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That game looks pretty cool. too bad I don't have the time to play them anymore. I like how the huge open area battles happens with units of all sizes. Great concept this game has.

Just a few questions concerning the design. I noticed the main page is designed for 800x600 resolution. Will we be sticking to that or can we design for 1024x768 and greater?Are we to stick with a fix width layout or are we free to create full width designs?Are there any deadlines for entries?

Whats wrong with your link? http://mootools.net/ is the correct URL why are you providing an indirect link that doesn't seem to load? http://mootools.net/core

OK first off I do not even know that company so there is no way this would be bias. You guys who think in anyway their security of a website relates to how well their desktop product works is totally wrong. How do you know they did not pay some other company to develop and test their website? That company could of miss sanitizing post or get variables. It may not even be the whole company likely it was one person who missed it or was too lazy to test. Don't be so closed minded in your way thinking people. Your logic is flawed. Don't you think that company would be too busy working on their own products and have some other people build their website?

The focus and blurry areas dont seem to add up. It looks kinda like you just put a blur gradient type in certain areas if you get what I mean. Other then that I looks neat.

In my opinion I don't think the thin lines of that font work as well as it being red in a black background. Maybe a thicker font will work the colors black and red work.

silly you.. that post has been over 4 years its 2009 now of course something has changed :|

Thats a nice flash site. I will take a good thorough look a little later on. I just happen to fix my rendering problem with images larger then the screen on IE7 and Opera. I found out there are differences on how they read images sizes compared to firefox and safari hence the min-width value not kicking in. You can look at the source code of the si.js if you really want to see.Anything else I missed? I'm interested in building a flash gallery like the one you showed me too so maybe that will be my next project. I have to say flash has advanced a lot since I touched on it a few years back.edit: I just saw your other post. Thats not a bad layout design. I don't think I can change it as easily now even if I really wanted to, since it seems to be ok as of now I will carry on but I would like to create a flash gallery soon just to see what it can do.

I used to go there a lot last year and it was free. The last few weeks when I went back I noticed they have limits and the way they limit it was by allowing you to view only a certain in a period. I think it was like 90 minutes total viewing in one session before you needed to wait 50 mins. This was dumb because if you started to view a new movie and even though you have loaded the full video your time limit would run out and the loaded video would be unusable until 50 minutes later.One way around is to just get a new ip and view again but it can be annoying especially if changing ips would get your internet throttled because you have been over your monthly cap . I dont know about the cookies method but if they blocked by ip then I'm sure cookies wouldn't work it docent seem logical since removing cookies is so much easier. Plus if that was the case then just have multiple browsers there.

Whats the URL of your website? What kind of code are you using to host your website by the way?

Just an update. I seem to have fixed the rendering problem of the layout box when images are loaded via Ajax that is too large for the current screen. It will load the image then get the image size then set min-width of body. function loadCanvas(id){ jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas").addClass("min_height300"); jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas").removeClass("min_height100"); jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas img").hide(); var canvas = jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas").css("background-image","url('./images/loading.gif')"); canvas.load("includes/portfolio/loadCanvas.php",{image_id: id}, function(){ jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas").css("background-image","none"); jQuery("div#portfolio_canvas img").fadeIn("slow"); setBodyMinWidth(); } ); } My solution is rather crude because I had to use a setTimeout() or 500 just so it will force a delay. If I did not force a delay the script will not pick up the correct image size for some reason even though the ajax call is supposedly completed and fired the callback function. I have only tested on Opera, Safari, and FF3 and it seems to work. anyone with IE7 can check for me please? updated: I am using the animate() from jquery to smooth the transitions and so far only opera out of the 3 fail.

Yeah that does suck but wouldn't they have told you before hand about how much the service call charge was going to cost? If they don't then that is a pretty shady way to do business. I remember when I had to call someone to fix our washing machine they specifically had to make sure you understood what the service call would cost even if you decided not to go ahead with the fix.

I previously had a light box gallery but I've chosen to move away from that. Flash gallery I might consider if this doesn't work out well. Yeah the re size problem is something I just realized since truefusion mentioned it. I'm working on and tested out a javascript solution to get the width of the image and reset the min-width of the body and it seems to work but currently Its buggy since the image is being retrieved by ajax and I get inconsistent width values 0 or its real value. A problem I am currently working on. You mean create a text description gallery then replace it with full size images when clicked on? Or do you mean show text descriptions on hover then replace with image when selected? that would be a good way to do it. I was considering javascript pop up windows for more description/info but that last idea isn't bad either. I am going for a layout where it will use the maximum width of a users screen resolution so I will definitely not be using any standard fix width sizes. If it doesn't work then I may have to resort to that. Also I'm curious to what screen resolution and browser your are using?

Yeah it can be done. But the question is who will write the addon or program to do that? The criteria to block such messages would also have to be decided. I get spam from people on my friends list when I jump on MSN so it could be either their machine has been taken over by a bot or that bot is imitating that user.

Yeah I've been working with MySQL for a while. Done 3 database papers at AUT. I'm not an expert but I know enough to get by. Still learning as I go. Pretty cool you know FLash and AS3. I would like to learn that eventually. Have you got any work live online? Would be interested to see what you have so far.

