Good Boating: Where We're @

11th Feb 2006 stk

Well hells bells and taco shells. I believe we don't have to have a logo contest after all. :D I came up with one (out of necessity) and you know what? IT ROCKS. It's simple, conveys "astonished" in a very appropriate way and just looks cool.

The lastest rendition of the mock up of the www.goodboating.net front page can be seen HERE.

I've zipped up the files for you, Yabba, and put them in the goodboating subdomain on AM. Summat like here, I think ... (not 100%, but more like 85% ... it's late, damn near 2AM). :o

Have a look at a couple of things, if you can. I did a rounded corner deal on the H2 headers, but I kluged it together. I've got a faded image, wanted %text for accessibility ... and needed two corners in addition ... tried to do a <h2><div><span> thing to get all three images in, but had alignment issues on the <div>, for some reason. (Couldn't seem to get the BG image into the corner, was like there was a border or summat hiding it). Anyway ... that's one.

The other is the right sidebar title fades. I made a shorter version, which will "fade-to-black" in the sidebar ... called them, but it's still pulling up the OTHER ones, for some reason.

I had a HELL of a time getting our logo, CSS rollover in ... one of those ... :o ... why isn't it working things. (till i realized i fergot to close a curly brace immediately above ... ACK. :|

Urm ... I think it validates. (checking) ... strict, yes. Only warnings on the CSS, no errors, and most are bgcolors and simple stuff.

I haven't done anything with the input text boxes - have a play. I still need to add (dunno 100x100, or 150x150) thumb->zoom images on some "sample posts" for a mock-up of the body content. Have a play there if you'd like, but I've got a pretty firm idea of the kind of thing I'm shooting for, but just not certain how to "contain them", as *i think* DIVS are out, b/c they won't slide by the boat really well.

The flowing text around that boat totally rocks, Squirt! (Noggin ... fin)

I've seen Nemo, too many damn times and did I say? It's late. :|

Cheers ... ... I'm on with Rachel tomorrow (today), as she's really stressed with a 3-hour presentation on Monday, mid-term sometime next week and a term paper the following Monday. I'll probably be thin on the 'puter this weekend ...

stk out <-----------

 
 
 
 
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Anonymous
11th Feb 2006
Lol, it looks like a stunned monkey :|

Ok, sorted out sidebar titles to use the proper images. Tarted up the sidebar rollovers a tad as well, will play with the input boxes to make them look better. I'll slot in some kind of collapsing link list.

I'll wait till you've installed the pz images before I bother playing, that's a tad more your area than mine ;)

@rounded corners, I think it's your logic that's a tad out. wrap th <h2> in the <div> , if I get chance I'll look at that as well.

If I get all that done I'll get rid of all the warning in the css as well, probably won't take long.

Tell R is not stress it's PMS :|

Hopefully we'll be launching FSB by monday as well (lol yeah yeah I know, been saying that longer than FG has been releasing beta :|) so that should free up some time and will start generating some $ for us :D

Damn, in the time it's taken me to write this RL has gone from 0 > 100 mph :O

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Anonymous
11th Feb 2006
Wow, that is one fine template. I like the logo, too. :O
 
Anonymous
12th Feb 2006
Thanks for the help, Yabbio. I've renamed the skin "midas" (for a double hidden meaning), but regardless of the joke, it's a bit more appropriate than "fishy". ;)

I've copied it all back on my server and you can keep up with any changes at randsco.com/midas

I think I killed the stunned monkey ... added a new favicon to the AM site.

 
Anonymous
18th Feb 2006
Yabs ...

I added a title to the page and set up for an area on top of the posts for a colored (summat), gross sorting mechanism.

I've commented out the test block, mostly b/c I don't think it's a good idea to showcase any non-linear videos (which will primarily be used for showcasing boats for sale and the site is meant to be "non-commercial"). Any videos can be showcased in a front-page summary entry ... tho i'm not certain how to resolve the aspect ratio/size issue.

After playing for much too long trying to "fix" the IE right column, I came to realize that it's the font size (and long text) of "OhioBoating.net" that was blowing it out. (When I reduced the font size to 80% for links in the sidebar ... which is ridiculously small ... I finally "found" the problem).

Anyway ... there's a bunch of garbage at the bottom of the CSS file that's there primarily in my attempt to FIX it.

I still need to style the entries and of course, we will need to focus on the sidebar. The blog links will go (tho we can use the VERY NICE rollovers elsewhere). The "description" will go too ... (or be severely reduced). Search stays. Admin stuff goes. And the horrid CATS (with too many kittens) will require some organization and (hopefully) a JS series of drop downs or expanding "departments" will help to tidy it up. Archives will be just a button ... leading to a summary.php page with titles by date. Kudos will disappear and b2evo will go into the footer as text. Oh and search needs to include all/some/phrase buttons.

Have a play with whatever you want to do ... just remember to make a backup.

Cheers.



 
Anonymous
18th Feb 2006
Mornin' Scott,

Lol, yeah, 99% of the garbage that's currently in the sidebar (and content) needs to go in the bin (trash can). The sidebar content needs to be as tailored as the main content. I'm going to be doing the last bit's of "tidy up" on FSB today so I can kick Ash's ass out into the cold to start generating some sales so I might not get a lot of time to play with this... we'll see.

Cool that it's finally starting to slot together though huh? ;)

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