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 Posted: Dec 09, 2006 - 11:16 AM
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| Judas01 wrote: | | Aaha.. the more I switch between the two, the more sense it makes. I gotta say though, I don't really dig the Quake for logo picture that you have as the background, it's not that it's a crap pic, just that it looks kinda low res, especially in comparison to the autothemes backdrop. I'd say overall what I'm bitching about is just that the entire page doesn't seem to blend, if you know what I mean... But thanks for giving me a better perspective of it from your side of the deal. |
Before, this site used to have a different theme (more of a red & black Quake 3 Arena theme). But when Quake 4 came out in October 2005, Div switched the theme to the green & black theme that it is now. We were all expecting Q4 to have a big impact in the online community, but it ended up not being very popular after its release.
Q3A seems to be on the rebound now, ever since the CPL announced its switch back to Quake 3 Arena for the tournament. Perhaps we should switch back to our old Q3A theme?
By the way, it's good to finally see some activity on this forum.  |
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Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 08:58 PM
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| I play a game or two a week. Not at all like the old days. Quake 4 just didn't have that "real" fast paced feel as quake 3, so I didn't get into it. There still are allot of players on servers for Quake 3, so if you ever get the internet up, there will be players to hose. |
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Posted: Dec 07, 2006 - 04:00 PM
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| Damn player, I havent played quake in almost a year and a half now. Since I got my new place I havent got the internet. I was gettin too addicted man! Almost ruined my life for real Damn Quake! I'm thinkin about gettin the internet soon. I guess I will have to break down and ruin my life afterall!!!! So how's quakin goin?Everyone playin Q4 or are there still people playin Q3? I need to get in contact with all the old crew. See if [m]achines are still out there. I talk to you all later |
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Posted: Dec 06, 2006 - 09:12 PM
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Hey, Glad to hear from ya. It's been a a long time, hell, too long. So how ya been. Do you still use the name ignite in quake, or do you play at all anymore? Anyways, thanks for the site compliment, hope to hear from you some more.
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Posted: Dec 06, 2006 - 05:02 PM
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| wussup Div. I just thought I'd drop by and say hi to all of you. Site looks nice man. I should be back and quakin one of these days! I think I have my email visible for all...hit me up sometime and keep me informed |
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Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 05:40 PM
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| Yeah, the EA forums is how this forum is normally. I made the changes to do what this one does now. I removed the background colors to make it see through. I thought it was cool when I made it. LOL. That was about a year or so ago. When I get time, I'll look into some changes, it's about due anyways. |
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Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 09:48 AM
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Hahahahaha! Smooth move with the permissions there.
Personally, I actually prefer the idea of a quake theme, what with quake borders and buttons and what have you. As opposed to a still image to which the rest of the page scrolls seperately. To me it also seems like a better way to get around the whole, 'clearer-text' issue. Check out the EA forums. They recently upgraded and changed the entire layout of the site. They added this wierd interactive flash animation thing in the corner that animates each time your cursor goes over it. Anyway, the point is that, the feed back I read from the forum users was mostly negative, however, it was sugar coated in a way, but mostly, the users were dissatisfied with the fact that the page was scrolling independantly from its background image, on top of which the guys who remade the site had this bright idea to make forum threads scroll seperately to the entire site, which really seemed to tick the users off. Im actually on my cellphone now, using a java application called Opera Mini to browse your site, and the backdrop doesnt show up at all... Not that it matters, I doubt you're expecting many mobile phone users.
Ooh, check out how the EA site has an opaque layer over the background. |
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Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 09:46 AM
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Hahahahaha! Smooth move with the permissions there.
