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Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:57 am
by El Savior
Hi all!
I want to inform that my HTTR/COTA site has finally received modern look. All HTTR scenarios are still available for downloads and there is now added COTA downloads section. If you have a scenario, please send it to me and I will host it.
Please visit new
Airborne Depot
Cheers,
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:08 am
by Arjuna
El Savior,
Nice! Well Done.
BTW I noticed one small typo on your Home page - "visually enchanged" should be "visually enhanced", I think.
Great stuff. All the best,
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:24 am
by El Savior
ORIGINAL: Arjuna
BTW I noticed one small typo on your Home page - "visually enchanged" should be "visually enhanced", I think.
Thanks!
Fixed the typo. There are tons of them more I'm sure, but at least one was fixed. Native Finnish can't spell. [;)]
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:31 am
by sterckxe
Nice ! - link saved for future reference
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:39 am
by Robin le guetteur
Great !
It's good to have such non official site, with articles and ressources. Feel free to put on the download section my "back to paper mod"!
[8D]
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:10 pm
by RayWolfe
ORIGINAL: El Savior
Native Finnish can't spell. [;)]
I'm native English, and I can't even spell in that langu lagua talk. [;)]
Ray
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:54 pm
by wodin
Fantastic.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:28 pm
by JeF
El Savior,
two thumbs up here !!!
I'm glad to see your site updated and that you keep on the good work.
Now I have to follow your example and keep on updating mine. [:)]
Nice job on the relooking.
I'd give more contrast on the color scheme. Black on dark gray is not very readable. If you're undecided, a pure black on white is always efficient.
Home page title is "BigDesigns", a bit strange.
Regarding additional links, don't forget to add the ones on this page :
COTA Community.
I would be pleased if you add
The Drop Zone to your link page.
And I guess Rooster wouldn't mind if you add a link to
his blog.
ORIGINAL: sterckxe
Nice ! - link saved for future reference
Eddy,
[X(]
It should have been in your bookmarks long ago !
Or maybe you use the front page of
The Drop Zone daily ? [;)]
Cheers,
JeF.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 7:35 pm
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: JeF
Eddy,
It should have been in your bookmarks long ago !
I don't have bookmarks. They're not convenient when you've got multiple computers you surf on and multiple browsers. I've got a links.html file on a usb key to have my links where-ever I am
ORIGINAL: JeF
Or maybe you use the front page of
The Drop Zone daily ? [;)]
Never heard of that one either - just kidding [:D]
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:25 pm
by CriticalMass
ORIGINAL: sterckxe
ORIGINAL: JeF
Eddy,
It should have been in your bookmarks long ago !
I don't have bookmarks. They're not convenient when you've got multiple computers you surf on and multiple browsers. I've got a links.html file on a usb key to have my links where-ever I am
ORIGINAL: JeF
Or maybe you use the front page of
The Drop Zone daily ? [;)]
Never heard of that one either - just kidding [:D]
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
Eddy,
if you can stand/trust signing up to Google and you would like (should) switch over to Firefox (browser) then there is a Firefox extention from Google (Browser Sync) which doest just what you are looking for: it syncronizes a users browsers on multiple machines, and not just bookmarks, but cookies, passwords and even the status of open tabs and browser history.
Just thought you might be interested.
TANX
Andrew
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:31 pm
by JeF
Moreover, Firefox saves its bookmarks in a standard HTML file named (how clever!) bookmarks.html.
Time to switch maybe ! [;)]
BTW, I don't have a lot of bookmarks either : Internet is too volatile. Google is my friend.
JeF.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:12 pm
by sterckxe
ORIGINAL: JeF
Moreover, Firefox saves its bookmarks in a standard HTML file named (how clever!) bookmarks.html.
Time to switch maybe ! [;)]
BTW, I don't have a lot of bookmarks either : Internet is too volatile. Google is my friend.
JeF.
Thanks guys,
Will look into this
Greetz,
Eddy Sterckx
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:28 pm
by Vance
Feel free to put on the download section my "back to paper mod"!
Of course you can add my HttR mod as well. What? You did already? No problem. [;)]
Black on dark gray is not very readable.
I second that. I would use a lighter gray for the background.
Once our Holland 1940 scenario is ready we 'll let you know. Keep up the good work!
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:14 am
by Rooster
Nice job El Savior - the site looks great!
[&o]
You can link to my blog, even though I don't seem to have much time for updating it like I should.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:25 am
by TheHellPatrol
[:D]Great work...bookmarked, it's a keeper!
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:44 am
by Fred98
It would be handy of there were tips on how to improve your play.
And if there were specific tips on how to win one one scenario played from one side or the other.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:38 am
by El Savior
ORIGINAL: Joe 98
It would be handy of there were tips on how to improve your play.
And if there were specific tips on how to win one one scenario played from one side or the other.
Points noted. Maybe these will be added later.
Jef:
I updated my site and I'n now using lighter grey. You was right, dark gray and black text is a bit hard to read. Hopefully now text is more readable.
Rooster:
I added your site to list
Also COTA downloads section is updated and several links added.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:43 pm
by piotre
Great job, and very nice content [;)].
I too however would ask for a lighter colored background. I still find it pretty hard to read.
Cheers,
Pietro.
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:54 am
by GoodGuy
ORIGINAL: El Savior
I updated my site and I'n now using lighter grey. You was right, dark gray and black text is a bit hard to read. Hopefully now text is more readable.
Nice design, but it is still a bit hard to read, partially:
I recommend exchanging the background - maybe swap the background colour (i'm looking at the index-page atm), the light grey, with the darker grey inside of the "box" frame. This would be even more readable, imho.
Also, the links in the "Welcome" section ("COTA", "HTTR") are barely visible on my screen: The colour u're using for highlighted links would be perfect here. It would be nice if you'd change the link-colour for all links to the "hover"-colour (#9DB54A), the general style wouldn't be killed that way .... or maybe change link colours to "white" with light green as hover-color or maybe even better the other way round

.
Same with "headlines" in the download section: The Scenario names (with their dark green-ish colours) are barely visible, imo. Changing to white or some light green (*whisper: #9DB54A*)

would get it more crisp.
Good job on the rest: 4.9 of 5 points
My 2 cents
RE: Airborne Depot received a facelift
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:23 am
by El Savior
I'll swap the background color to table background color to make it lighter gray. Links are now blue, but probably too dark. I will change these too. My LCD-monitor shows color just fine, but I know that not all monitors are able to show colors that fine. I'll fix link colors now and do the rest probably after the weekend. I need to edit several GIFs color near the buttons to fix the bacground, so it'll take little longer to fix than changing link colors.
Thanks for the feedback guys! It's always welcome!
PS Added: Please go and see my site now with new link colors. Are they better now? Remember to click Browser's REFRESH-button after entering the site.