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General Discussion /
« on: March 26, 2005, 08:14:31 pm »
i really don\'t see why theres such a big problem with non-rpg names? what skin is it off your nose? so what if a player wants to have some indaviduality and not conform? i\'m not talking about offensive names here. i fully aggree that they have no place in the game. however i do think that non-rpg names are no big deal.

frankly i\'m quite happy to RP, but i find the fantasy RP names dull and generic. alot of the time they\'re a mash of random sylables stuck together because they sound fantasy-ish. if a name has meaning to the player and represents something to them i think it\'s unreasonable to ask them to change.

i\'m sure i\'m going to get flamed for this but like the name it\'s my opinion and i\'m entitled to voice it. luckily i have the precaution of a flame retardent suit.

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General Discussion /
« on: June 03, 2004, 06:49:10 pm »
how do u stop a dwarf from drowning?

take your foot off it\'s head.

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General Discussion /
« on: May 03, 2004, 11:59:59 pm »
fair play :) i was supprised when i was told about it (in a lecture incedentally) so i had to check it out myself.

oh yeah, welcome to the EU. not sure how good a deal you guys are getting though.

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General Discussion /
« on: May 02, 2004, 04:47:07 pm »
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I dont know why evryone is so anti flash...


i\'m not anti flash at all, in fact i work as a web designer and specialise in flash, i am also in my final year of an IT degree that involves web development.

however, the current site is good, it doesn\'t need anything else. the nav is simple and easy to use. it wears it\'s theme well and it\'s clean. the thing about flash is that it can be used to great effect in the right circumstances. however, flash for the sake of flash is unecisarry.

one of the other things about flash is it has poor accesability. it can\'t be read by text readers, you can\'t have alt tags for imageless veiwing, it has a big problem when it comes to search engines as the only \"hooks\" it can offer them are meta tags from the html document that the flash site sits on.

if done wrong flash can look aweful if not worse than poorly done html as the development interface has few constraints about what can and can\'t be done in regards to placement, etc...

personally i love flash, because of some of the things that can be created with it. but the menu system you created, i.e. 2 state rollovers could quite easily have been done in HTML. i\'m not trying to bash your work i\'m just stateing facts.

oh and hook... here is a link to the macromedia site where they have Statistics regarding browser flash support. quite beliveable when you think that flash player has been shipped with most windows and apple o/s\'s for the last few years.

nice links by the way. seen zengarden b4 but not the blender site.

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« on: April 29, 2004, 08:17:25 pm »
no offence. but, the origional html menu looks better, the yellow stands out. your buttons don\'t really have any coherency with the background they sit upon, they look more like buttons for a tech site.

you could try and play with the theme a little more.  which is fantasy. one of the good things about flash is the ability to import other media into it. such as jpg\'s .png\'s and gif\'s. you don\'t have to do everything in vector format. experiment in photoshop with createing an actual \"interface\" and not just some buttons stuck onto the interface that already exists.

when your thinking about changeing an html website to a flash website you have to keep in mind that there has to be a bonified reason for doing it.

\"because it\'s flash\" isn\'t a good reason, you have to make it superior and play on flash\'s benefits.

also think about font choice aswell. flash has a tendency to \"blur\" fonts that aren\'t pixel fonts. this basically means that flash is very poor at aliasing.

you can get pixel fonts here: http://www.fontsforflash.com/ but these ones might be a bit too tech for this kinna site but it\'ll give you an idea of what i mean.

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