New format for frontpage reviews (comments welcome)

spudthedestroyer

http://www.dead-donkey.com/modules.php? ... ent&id=339

It looks a lot neater imo, but before I add loads of movies with this new format, I'd like some feedback on improvements (if there are any, if its fine don't make me do extra work! :lol:

)

Should be even easier than using the VB program I made ages ago using this method too

avatar · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:47 pm **Post subject:**

looks good to me! :mrgreen:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:50 pm **Post subject:**

sub links will always be there, even if no links are available, but apart from that, I think it looks much nicer.

Only problem is, there's no practical way for me to go back and change the previous submissions, so it will be using the template from then on. That will be lacking in consistancy I guess, but who really cares about that :wacky:

The_Skull · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 5:54 pm **Post subject:**

Looks great mate!

Like I said before, when I found this forum I was the happiest man on earth and I do want to thank you and all people working on this forum for giving us the unholy place on inet. Thanks for that and keep up the great work!

paul-scream22 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:18 pm **Post subject:**

Good job spud.

I like that a whole lot more then the old style.

Much better on the eye.

No complaints with the new 1 :mrgreen:

Decypher · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:20 pm **Post subject:**

Very very good!

One suggestion though. You may change the link color to a more distinct color, instead of using grey link over a grey background.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:22 pm **Post subject:**

The_Skull wrote:

Looks great mate!

Like I said before, when I found this forum I was the happiest man on earth and I do want to thank you and all people working on this forum for giving us the unholy place on inet. Thanks for that and keep up the great work!

why thank you god sir, have a dollar!
:mrgreen:

So ed2k links are easy to find and all? (i did try and put them right in the middle of the screen :lol:

)

EagleEater · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:26 pm **Post subject:**

It looks far better to me, but on my 17" 1024x768 monitor a portion of the review text on the right is being masked by the boxes that are there. There possibly needs to be some resizing or a horozontal scroll bar added Spud.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 6:36 pm **Post subject:**

EagleEater wrote:

It looks far better to me, but on my 17" 1024x768 monitor a portion of the review text on the right is being masked by the boxes that are there. There possibly needs to be some resizing or a horozontal scroll bar added Spud.

are you by any chance using the abomination that makes my life so f*cking hard known as Internet Explorer?

EagleEater · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:33 pm **Post subject:**

Spud wrote:

are you by any chance using the abomination that makes my life so f*cking hard known as Internet Explorer?

'Fraid so chap.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:47 pm **Post subject:**

once again, its 100% m$ fault. IE doesn't properally interpret table dimensions (i had the table at 100%, which is completely W3 standard and mozilla and opera see that fine). So what does IE do? Indent the table 10% (there is zero code telling it to do anything of the sort) so 10% spills over the damn page :roll:

That is nothing but shoddy coding. Anyway, thx for reporting:
http://www.dead-donkey.com/modules.php? ... ent&id=339
Better?

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and use this theme, its slightly modified to be more "IE compliant", which means not only complying to html standard, but m$ effort at trying to use it too :roll:

Feedback is most welcome, and bug reports just as welcome

BTW, you may want to consider a better browser too

EagleEater · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 7:51 pm **Post subject:**

Ooh that's much better Spud. Looks spanking georgeous does that.

Yeah, am gonna try a new browser after an impending format.

:beerchug:

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:29 pm **Post subject:**

double thx.

Help me, help you, help yourself :lol:

Purple.Nightmare · **Posted:** Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:06 pm **Post subject:**

gotta say almost neva visit teh front page since i started using teh forums but just had a browse (prob teh 1st time this year :oops:

) and looks pretty kool. gotta question tho is there content (linkwise) that aint in the forums?

Decypher · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 1:09 am **Post subject:**

By the way spud, just noticed. At the right hand side it says 'Donatations' instead of 'Donations'

And I still think that another link color would be better.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 4:35 am **Post subject:**

the red + white don't go too good together IMO.

layout is much better though.

Jynks · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 7:58 am **Post subject:**

The user comment area is the best adition to that page... top stuff.

@John_Doe Yea I'm not a fan of the white (whiel we at it the whit forum logo clashes with the colour of everythign else as well)

@spudthedestroyer wat bowser do you use? I use Opera mainly. Oh and that movie link dose not have a screen ratio.. I think that is very important info weather it is full screenn or letter boxed etc etc

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:08 pm **Post subject:**

Jynks wrote:

@spudthedestroyer wat bowser do you use? I use Opera mainly. Oh and that movie link dose not have a screen ratio.. I think that is very important info weather it is full screenn or letter boxed etc etc

The screen info isn't always present on imdb when it imports the info, so the resolution must be utilised to derive that I'm afraid. There should never be any uncropped boarders so if you divide the horizonatal by the vertical, you will get the 1:XYZ ratio.

Decypher wrote:

By the way spud, just noticed. At the right hand side it says 'Donatations' instead of 'Donations'

And I still think that another link color would be better.

lmao, fixed

Quote:

I'm not a fan of the white (whiel we at it the whit forum logo clashes with the colour of everythign else as well)

I think that's one of the reasons the forum hit counter has gone up. It is only present on one page for unregistered peeps. If you have any other suggestions for the forum logo:
http://forum.dead-donkey.com/viewtopic.php?t=3270

Quote:

the red + white don't go too good together IMO.

Do you have a preference over what is better on Red? Luminosity is not apparant, so contrast seemed to be the best way imo.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:25 pm **Post subject:**

I'm not very good at webdesign so no... but must you use that tone of red? The combination of colors reminds me of jogging shoes. :lol:

What aboot Pink? (kidding :wink:

)

noticed another tiny nitpicking flaw.
see the frame around 'Starring' is thick, whereas the one around 'Notes' is thin.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Fri Apr 02, 2004 2:56 pm **Post subject:**

Okay you got a choice of colours then:
1)

2)

2b)

3)

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