Be Excellent To Each Other

Horrors, I've been doing stuff on here. Does this sort of thing look OK for everyone? I am particularly concerned with the categorisation of stuff, as seen in the horizontal menu across the top. I imagine the "Not-games" category will grow some extra bits. I will also finish the BurtTank article.

I have abandoned all hope of ever getting the user database sycing with the forum. You will have to register separately on the site (boo-urns, I know). If the mods and sub-eds from here would like to register on the site, I will give them appropriate permissions.

Basically the workflow I envisage will be any registered user can submit stuff, but it won't go live right away; a sub-ed or mod will have to go push a "publish" button. That's to stop spam, perhaps apply some redrafting etc -- same as the sub-eds were doing in the reviews forum here. However, I suggest we do not continue to write content for the site in the forum, then have a sub-ed transfer it; it's just a fiddly and unecessary extra step.

Everyone OK with that?

Writer's Guidelines

That's really cool!

I like the smooth way the topics roll down-e.g: Games-reviews, articles etc

Nice!

I take no credit. I think they are a part of the theme, but in any event, Goddess Jasmine and Devilman did the theme stuff.

Not bad, but it needs more flash animation

Free jetpac for every user?

Where's the dancing jeebers and "HELLO!HELLO!HELLO!" sound effect?

Absent, it seems. The spiffing awesome of this might cheer you.

Christ, wtf is that? Has someone let a toddler at the crayons again?

that's fucking JETPACK to you, DrGspot

I like.

Not in Opera 9.62, they don't.

Ace. I push for immediate rolling forth of it. As it is ace.

Only if it's the cartridge version.

Needs more animated .gifs of flames and that.

And a animated roadworks guys, 'cos its Under Construction.


And a hit counter.

Nicely done webcreatingPeeX

There's a typo in the thread title. Do you mind if I change it?

Good job. Looks nice. 990 bananas.

I got a blank page in Firefox the first two times of going there (from the above link) seems to be okay now, but thought I would let you know. (so you can tell me to fuck off)

I like that Beex Weex thing. The person who did that ought to get a mighty slap on the back, or rub on the head if they're short.

It's too thin, IMO. Needs to be 920px wide to make better use of 1024x768.

OK. One quick question - how exactly would one go about doing that?

Good idea! What do I need to edit for that, web guy? I'm a code monkey, I don't do colouring-in.

It's a code monkey's job to change the width, you spazmo No colouring-in involved. If you need a hand with 'owt let me know, although I'll need access to the site FTP to make changes.

Remember the old saying. "Too many cocks fill the chuff"

It doesn't apply anymore on Pornos

Too many cocks spoil the chuff, then.

Doobla Vee, Doobla Ay?

Nah, with it being Joomla-based, you can edit the template and CSS in the admin back-end of the site. I've widened the overall template a bit (as you can tell as Zardoz's graphic doesn't fit now), but I can't find the setting needed to make the content fill the extra space - example

More admin logins can be added manually but it's not really for me to say who should be admin as it's not my site.

If the swish menu is going to be a problem, maybe we'll need another template possibly?

User self-registration is currently turned off. Want it back on?

It's as much your site as anyone's on here DM.

Heh I'm just used to butchering my own webspace about. I'll try not to mess Grim's about.

Registration Page anyway.

I think we'd need Joomla 1.5 for that. I recently upgraded my own site to it and it's looking like the way to go with support for Joomla 1.0.15 stopping soonish. I can't say it's been plain sailing for me though - I'm still getting odd 404 and 406 errors, but then I'm trying to faff around with SEF URLs.

FWIW, the slidey menus work fine in Chrome.

Eh? Course it's not - width is controlled by CSS.


Trust me when I say it's ridiculously hard to find anything that works.

Also: Do you think the forum needs a link in the menu bar?

CSS comes under "code monkey" IMO, I wouldn't expect a designer working with Photoshop or what-have-you to know how to edit CSS.

Pshaw. If the filename ends in PNG, JPG, CSS, JS or HTML I don't want to know about it. Bring me your SQL, PHP, CS, JAVA and (in a pinch, with reluctance) ASP.

I bet you say that to all the girls.

Yeah, that's why I've given up, for now at least. We do need to upgrade Joomla though.

Yes. I cannot believe there isn't one. I'm a dunderhead.

Is Joomla the only CMS in the world that doesn't give a "login or register" box by default? Goddamn.

No, just yo momma.

I poked around for a bit and found it, but it wasn't obvious.

No more than three dots in a row!

An ellipsis should always be three dots. Two makes you look lazy and more makes you look like a mentalist.

The definition of "ellipsis" is "three dots", isn't it?

Right, fixed that, and rejigged the menus again. Adding the register link means the search box no longer lines up with the horizontal blue menu bar though, which doesn't look as nice.

Fixed. I didn't write that intro text

Well yes, but too many people use whole lines of dots to signify the same thing.................. it's pointless and makes them look like a mong.

See also - multiple exclamation marks.

Or people who use exclamation marks at the end of every sentence! Like this! It just makes you look like a gurning buffoon!

Yahoo!