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General Discussion /
« on: May 02, 2004, 04:30:46 am »
Nuculear: are you telling me you would rather have a great game community and a page that looks like crap and is 90% text, or a great graphical, extreamly imformitive page? adding flash to a page dosent take from the content, and 98% of browsers are flash and javascript compatible... the step from html and css to javascripting, asp, php, and flash is the diffrence between enjoying a website and not enjoying one... let me take back my previous statement abour an entire flash page, beacuse yes, theyre are the obvious downfalls of it.. yet to rather have a poor lookign page over a great looking and enjoyable page, is a stupid thing to beleive... i see your points, yet if i could wait 3 extra seconds the first time i viewed a site, not a page, beacuse if you wont need to  load for evry page, and have it have a great interface, i would go for it.. and that navbar was a 1.somethign second loadtime on a 28.8, and if you dont have a browser that can support flash, i pity you...
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The site is about the game, not the game about the site.

........ if you went to a website, with the worst interfase you had ever seen, and decided to not play the game beacuse you felt the website sucked so much the game would probally suck too, then the game turns out being one of the greatest mmo\'s ever, wouldnt you feel shitty? and if you had a great gameing community wouldnt you feel shitty if people didn\'t play your game beacuse your website wasnt that great? you may not think these are revelent points, yet in today\'s online society, haveing a good website is evrything. If someone if oging to come to this community, the first thing to be impressed opun them is the website, is it not? proove me wrong? so how could a site with asp and javascripts, in today\'s society with allmost evryone using either IE, netscape, or a mozilla browser, how could such a site hurt the game?? what rock have you been living under where you can believe that flash and javascripts could actually hurt a site? i see your points, how the loadtime would be affected, yet i dont see how likeing the way a page looks could make it more cumbersome.. features like flash and javascripts arent un neaded in todays world, its a competitive world where evryone wants to look better than evryone else, and extra features on a website are what people like. so how can you oppose the opinions of millions of people?

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« on: May 01, 2004, 09:50:37 pm »
ok, you say a game dosent need a good website, yet look at any great game that has 10k+ members, and tell me they dont have a great looking website... A website is ment to deliver information in an enjoyable menner, not like opening a book and reading black and white text, but to be something that looks appealing to the readers eyes. A game isant nessicarly  made by its website, but a website is allmost alyas the first impression, and evryone knows first impressions are alyas the most importiant of knowing someone..
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    the site is peoples portal to the communit, and how do you expect the community to grow if people think that its the same thing happening as it was 2 months before when they checked in??


Right, a site is the portal to the community. But if someone came to the community, liked it, and stayed, I doubt he\'ll leave in two months just because the site haven\'t changed.


what im sayign is for people who the first time around didnt really get too into the game, but for them to one day think back, and reber this game, and decide to visit the site again, he/she would probally be more likely to look around at a new layout, even if it had the exact same content... i know you guys are worried about people who use browsers that dont support flash, and thats understandable, and can be accomidated for, yet im here to provide options for developent. im pretty good with action scriptiong and just wanted to try to make this page a little better.

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« on: May 01, 2004, 08:06:47 pm »
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Chickens can and do fly


chickens only have the energy to get themselves about 10 ft off the ground , and couldnt support themselves up there for more than a minute. i dont know where you heard they they could, but i think youve attacked too many chickens on zelda....

and mabey if they only had the energy to hold theyre wings out for a limited ammount of time, yet as the skill increased, you oculd use it for longer, thus allowing you to glide from higher heights...

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General Discussion /
« on: May 01, 2004, 07:51:11 pm »
I dont know why evryone is so anti flash...

what is it thet people dislinke so much about flash?? its a great web develoment tool, not jsut for intro;s or layouts,. but for content to be worked into html pages...
you say you dont want to make a \'fancy\' nav bar, why not??
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Why have flash nav? To make the site look better?
Why would the site have to look better? Is it a game that the PS Team are working on, or a website?


Exactly why you should have flash... who wants to look at a page that dose nothing? mabey you do, but i know i wouldnt enjoy it.... besides, who said the PS team had to all turn into web developing zombies? they are workign on the game, i jsut made a nav bar and offered a few ideas to promote the community, with a better looking web site. thats why you would want the site to look better, people look at the page after 3 years like i did a few days ago, and seeing that nothing has changed. i allmost left after i saw the in complete intro ( has stayed the same for over a year!) and the exact same layout from 15 million months ago! im just trying to shape up the site, the site is peoples portal to the communit, and how do you expect the community to grow if people think that its the same thing happening as it was 2 months before when they checked in??

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« on: May 01, 2004, 07:07:19 pm »
i changed it,and it looks beter.....
if you want a yellow font, i can do that, but i dont think this looks too bad.....

http://host.deluxnetwork.com/tman/www/freaktrap/nav.html

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« on: April 28, 2004, 10:54:26 pm »
http://host.deluxnetwork.com/tman/www/freaktrap/nav.html

i havent linked it all yet, but i did fic the issue with the border just dieing off, and this is about the same width as the old banner\'s table-cell width...
use the html page(it autosizes the swf), but the swf is here..
http://host.deluxnetwork.com/tman/www/freaktrap/nav.swf

linkings done...... someone leave some feedback?

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General Discussion /
« on: April 28, 2004, 09:16:52 pm »
ive done some emssing with flahs, and i could make the nav and stiff in flahs, but the content area could eb sotred in HTML docs, rhater than txt, the txt would take forever, and be un efficent, but if you dont like the flash idea, i coudl mess arround and make a new set of buttons for the layout...  the Yellow Link\'s jsut dont look all that great, or mabey jsut a flash navbar... im jsut makeing som suggesitons, and af for the intro is someone could contact me with the original FLA file, i could finish it in a short time....


sorry for the spelling im really in a rush right now to get somehtign finished, and an idea for a nav bar.......

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General Discussion / Web Development
« on: April 27, 2004, 11:36:12 pm »
I was un sure where else to post this, and figured this would be the best place...

I have been watyching the development of the PlaneShift Community, for quite a long time, and have knoticed one thing sence nearly the begining... the Exact same website, and the un complete intro...

I just was wondering if you would like it if i were to finish the previous intro or to create a new one, as well as convert the entire site into a flash page.

If i were to do it, i could be able to edit the flash at any time to add new sections, and would be able to incorperate the current layout into the designe as well.

I would probaly be able to incorperate actionscripts to allow the flash to open txt files or whatever format you prefer, to read from files to allow you to easly update the news sections at any time.

I would be extreamly intrested in embarking upon this project, and am eager to help in the production of what has the potential to become one of the best MMORPG\'s online.....


              Please Contact me at FreakTrap@aol.com

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