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#8888: Re: website

by Drakas on 08/28/2007 23:43, refers to #8880

you really need to work on it more ;)

for maps - www.quadropolis.us is the de facto map sharing site.

your site's colour scheme really hurts my eyes. Try to start with something clean (no layout elements, JUST content = plain HTML).

Mailing lists, forums ?! Really way too much! Learn about KISS (Keep it simple, stu*id!).

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#8889: Re: ..

by Drakas on 08/28/2007 23:46, refers to #8886

huh? You can't simply immerse people to use your blogging service, your forums, your mailing lists.....

Best place to get a weblog - http://www.tumblr.com/

We (woop clan) use Tumblr to post screenshots and so on. Really easy.


IF you want to start a Sauerbraten community, then ask for people's advice first, it would help you a LOT :)

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#8890: Re: ..

by Titanic12ship on 08/29/2007 00:09, refers to #8889

If I just use plain html, everyone will say it has no style. It's just plain. That's not what I want. I want a great-looking Sauerbraten community that has a ton of features.

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#8891: ..

by randomcivilian [just found linux] on 08/29/2007 00:14

here, take a look at this site:
www.freewebs.com/figames/
i made that with buttons from frontpage.

also the Sauerbraten homepage has plenty of style and simplicity.

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#8892: Re: ..

by w4 ¿?¿?¿ on 08/29/2007 01:22, refers to #8890

Flash is better as long as people dont have laggy computers and provided you can acutaully use it.

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#8893: help!!!

by dingo on 08/29/2007 02:13

when i shoot it does not effect enemy im tried of it there is a white like blast like when you shoot a wall when your really close!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! plz plz plz help me plz plz ={
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#8894: plzz reply to help!!!!

by dingo on 08/29/2007 02:26

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#8895: Message censored by administrator

by Furrymeister on 08/29/2007 03:38

#8896: Re: ..

by tentus_ on 08/29/2007 05:19, refers to #8890

"If I just use plain html, everyone will say it has no style. It's just plain."

OK, now I'm insulted. Please don't email me. (and btw, I was able to completely duplicate your page with handwritten html, css, and javascript. nothing serverside, nothing fancy, but a lot more efficient, and easy to make it better looking.)

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#8897: Re: ..

by demosthenes on 08/29/2007 08:10, refers to #8890

Plain HTML is one of the things I value most, because, when it accomplishes the purpose at hand -- to provide a single page from which I can download say, a set of sauerbraten levels -- it is the fastest and best way to do it.

Your website is just fluff right now. You have far too many "community" features and no community to use them. You can't build a community with the levels you have or your web design skills, so why bother?

Best advice I can give: Learn basic HTML. Make a page with some text, one table, and no formatting. Provide direct download links on the main page (You have no other real pages anyway, so don't bother making more), along with direct links to a screenshot or two, list the version it's meant to be used with and the name of the map with a description. That's if you think you absolutely need to share those "maps" with the community. I could make those in less than half an hour apiece.

Take some time on your maps. Create something small and texture it properly. Look around the real world and try to emulate some things that you see.

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#8898: ..

by djGentoo on 08/29/2007 08:37

If you didn't use plain HTML, then what *did* you use? A WYSIWTF editor like FrontPage? Meh...

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#8899: Re: ..

by Drakas on 08/29/2007 11:27, refers to #8890

no, plain HTML will let you add clean CSS, get it?

Feh, frontpage >(

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#8900: Re: ..

by Passa on 08/29/2007 12:21, refers to #8899

A word of advice kids, don't challenge Drakas to anything web development related ;)

Had to laugh today when my mum suggested she make her website using Word.. *sigh*

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#8901: Plain

by Titanic12ship on 08/29/2007 15:43

I made a test page to see if what it looks like is what you are all talking about. I think this is more plain than the other pages.http://e.macsrule.googlepages.com/test2

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#8902: Re: Plain

by Passa on 08/29/2007 15:58, refers to #8901

Personally, I think you're going for one demographic there with a website subdomain like macsrule ;)

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#8903: Plain

by Titanic12ship on 08/29/2007 16:52

Does this look plainer? http://e.macsrule.googlepages.com/downloads

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#8904: Message censored by administrator

by ThomasX on 08/29/2007 18:43

#8905: Re: Plain

by Drakas on 08/29/2007 20:20, refers to #8903

No.
Look at the HTML of http://drakas.woop.us/stuff/
That's how it should look at least ;)

Or... when talking about plain, what you really need to consider is something like this:
http://cub.edu.ms/

If you start from the basic basics you'll make it to more complex and advanced projects.

I mean... this is just raw and plain HTML. After all, it is the content that matters (at least for the start) :)

Learn how to use Description Lists to list stuff like maps and so on. Will help.

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#8906: Re: Plain

by Drakas on 08/29/2007 20:23, refers to #8903

Plain means no styling :)

You have "SuaerWeb", by the way (the title of the page) :P

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#8907: Re: Plain

by rancor on 08/29/2007 20:33, refers to #8905

Heh, good you put that "at least" in there, otherwise I'd be forced to yell at you for not using XHTML...

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