Great, If you have hosting there I would suggest you setup a folder to test it on Xisto as well. I work on a local version and upload easily to my hosting. That way you can share with others what stage your up to easily. code and layout is there to view you know.

I think you got me all wrong. I'm into learning how to work with code and layout/designs from scratch. I think it teaches you more and enables you to become more flexible in your work. Sure wordpress is quick but I do not like those generic layouts. There are themes but I don't like the designs either by others. See that gallery? Written by Truefusion originally. I got the idea and he showed me how to do it. I made it into an expanding width. I would have not been able to do that if I did not seek to be different. The reason why my site isnt done is because I'm learning and refining alot of areas as I go along. You may not know it but the site started out and is still being built with a CMS that I use to manage it with. I'm not only getting into design only and require pre-made solutions. I want to be able to write my own. I've seen your site all I see is wordpress. Thank you for checking that. Yes I have decided it is not worth the effort to fix IE6 Bugs since an upgrade to IE7 is free. I will need to get my self access to IE7 and test more. Yes in FF3, Safari and Opera 9 which I have there is a redraw problem when images loaded are much larger then the current window width (box and gallery is centered and side edges hidden until you resizing and reveal more.). This could be a potential problem with people with smaller resolutions but at this stage I will have to think about how I will go about it. My resolution is 1440x900 so more testing with lower resolutions will have to be done

Do not suggest pre-made solutions especially for a site that is going to be promoting someone who is going to work as a specialist in the web development industry. If you use pre-made CMS it will show you have no creativity. Sure there is no need to re invent the wheel but you need to differentiate yourself from the rest. Write your layouts and do your designs from scratch you will learn more this way.Shadow the layout problems you are having in IE are common and they should be expected. You will begin to remember what works and what doesn't for IE the more you make layouts from scratch on your own. Use specific CSS fixes for that that affect IE only. You didnt mention what version by the way.

Welcome fellow AUT student. Looking forward to seeing some of your work and maybe sharing some knowledge.

Apart from the header logo and the bottom right hand corner pattern everything else looks too generic. Your solid background color and the transition to the page content is too abrupt in my opinion. I think if you added a smooth gradient background it would ease that a little. Go ahead and build the design. Make sure you split images and layout out in a way where it will be easy to make further adjustments and tweaks. Cant wait to see how it turns out.

well don't need to make any additional folders, thats just to keep things tidy and organized. You can just place your php files inside the www directory and it will run if you have the web server started and there are no errors.Viewing your php file - After you have placed the file in the www directory you need to open up a web broswer and enter your web servers address. In this case it whould be lhttp://localhost Still lost? post where your lost at exactly.

I've made some updates and have decided to lose the lightbox gallery. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ I think its much more subtle and elegant this time round. Any comments appreciated. I have tested the layout in IE7 using http://browsershots.org/ and see no errors but I cant test out the ajax calls since it only takes screenshots. If anyone can test it on IE7 much thanks. I will be changing it a bit so check back in a day or two (using JQuery now. great library if you haven't already tried it )

I don't think web 2.0 has anything to do with logos and how they are categorized. I think its more to do with what web pages offers in terms of functionality and response to the end user.

Thanks a lot for pointing that out. I got it working nicely with function shiftLeft(){ jQuery("div#portfolio_gallery_image_container img:first-child").insertAfter(jQuery("div#portfolio_gallery_image_container img:last-child"));}function shiftRight(){ jQuery("div#portfolio_gallery_image_container img:last-child").insertBefore(jQuery("div#portfolio_gallery_image_container img:first-child"));} If it can be shorten any further let me know thanks

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - mine I've been trying to make a new type of gallery. The one I have requested help for previously is nice but I would still like to refine it a little bit so I set out to try and build one from scratch using TrueFusions idea. I dont mind using the JQuery library to help me build it but the problem is I have pratically no experience with it. I looked up API http://api.jquery.com/remove/ but it seems to remove all child nodes. I have written my own shiftLeft() and shiftRIght() functions and it seems to work with no errors but it doesent seem to respond like when one clicks quickly. Is it trying to register double clicks or something? On TrueFusions original code using JQuery it doesn't seem to have this problem. i.e double clicks will cycle through images twice where is mine is ignored. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ - truefusions code I would like help in figuring out how to write my version of shiftLeft() and shiftRIght() in JQuery. I think with JQuery I would not have that miss click effect when I click twice. JQuery seems to be a very nice and light library. function shiftLeft(){ var pf_thumb_items = document.getElementById('portfolio_gallery_image_container'); var temp_pf_thumb_item = pf_thumb_items.removeChild(pf_thumb_items.firstChild); pf_thumb_items.appendChild(temp_pf_thumb_item); }function shiftRight(){ var pf_thumb_items = document.getElementById('portfolio_gallery_image_container'); var temp_pf_thumb_item = pf_thumb_items.removeChild(pf_thumb_items.lastChild); pf_thumb_items.insertBefore(temp_pf_thumb_item, pf_thumb_items.firstChild);} Update: Actually I just realized TrueFusion's method was just changing the visibility of div's/nodes. My current way is actually removing and adding them to the other end. That is probably why the no response on every second click.