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BadMrBox
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:23 pm    Post subject: Ragnarok is updated [quote]
Yupp, One and a half month later than I expected. Nothing much on it yet either. I have stripped the site on all old games for now so every damn link we have on RPGDX is broken for the moment. Why I did that? To be honest, I have produced alot of garbage and I'm gonna get rid of some of it. From now on I'm going to be more serious and just work with one (or maybe two) games at a time so I can get something done.
The page is not perfect, I realized, as I uploaded it that some of the links have different color than the other ones and everything looks big for me. Waay bigger than on my cpu at home. So, if anyone likes to you could please inform me on what you think of the page.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:24 pm    Post subject: [quote]
Will you also remove the things you removed and refer to as "garbage" from RPGDX, please? ;-)

About the site. I was a little surprised that the news was non-backwards. Besides that I don't like the use of frames I think the site looks ok to me.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:29 pm    Post subject: [quote]
The title is redundant, as it appears on both the left-hand side and on the top. That just screams bad design.

Also, in looking at your source, your HTML usage is a bit out of date. You would probably find page-development to be easier if you, at the very least, put all style alterations -- such as font-family, color, text-decoration, etc. -- into your css file.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject: [quote]
Bjørn: All old rpg's we have made will reappear, reziped with winace. All the other games was never on rpgdx.
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I was a little surprised that the news was non-backwards.
In a good or bad way?
LeoDraco:
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The title is redundant, as it appears on both the left-hand side and on the top. That just screams bad design.
I agree. So did Deuce. But what one shall I remove? Whatever I remove it will look empty.
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Also, in looking at your source, your HTML usage is a bit out of date. You would probably find page-development to be easier if you, at the very least, put all style alterations -- such as font-family, color, text-decoration, etc. -- into your css file.
My HTML usage is a bit out of date? What do you base that one, except the css comments?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:36 pm    Post subject: [quote]
BadMrBox wrote:
Bjørn: All old rpg's we have made will reappear, reziped with winace. All the other games was never on rpgdx.
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I was a little surprised that the news was non-backwards.
In a good or bad way?


Just make sure the most recent news are the first that the visitor sees. If he needs to scroll, something is wrong.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 3:50 pm    Post subject: [quote]
Hmm...yes I see. I thought it was a good way to force people to read my mumbojumbo. I think I shall have it reversed.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:00 pm    Post subject: [quote]
BadMrBox wrote:
Bjørn: All old rpg's we have made will reappear, reziped with winace. All the other games was never on rpgdx.
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I was a little surprised that the news was non-backwards.
In a good or bad way?
LeoDraco:
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The title is redundant, as it appears on both the left-hand side and on the top. That just screams bad design.
I agree. So did Deuce. But what one shall I remove? Whatever I remove it will look empty.
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Also, in looking at your source, your HTML usage is a bit out of date. You would probably find page-development to be easier if you, at the very least, put all style alterations -- such as font-family, color, text-decoration, etc. -- into your css file.
My HTML usage is a bit out of date? What do you base that one, except the css comments?
WinAce? How about using a format people actually use, like ZIP, RAR, or 7Z? (I guess it's not so bad if there are any freeware programs that can decompress ACE, but I've never seen one)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:29 pm    Post subject: [quote]
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LeoDraco:
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The title is redundant, as it appears on both the left-hand side and on the top. That just screams bad design.
I agree. So did Deuce. But what one shall I remove? Whatever I remove it will look empty.


Either, as you would then shift the document either to the left or to the top. Personally, I would get rid of the top image, simply because it is larger and more obtrusive. Course, on the other hand, the left image is also wasting around 50 pixels worth of valuable real-estate all down the height of the window.

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Also, in looking at your source, your HTML usage is a bit out of date. You would probably find page-development to be easier if you, at the very least, put all style alterations -- such as font-family, color, text-decoration, etc. -- into your css file.
My HTML usage is a bit out of date? What do you base that one, except the css comments?


First, you haven't declared a document type, which, while isn't wrong, is bassackwards these days. Plus, if you look at the w3c HTML specifications, the last "pure" version of HTML (4.01) was released in 1999. While the XHTML1.1 specification is barely newer, it was released in 2001.

Course, the caveat is that one need actually be interested in web-standards. Which, from most of the pages/sites thrown out by people whom frequent these boards that I have taken the time to see, doesn't seem to be true.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:17 am    Post subject: [quote]
I find http://validator.w3.org/ very useful.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:13 pm    Post subject: [quote]
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WinAce? How about using a format people actually use, like ZIP, RAR, or 7Z? (I guess it's not so bad if there are any freeware programs that can decompress ACE, but I've never seen one)
Hm... don't people use WA? I believed they did. Doesn't it compress the files better than RAR? It is waay better than WinZIP. 7Z...(dont know what it is for format, some linux thingy?)

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First, you haven't declared a document type, which, while isn't wrong, is bassackwards these days. Plus, if you look at the w3c HTML specifications, the last "pure" version of HTML (4.01) was released in 1999. While the XHTML1.1 specification is barely newer, it was released in 2001.

Well, I got to admit, I use FrontPage04 do to the html. Ocasually(something tells me that didn't end up right) I check the source and do some adjustments. So thoose things is... the fault of big evil incomporated... ...sigh...
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Course, the caveat is that one need actually be interested in web-standards. Which, from most of the pages/sites thrown out by people whom frequent these boards that I have taken the time to see, doesn't seem to be true.

Well, I'm interested. I like my pages to be somewhat welldesigned. Not text covering your screen from the left side all the way to the right and so...
BiggerUniverse:
I checked my page and surely, everything from point 2-15 must surely be bull....? Right?

At least I know I can get better at this stuff :)
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:14 pm    Post subject: [quote]
http://validator.w3.org/ didn't fancy rpgdx.net very much either.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:33 pm    Post subject: [quote]
To be honest. It doesnt like anything as it seems.;/
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 3:36 pm    Post subject: [quote]
I once had a page that weas almost accepted :)
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:19 am    Post subject: [quote]
BadMrBox wrote:
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WinAce? How about using a format people actually use, like ZIP, RAR, or 7Z? (I guess it's not so bad if there are any freeware programs that can decompress ACE, but I've never seen one)
Hm... don't people use WA? I believed they did. Doesn't it compress the files better than RAR? It is waay better than WinZIP. 7Z...(dont know what it is for format, some linux thingy?)

I doubt that any miniscule compression improvement WinACE might provide on small games is worth the amount of effort people will have to go to to find a decompressor, download it, install it, and THEN download and unpack your game.

If you used a self-extractor, though, it wouldn't be quite as bad, but then you have to have Win32 to unpack the games (instead of being able to use any compatible ZIP or RAR unpacker to install it, and then play it in some DOS emulator like Dosbox)
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:18 pm    Post subject: [quote]
When I am writing the HTML for a new page, I get into a feedback loop where I write a little, then run it through the validator, fix invalid HTML, then check again, and so on.

We did this for Tiled

It's like unit testing. You should:

1. write a small unit of the code
2. test it
3. validate it
4. fix bugs and return to 2 until no bugs/validation errors are found
5. return to 1
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