Help with the Q-gears website.

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UPDATE: I added a quick description to the left of the link you're hovering over.
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I think that the idea is great, but isn't the description rather far away from the tabs? At least I have to point my eyes to that corner to read it, and if I want to want to select different tab I have to point my eyes to the other corner, so that I can see where the mouse pointer is going. :)

Style-wise it's a good place, but usability-wise... I'm not so sure.

Just my two cents. :)
 
That's a thought. I played a bit with positioning and I think you'll enjoy the result. However, Opera completely shut down on this type of manipulation. The first tag it found had the proper CSS applied -- everything else was bugged. If I rolled over the links fast enough, text in the wrong position would appear, invisible. I would have to roll over the links quickly, then hit Ctrl+A. Sometimes, when rolling fast enough other the links, the text would appear partially. I'm blaming this bug on the browser and not the code as Internet Explorer (hell for web design) worked with only minor CSS edits. I disabled the feature completely in Opera.

I started the RSS reader and got a simple class working. It's a littler tougher than I thought it would be, which is suprising because it's mostly array manipulation.

The page should start coming together soon, just need framework. 8-)

http://www.rexyrex.hostmatrix.org/qgears -- for those who don't like scrolling up.
 
Also, FeuFeu, is the image background the same as the div background? In your screenshot, it doesn't look like it. I dunno why the background would appear white, the div on the right uses the same method of choosing color. :|
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Oh, didn't noticed that :? Well, I'll look into it Monday.

About the link descriptions, it might be easier to use the title attribute : the description would then appear in a tooltip and you wouldn't have to worry about its position or visibility.
 
That's a thought. I played a bit with positioning and I think you'll enjoy the result. However, Opera completely shut down on this type of manipulation. The first tag it found had the proper CSS applied -- everything else was bugged. If I rolled over the links fast enough, text in the wrong position would appear, invisible. I would have to roll over the links quickly, then hit Ctrl+A. Sometimes, when rolling fast enough other the links, the text would appear partially. I'm blaming this bug on the browser and not the code as Internet Explorer (hell for web design) worked with only minor CSS edits. I disabled the feature completely in Opera.
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Yep, this is better. Other option would be the tooltips, of course. They just don't look that fancy.

Completely? The 'News'-tab still seems to display its description in my Opera 9 Beta and Opera 7.54.
 
Hah, Opera was ignoring display: none; also. Anyways, I've finally got an RSS reader and such working. It was taking me such a long time because I couldn't test locally (Apache crashed every time I tried to grab the XML contents). However, it worked on my webhost and I'm sure the problem is attributed to my computer. When I was testing it on my webhost, I was noticing that it took about five seconds to parse the XML file and such. Because of this, I decided to have the news cached whenever you tell the page to cache it. After testing the caching I noticed that it was loading the XML much more quickly, so the problem must of been with my host (it is a shared host after all).

You can update the cache by going here: http://www.rexyrex.hostmatrix.org/qgears/?admin=loadnews.

However, I might remove caching later as speed isn't an extremely important issue.

Now I'm off to style/position the news, and next I'll optimize the XML handling a bit then make the content (not the tabs) dynamic.

UPDATE: The news is styled and if there's any suggestions you might have I'm very open to them. :) Also, it's been a real hassle uploading php source files, so I'm going to remove those unless someone actually wants to view them. Also, halkun, any HTML put into your news posts will be shown. CSS styles will also be applied. Any HTML you put in a post that becomes malformed by the styles on the homepage can be fixed, but it's not necessary to add to the stylesheet yet unless you put conflicting elements in your posts.
 
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I finally got my RSS reader working. Basically, I got the aggregator (Feed2JS) put into the content of a cutenews post. Now all I have left to do is to replace the links on the sidebar with images, and replace some of the content with something a little less "demo" and it will be just what I'm going for.

You can still access it here.

edit: I just fixed the issue that was preventing HTML in the RSS feed from working.

edit again: Added button images for the sidebar, along with links to project page and forums. These are only temporary, because I don't have Photoshop at home. I will make better ones at school on Monday.
 
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This is looking good.. ^_^

I hope you do something with the font up on top

HOME
is a little big.........
 
I think I'll make individual logos for each portion. The size was deliberate; I wanted it to line up with the logo on the side. I guess I can just put it lower, though.
 
UPDATE!

I have redesigned the buttons on the sidebar, and the boring text at the top has been replaced by images, based on what part of the site you're at.
 
I got this in a PM from RPGillespie
You should make your buttons (Q-Gears website) do something on mouse-over. Perhaps have a peice of Materia appear next to the button title? To me that makes a site a lot... funner?... to interact with. Kind of like NobodyImportant's site.
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The idea is kind of nice, but I feel it adds bloat to the page; it takes longer to create and longer to load, with barely any added benefit. Not only that, but I don't actually know how to do that.

For the record, you don't need to PM me with this stuff.
 
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This is a page I messed around with, its NOT the final product and only one page, but its just for ideas..

http://romzforum.awardspace.com
The domain was origionally for another purpose but that was lost...

I will install a forum, ( im thinking SFM, mabye phpBB ) but it would then need the adress changed to qgears.awardspace.com mabye, if money is put into it, q-gears.com
 
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For the record, you don't need to PM me with this stuff.
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Couldn't you have just told him that in a PM?  The whole point of a private message is to keep it private.  Instead you go on and quote it.  He was just making a reccomendation directed at you,(a nice idea by the way  :-)) not the forum.  I don't really see the problem with PMing you ideas, especially if he wanted to just keep it private.

Just some advice.  As a developer, if you go around quoting your PMs people will be reluctant to give you their input or advice.  Without those, you may not achieve the best overall product.  In the end we all just want a great looking website for this great project, right?  :-)

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Very nice layout VIN.., oh I mean Abhishek Sukhadia.  The color scheme looks great also.
 
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I like your layout for the most part, Vincentval, but some aspects of it feel a bit redundant. For example, why put the roster both on the side and in a link on top?

Also, I have a smaller version of that logo if you want, so that it doesn't squeeze funny, if you want. Web browsers are not generally advisable for resizing.

Those lines are written in the page source. Didn't you see it?
 
Aww damn, You posted after I finished my edit, aww well.. I did'nt do that, its the pages first design, I am in the process of editing it, and adding pages... The rosters will stay there and the Roster PAGE will be contact info

That is if Halkun approves the page
 
EDIT: OK! Fine I admit it, It wasn't my template, but I never said it was mine either
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Don't tell me, next you'll probably admit that you are ButBut? :-D

Ok, I've had my fun. I'll stop spamming now. :-)
 
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