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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:36 am
by Lenard
By the way, I would have been hella pissed had this been a joke thread.

Also, I really like your colors and style you got going on there. Maybe just a tad more flashy and add some news!!!! What ever happened to q3w news? Sucks...

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:00 pm
by Foo
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
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deliberate, but since it's ambiguous I'll switch it to the right spelling :)
o'dium wrote:BTW, I hate Wiki's. They are only good if your a mod site. For a game site like this, it should be news, and a few static inforamtion pages. Not to mention the wiki pages take ages to load.
I'm all about trying something new. Think about this:
-The web started off static with no user feedback.
-Then there was small dynamic elements like gifs and DHTML.
-Then forms and other elements of user feedback got big (Contact forms, ordering).
-After that user input directly into the site in limited areas (forums, guestbooks)
-Lately there's been a move towards users being able to input a whole lot more (forums are ubiquitous, guestbooks, comment fields, ratings, submissions)
-I think a content site which is fully open to public contribution is the way forward.

Now, I'm not completely naive. I realise how widely open to abuse the system is. Fortunately, I'm not a business, and I can afford to take that risk without a PR disaster... so I think it's worth a go :)

BTW with some time spent, I think I can make it look like it's not even a Wiki, and have it almost indistinguishable from the main page.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:12 pm
by Pext
is there a way to change the board style to the new one for all they guys that come here through the link?

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:21 pm
by DRuM
Very nice foo. I 'll only take 50% profits for bringing the whole thing up :icon26:

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:23 pm
by ^misantropia^
o'dium wrote:Not to mention the wiki pages take ages to load.
Easily solved by putting a Squid caching proxy in front of it.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:25 pm
by Zyte
^mis check teh pm, im counting on you =o

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 12:32 pm
by Foo
DRuM wrote:Very nice foo. I 'll only take 50% profits for bringing the whole thing up :icon26:
Split 2 ways with losChunk mate.

But yeah, winner!

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:13 pm
by shiznit
You might want to fix the header, the green glow is cut off on the left right and bottom part of the logo.

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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:51 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
Foo wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
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deliberate, but since it's ambiguous I'll switch it to the right spelling :)
i thought so for a second, but everything else was grammatically well done.

nice work so far. *props*

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:02 pm
by Foo
The Wiki is going crazy right now while I play with its style :D

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:44 pm
by shiznit
I think I'm going to try and make a new banner for you. :P

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:46 pm
by Foo
If you're up for making a banner, the wiki badly needs some graphics.

There's the main header image (which I think I might just use the main Q4W banner for), but there's also the sidebar image.

If you're willing to give it a shot, then the style of the wiki is changing right now to white on black, so bear that in mind :D

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:49 pm
by shiznit
Alright I have nothing better to do today anyways, I'll give it a shot.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:03 pm
by ScooterG
Thanks, Foo! You da man!

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:38 pm
by shiznit
Okay I just spent a little bit remaking banner.jpg, I thought yours was acctually fine but the glow was coming off and being cut off a little and also I positioned the slogan in a different place.

Quake4 Colors
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Your Colors
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:50 pm
by shiznit
One more, bigger glow, the same colors as your site.

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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:55 pm
by o'dium
Bottom glow strength, with the top colour. Winner. (i.e. the third one :p )

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:59 pm
by Foo
BTW, the original banner you're basing off is Doomer's work and he rustled it up in no time at all, because he's the man :D

Those are awesome... as odium said the best look will be the first color shade with extra glow strength.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:03 pm
by shiznit
alright then I'll make it in a min.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:13 pm
by shiznit
Bah imageshack is being a bitch, but here.

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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:16 pm
by Foo
That's awesome.

I'll use the third version until someone gets to tweaking the site design, then swap it in for the fourth one.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:17 pm
by shiznit
I can work on the wiki image but first I need it, because I cannot seem to get it with in source or left clicking.

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:23 pm
by Foo
shiznit wrote:I can work on the wiki image but first I need it, because I cannot seem to get it with in source or left clicking.
wiki.png 135x135px ;)

BTW come to IRC if you want to chat: irc.quakenet.org #q4w

Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2005 7:32 pm
by shiznit
I keep gettin glined for no reason, I was able to connect just a few days ago..

Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2005 1:29 am
by axbaby
me make wiki night last and me wiki can't be found.
help me find my wiki .. reward offered