amiga.org's image is slowly changing again...

[Karlos]

Actually, I take it back - the generated html isnt that bad...

[Karlos]

Wayne, you must be tinkering like anything just now. Each time I refresh it looks different :-D

re tinkering :

Yes, yes I am.

[Karlos]

-edit-

Oops forgot main point. It actually looks quite neat just now...

Off topic, Wayne, how many groansomely bad jokes does it take to be banned from the site :-D

[carls]

@Wayne

I was referring to the HTML code on the site. It isn't that bad considering it's generated from Xoops, but it was more than I had the energy to hack around in :-)

Mainly it's the mix of HTML formatting and CSS formatting (with colours etc.), but I guess it's the best solution if you want it to look good both on Amiga and PC browsers.

[amigamad]

I like it i think the site looks great although i prefer red to blue. :-)

[mikeymike]

The colour scheme is looking better now than it was earlier today, but please lose that lighter blue (in table headings), that with white text on top burns my eyes :-)

@mikeymike,

I *know* that I said "don't bitch.  suggest" earlier.  :-P

[Calen]

The new look is looking good Wayne, only thing i can fault is the blue background, you know you want to change it  ;-)
Perhaps a lighter shade of blue or maybe a cream colour?
I'd seen a nice one last night, the one before this and after the chrome, it looked nice back then anyway, but i wasnt to sober so i could be just dreaming it all  :-o  :-)

[Blomberg]

...  maybe change the hue slightly of that ^^^^  grey to make it fit better into the whole "blue" theme  ;-)

[mikeymike]

@ Wayne

Looking good now :-)

Anyway, I wasn't bitching, though my constructive suggestion was inferred rather than said outright :-)

@Guys,

Considering that we can't change the actual box layout of Xoops version 1, I would WELCOME any of you out there to create an HTML mockup of exactly what you would like Amiga.org to look like.  If any of you actually toss in an idea, we'll all vote on it and I'll do my best to make Amiga.org look like it.

Otherwise, what I'm getting is

User1 - "Argh!  The light blue!"
User2 - "I Love the blue"
User3 - "You really should change the grey"
User4 - "I really like the grey".

In other words, since each of you has drastically different configs and some of you are operating in a very minimalistic primal "8 color scheme" (seemingly), we are getting no where.  

Until which time as i see bonafide mockups, I'll just have to go with how it looks on my monitor (1024x768, millions of colors).

[Darken]

amiga.org still doesn't validate :-(

http://validator.w3.org

amiga.org still doesn't validate

...and it never will, thanks to the lax programming of the Xoops team and their desire to go XML and abandon HTML.

[iamaboringperson]

Otherwise, what I'm getting is

User1 - "Argh! The light blue!"
User2 - "I Love the blue"
User3 - "You really should change the grey"
User4 - "I really like the grey".

 :roflmao:

[carls]

Wayne wrote:

amiga.org still doesn't validate

...and it never will, thanks to the lax programming of the Xoops team and their desire to go XML and abandon HTML.

There's nothing XML with the generated HTML code (it's SGML-HTML, not XHTML) - it just seems like the Xoops team is plain lazy :-)

I work as a professional web developer, and although it's good that a site validates it's not always necessary (IMHO). Most of the time you'll have to work from the design and get the site to look good and function on the following browsers; Mac: IE5+, NS6+, PC: IE5+, NS6+, preferably Opera, Linux: Mozilla, preferably also Opera and Konqueror.

To this it should be added that the MSIE team for the Mac and Win32 versions are two different teams developing two different browser cores. This makes for a lot of interesting bugs in the Mac versions.

Fact is, that Mozilla (Gekko) is the most standards-compliant browser so far. Try running that on a PII 333MHz :-)

Then there's the specialized sites like amiga.org. They should work on all of the above, the three Amiga browsers and preferably some other ones too (like that new one for MacOSX, whatchacallit... oh yeah, Safari!)

Point being? Well, as long as the sites work on all of the above, I wouldn't really care if it validates or not.  :-D