Personally, I actually prefer the idea of a quake theme, what with quake borders and buttons and what have you. As opposed to a still image to which the rest of the page scrolls seperately. To me it also seems like a better way to get around the whole, 'clearer-text' issue. Check out the EA forums. They recently upgraded and changed the entire layout of the site. They added this wierd interactive flash animation thing in the corner that animates each time your cursor goes over it. Anyway, the point is that, the feed back I read from the forum users was mostly negative, however, it was sugar coated in a way, but mostly, the users were dissatisfied with the fact that the page was scrolling independantly from its background image, on top of which the guys who remade the site had this bright idea to make forum threads scroll seperately to the entire site, which really seemed to tick the users off. Im actually on my cellphone now, using a java application called Opera Mini to browse your site, and the backdrop doesnt show up at all... Not that it matters, I doubt you're expecting many mobile phone users |
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Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 08:58 AM
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Yeah, I get what your saying. I could have done it that way. I kinda liked having the background image behind everything and having it fixed. (so everything scrolls over the non moving background) That way you can scroll the page and get to see the whole image. The background image is the Quake logo in the center with the Quake4 character on either side facing the logo. I made about 10 different images and had to blurr and dull them down to be able to have the page readable.
If you notice on the front page, there are black, see through panels for the text. I wish I could do that in the forum as well, but I never could get it to layout right. The site administration area is broken right now (I screwed up my own permissions) so I will be upgrading some day soon. When I get allot of time to go through the upgrade, I may start playing with fixing some of these bugs. We'll have to see what kind of time I get and if I get the motivation to do it, LOL. |
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Posted: Nov 24, 2006 - 06:49 AM
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| That's one thing I actually was considering, regarding the background image. Now that you've explained it to me, it does make more sense, but does it have to be seperate to the text boxes or fields or whatever you want to call it. That's kinda what I meant when I said that I don't feel as if the page blends. Isn't it possible to make a... Crap, I dont know how to describe it, because I'm not sure what it's called. Check out the Prophecy forums, I don't think it's the sexiest page I've ever seen, but you'll notice, it's all one solid page. Maybe that will compensate for my lack of adjectives. He He Heee |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2006 - 06:07 PM
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The background image <b>is</b> low rez. Accually I blurred it. If it was clear and crisp, the highlights would make the text unreadable. The whites in the picture would make the white text disapear. I had to play a balancing act to get the image clear, yet the text readable. Since it's a background, i thought I did OK. Now the images at the top, I had plans to chamge. I had one member who took those screen caps and sent them in and I put them on top. You can give it a go at getting some clear screen caps and I'll put them up. The site was intended to be everyones site. You get the goods and it's on the site.
Hope to hear more from you in the future. Don't forget if you find a server, let me know and I'll add it to the server list. |
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Posted: Nov 23, 2006 - 11:39 AM
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Aaha.. the more I switch between the two, the more sense it makes. I gotta say though, I don't really dig the Quake for logo picture that you have as the background, it's not that it's a crap pic, just that it looks kinda low res, especially in comparison to the autothemes backdrop. I'd say overall what I'm bitching about is just that the entire page doesn't seem to blend, if you know what I mean... But thanks for giving me a better perspective of it from your side of the deal.
I suppose that plug is pretty cool, like I've mentioned to you personally before, I'm not that well accustomed to online, ah screw, I might as well start a new thread about it, I have a whooole lot I've been meaning do squeeze out and leave stinking on a forum thread somewhere...  |
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Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 07:18 AM
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Yes I know how to tweak the themes in here. As a matter of fact, <a href="http://www.quake3addicts.com/index.php?theme=AT-IceRed"><b>HERE</b></a> is what I started with. I think I did pretty good wouldn't ya say. I played and tweaked for a while to come up with this theme, but those little buttons that you pointed out where just hell to find and I gave up on them. I realize it's not perfect, but I did a good job considering what I started with. Anyways, keep the comments coming, I apreciate them.
P.S. The Q3Plug thingy is a plugin for your browser so you can see the status for a quake3 game server. It shows, your ping to the server as well as how many players, thier names, pings, scores etc. It's pretty cool, but I haven't kept on top of the servers that are there. Some have moved or gotten new ip addresses. So if there is a server you want me to put on there, let me know and I'll add it. |
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Posted: Nov 21, 2006 - 06:57 AM
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Oh no ways bra, I wasn't askin you to re-do everything, but small changes would be cool. Pity you have to go with preset themes, is it not possible to go into the folder where the auto theme thingy is installed, find the preset theme files and screw around with them yourself?
