New Suggestions For DCHomebrew Site

[Christuserloeser]

that's a great idea!

[MetaFox]

Something like this:

http://www.cyberdogcastle.com/dchomebrew/index.html

[Christuserloeser]

;D almost perfect that is!

links to the websites could be added to the author's name as usual.

[curt_grymala]

I like that idea MetaFox. I think I will play a little with that thought. I don't like the fact that it has to actually go to a different HTML page the way it is now, but I might be able to figure something up that will do it on the same page (I would use layers, but I don't want to use javascript at all in this site, so that everyone can view the site no matter what).

[curt_grymala]

I'm thinking of throwing the "Sub-Menu" into an iFrame, instead of having it on a scrolling div. That way, the height of the Sub-Menu can be variable, depending on the height of the table within which it is contained. Unfortunately, I don't think that can be done with a scrolling div. Being that we are going to use SSI, it won't make much of a difference in the long run.

Being that the sub-menu is currently a fixed height, that was the only real thing causing problems with the amount of content inside the main content area. Once I take care of that, the descriptions can be as long as they need to be, and it won't effect anything.

[curt_grymala]

Try this one on for size: http://grymala.com/~curtiss/DCHB/Template11.html

I'm still looking into some way to accomplish what Metafox suggested with the screenshots, without using javascript (maybe use iFrames for each of the screenshots, too). However, like I said, now the content can be as long and as detailed as it needs to be, and everything will still appear the way it is supposed to.

[curt_grymala]

Shoot - I just realized there is no place in there to download the projects. I will have to fix that. Any suggestions on where to place it? I was thinking maybe on the left side, underneath the main menu. Maybe not. I don't know.

If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. I don't really like the format of the "download table" that is currently being used on DCHombrew, so I would be looking for something a little more elegant.

I might get a chance to play with it a little bit this afternoon. If anyone else has any suggestions, please post them.

Until then, check this out and let me know if you think I'm headed in the correct direction.

http://www.grymala.com/~curtiss/DCHB/Template12.html

I'm currently working to find out if there's a way to manipulate the iFrame border.

[curt_grymala]

Fixed the iFrame border situation (turns out you have to use the "frameborder" attribute instead of the simple "border" attribute). Re-upped the file. Same link as last post.

[Christuserloeser]

Mmh. Not bad, but I liked the way Metafox had the arrows to skip thru the screens.

Idea for more info/desrciption:
Place the shot-section before the actual description follows, so one can give as much info about the game as needed but the layout at first look stays for every item the same.

Download links should be placed on the lower part of the site (together with tutorials and tools for: Quake, DivX, etc) so you look at a similar site like it is at the moment and have to scroll down to come to the additional links for downloads, tuts and tools

[curt_grymala]

I like Metafox's idea better, too, but there is one fundamental problem with it, as far as I can see:

You have to choices on how to accomplish it:
a) You can set up a different HTML page for each screenshot, so that you would end up with 4 different pages with the same content (with different screenshots) if you have four screenshots of the project.
b) You can use javascript to create some sort of image changer script, but that will be completely ineffective for a large number of people that have javascript disabled in their browsers.

I like your idea about putting the description below the screenshots. I will see what I can do about working that out (stupid nested tables. they're such a pain in the butt to fool around with).