Al_B on 5/4/2009 at 17:28
Whilst it may not be perfect - the new page is much easier to read and I like the short descriptions for each link.
You'll probably be best off in the long run ditching Cool Page and getting to grip with the html (and css) yourself.
RocketMan on 5/4/2009 at 23:09
Ok I guess I'll be next on the chopping block. My site is intended to be 50% shock relevant with the other half devoted to rocketry....not exactly a standard way of doing things but it felt right to do it this way.
The site is obviously not finished but there are a few functional pages and some of the navigation works too. Over time I'll be changing things that aren't exactly "optimal" and adding more pages so you should see new content on the site periodically.
I'll apologize in advance for what must seem a sloppy effort in some ways. Never made a site before and I chose not to go the HTML way but instead to use photoshop exclusively.
I hope everyone finds the content pleasing enough. Unfortunately there's more meat in the rocket section at the moment than the shock section since I just added the page on rocket science and have yet to really break the shock pages down into the more interesting stuff.
Here's the site:
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http://rocketshock.atspace.com/index.html)
I'll keep a link in my signature too.
ZylonBane on 5/4/2009 at 23:27
In all seriousness, baking body text into bitmaps is pretty much universally regarded as the hardest you can possibly fail when it comes to web design.
Don't do that.
RocketMan on 5/4/2009 at 23:29
Yep, as per Yakoob's comment earlier, it was pretty much the first thing on my list of repairs. Been working on the content lately so I left it alone for the time being.
Enchantermon on 5/4/2009 at 23:39
Much better.
Kolya's right, though; you still have a lot of deprecated tags and Javascript, and the links really need to have something (preferably a different color) to distinguish them from regular text.
Also, a little more organization would be nice. Several lists of content, each with something in common, is a lot easier to read than one long list.
Quote Posted by Al_B
You'll probably be best off in the long run ditching Cool Page and getting to grip with the html (and css) yourself.
Thank you for your apology, as well. It's not often we get a newbie who's willing to swallow their pride and give things another go.
This is all related to the Shock site.
First and foremost, the colors. Those greens and yellows are
way too bright, a fact that is made worse by the dark background. You gotta tone them down a little, or change them altogether.
Also, the navigation bar is nowhere except on the main Shock page. At the very least, you should have "Back" buttons somewhere. Ideally, the navigation bar should be on every page.
You also need to run your text through a spell checker and past someone who knows proper grammar (I don't trust grammar checkers; they can be unreliable).
I like the way you describe the games from the player's perspective; that's pretty sweet. I think you're a little confused on the events of SS2, though. The way you have it written, it sounds like Goggles was jumped when he first came aboard and was shoved into the freezer before the ship even left Earth. His surgery, however, didn't happen until
Shodan had infiltrated the Von Braun. A quote from one of the e-mails you receive from Shodan on Deck 2 of the Rickenbacker: "It was I who chose you. And I who had a robotic servant render your form unconscious. I then completed you with cybernetic grace."You made a good effort, though. I do recommend that you learn HTML instead of using Photoshop, of course, because the content being a picture is kind of annoying.
RocketMan on 5/4/2009 at 23:58
Quote Posted by Enchantermon
This is all related to the Shock site.
First and foremost, the colors. Those greens and yellows are
way too bright, a fact that is made worse by the dark background. You gotta tone them down a little, or change them altogether.
Also, the navigation bar is nowhere except on the main Shock page. At the very least, you should have "Back" buttons somewhere. Ideally, the navigation bar should be on every page.
You also need to run your text through a spell checker and past someone who knows proper grammar (I don't trust grammar checkers; they can be unreliable).
I like the way you describe the games from the player's perspective; that's pretty sweet. I think you're a little confused on the events of SS2, though. The way you have it written, it sounds like Goggles was jumped when he first came aboard and was shoved into the freezer before the ship even left Earth. His surgery, however, didn't happen until
Shodan had infiltrated the Von Braun. A quote from one of the e-mails you receive from Shodan on Deck 2 of the Rickenbacker: "It was I who chose you. And I who had a robotic servant render your form unconscious. I then completed you with cybernetic grace."You made a good effort, though. I do recommend that you learn HTML instead of using Photoshop, of course, because the content being a picture is kind of annoying.
Regarding the plotline, I guess it does kind of sound like he got jumped. What I was going for was this: If Goggle's memory was erased then it's quite possible that he wouldn't remember much of his experiences onboard at all. When I threw that line in there from the technician sending Goggles for surgery, I may have contradicted myself because he wouldn't remember the tech saying that if his memory was erased up to an even earlier time. I probably decided to put it in anyway though because it helps the reader sort of understand what's going on. Maybe I'll think of a different way to do that part.
The picture/text issue is something I would have liked to correct earlier but I'm having problems figuring out how to lay out the text visually exactly as I like while still keeping it as actual text embedded in slices. I guess the only way is to lay it out with HTML, which I really didn't want to have to do.
I agree about the nav bars. Just like the pages themselves, the nav bars are not all there. I assure you though I will be putting more in.
ZylonBane on 6/4/2009 at 00:07
Quote Posted by RocketMan
The picture/text issue is something I would have liked to correct earlier but I'm having problems figuring out how to lay out the text visually exactly as I like while still keeping it as actual text embedded in slices.
Welcome to web design. Text will NEVER be exactly as you like, unless what you like is "close enough".
Enchantermon on 6/4/2009 at 00:40
That's probably why I wouldn't be a good web designer. I'm too much of a perfectionist.
ZylonBane on 6/4/2009 at 00:57
Don't confuse perfectionism with being a control freak. One of the highest ideals of web design (which art students the world round attempt to subvert on a daily basis) is that the end users (or at least, the user agents) are in charge of how they display your content.
This is why, for example, fixed-width page layouts SUCK.
