "blocks" which allow you to create other things like Shoutboxes, Picture 'slideshows'.

Theres HUNDREDS of themes...really. But if you wanna buy one theres some sites that offer flash themes and templatemonster.com does some too.

again. www.postnuke.com - more friendly
www.phpnuke.org - the install is a lil confusing