It's fairly obvious that I haven't the slightest clue what I'm talking about isn't it?
Well, anyway, I just know you can do that with the Winamp skins.
I may not know much about how to do this sort of thing in a technological sense, but I can tell you, creatively, it's a game bruvva, there must be a crap load of concept art, and all sorts of other goodies that you could play around with... etc... you know.
Crap, I don't even know.
Oh, yes, by the way, what are these Q3plug thingies? I mean, what do they do? |
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Posted: Nov 20, 2006 - 05:17 PM
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Well, thanks for the tips, but acually I hate flash sites. I hate having to wait for the flash to finish before you can get to any info. The id site is better but it's real dark to me. I know about the buttons you mentioned, but I could never find where they are in the css. This site is run on a CMS (content management system) called postnuke and the forum is pnPHPbb2. They are theme based using autotheme theme engine. It's not a simple thing to change a button like an html site.
I have both those programs and have worked with flash, but as I said, I hate it on a site except for an intro with a "skip intro" button. I have thought about using an intro but never got around to making one. I could start all over and make an html site with flash all over, but it's allot of work for something I don't particularly like.
Thanks for the tips as I said, and if there are things I can work on I will, but rewriting my site is not an option. |
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Posted: Nov 19, 2006 - 11:16 AM
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Ha Ha Ha... otherwise known as "lol".
I wont say everything, I shall rather just say all that appears before my eyes.
But to give you more useful feedback, I don't have much time to go into detail now, I can honestly say, most of the sites I have seen which I believe have a really impressive presentation, are done in Flash or Adobe Illustrator, or something along those lines.
Now I understand completely if you don't have a great knowledge of those programs, and you do have a life, it would be quite a mission to go and learn one of those programs fluently enough, so that you, by yourself, could really PIMP your site.
However there are great looking sites that don't use flash,
and, don't try and be clever with me  sites about games generally look better than any other type of site.
Here's an example of a good looking site, about a game, that was done in flash
http://www.quake4game.com/
But as I mentioned before, I understand if you don't have the resources, funds, knowledge, or any of the above put your site on that level.
So here's a simpler site, another which you might recognise, this is done in flash as well, however, it's not an interactive page, it appears to me as a basic template...
http://www.idsoftware.com/games/quake/quake3-arena/
I seriously have to go now, maybe next time I can go more in-depth with you on this topic, tell you about specific things which bring a cinder like sensation to my eyes. Like these bright buttons, you know, the ones you click on to make text Bold Italic or Underlined, etc.
Cheers Brutha |
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Posted: Nov 17, 2006 - 06:16 PM
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| Whats so ugly. Just saying ugly doesn't help me any. Be specific, and don't say everything. Remember what the site is about, it's not a news or tech site, it's about a game. |
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Posted: Nov 16, 2006 - 12:34 PM
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It's a fairly ugly site... no offense, just my honest opinion
Well, seeing as we're being honest here, it's reeeeally ugly.
But so far it's useful, looks are not everything, etc, etc...  |
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Post subject: THIS SITE?
Posted: Mar 19, 2006 - 11:09 PM
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OK, it's time to pay for another year. What's up with you all. I know about 3 of you post and use this site, but what about the rest. I can check my stats and see you are here and reading. I can see that there is allot of you but no-one seems to post in the forum.
Get your friends together and tell them it's your site, I don't care, just start using it or it will disapear. If you want a section for your clan, just let me know I'll make it and give you admin to it. Just start using this place.
Submit news to the front page. If you're worried about your ability to write, don't worry. I check spelling etc. before it goes up. You won't look bad, I promise.
So if it's somethong you need to make it a place for you to use, let me know. Or if your just embarassed, don't be. There are a couple of real good players that are more than willing to help with the game. Or if you just want someplace to shoot the shit, go right ahead, but get to it already!!
Thanks... |
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