I'm Done.

I dont have the time to invest in mapping since opening the game store, and besides I dont really have anything in common anymore with most of you. So I thank you for your time and advice when I was more active. I may stop in from time to time.. but like I said, either deal with it, shut up or move along.. I am choosing to do all three..

Hasta La Pasta.

Well, we'd still value your feedback whenever you do stop by. -People always like a comments or two on their work. -And you know how to dish out the brutal truth...

And btw, I own a copy of the Doom board game (and it's expansion) -and I agree, it's one of the coolest boardgames I've ever played. -It's just hard finding people with as much patience as yourself to play along with. -Have you played ctf with six people? -now THAT gets pretty hectic. (it's available in the expansion). I've only gotten to play it like 6 times. And each group of people I play with only get to the 2nd mission, and then we stop. I've never completed the whole campaign. (I've also downloaded some other maps posted up on the official website too!)

-But still, we (or certainly I) don't mind ya stopping in to rant from time to time. -keeps us on our toes, even if most of the active members here happen to disagree with whatever you're talking about -but that's the fun of it.

-At least keep us updated with the store!

later...

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

I don't think this is necessary.

muhnay said:
I dont have the time to invest in mapping since opening the game store

That's ok, you don't have to be activity mapping to visit here! Just because your unable to remain active on a daily bases or whatever, doesn't mean you have to leave.

muhnay said:
and besides I dont really have anything in common anymore with most of you

You already have something in common with us, that's given. You become a member to the same community as the rest of us meaning you have similar interests to the rest of us, if everyone shared the same views things would be boring don't you think?

I hope this isn't because of the "FRY THIS BITCH!" thread

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Sorta was Aaron.. I just find myself aggravated by some here and want to not associate with them. So instead of further making an ass of myself, I thought it would be best to mosey on. But here I am back to see what some have said.. I will try to stop by from time to time if for anything to stick the cattle prod into those who aggravate me.

Oh I am trying to get my new page working right.. trying to get it to where the background stays still and the front scrolls.. any ideas?

http://toysoldierseptx.com/

also how do I get the page to cap the top and not have the space.. also at the bottom too.. when I loose the WEB PAGE UNDER line, I want the feet to be at the bottom of the page. If you have any ideas let me know.. thanks!

There is an empty <div align="center"></div> element immediately after your body tag and before your content. This is causing a line break that appears as the gap at the top of the page.

To anchor the background tag, apply the following css style controls:

background-attachment: fixed;
background-position: top;

You will want to add those to the body style where you have declared the background image position.

You may wish to prevent the background image from tiling, especially as it is nowhere near wide enough to fill even a modest display width, nor tall enough to cover all your content. For example: You should also use the background-position control to center align the background image, else your main content is centered but the background is still left-aligned.

Looks like you've designed on a small resolution without maybe thinking about how it will display on larger screen sizes... no big deal, just a couple of small fixes and it's easy fixed! You will probably want to rethink the background image though... setting a background like that makes it difficult to acommodate different window sizes.

The site looks real nice! Gradients always make nice sub-backgrounds, like for info panels and whatnot. -And the soldier adds some character. When you do get more pages in, I think you should have other 'stances' for that drawn soldier, or other ranks of soldiers (or like an engineer plugging his ears right before the cannon goes off!) bordering the other pages, -to keep in theme.

Real quick I noticed this on the home page this line:

"If your a gamer in need of a safe and fun place to game, we are your destination."

-The first 'your' should read: you're.

Also, 'compititions' is misspelled.

That is all!

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Blog: www.playingarchitecture.net
LinkedIn: Eric Lancon
Twitter:@Riven202

Thanks I will fix the spelling errors. I will see what I can do for other pages having similar guys.

Hey Larchy, thanks for the help.. I have the BG stuck now.. let me know if you still have that error, or if it still does the same thing when you view it. If It Does I can try a different BG then... kinda sucks because I like how it looks.

My Res is 1400x1050 or something to that effect.

Yeah that's fixed the background... it's centered with the main content now m8: The gap is still present at the top of the page because you haven't removed the empty div after the body tag

<body>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="justify">
  <table width="200" border="0" align="center">
    <tr>
      <td>[simg]images/ToySoldiersEPTX.png[/simg]</td>

    </tr>
  </table>
  <h1 align="center" class="style2">WEB PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION! </h1>
</div>
<map name="Map">
  <area shape="rect" coords="601,401,719,439" href="http://toysoldierseptx.com/smf/index.php" target="_self">
</map>
</body>

Hey man, I don't think anyone intended to offend you or drive you away in the other thread. I certainly didn't. Anyways if you're going to leave then good luck in your endeavours.

With respect to your website, you may want to make the location and contact info out of text, so that a customer can copy/paste it.

Maze, no one ran me off mate.. I just have been so busy recently, and I have been feeling a little out of touch with the community. Yeah I like how I am the immature one, yet they fail to see while pointing fingers and calling me so, they are in return doing the same, making an ass of them selves. The only people who can say they have not are the ones who shut up and said nothing insulting either way.

LARCHY, please circle it, I fail to see what your talking about.. it might be because its 4:41am for me and I am half asleep, or it maybe because I am a noob and have no clue. =)

Thanks for the help peeps. Look at that I said I am done, and look at me.. I have been around more.. maybe I have some sorta dyslexic reverse thing going on.. heh!

Muhnay said:
...also how do I get the page to cap the top and not have the space..

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LARCHY, please circle it, I fail to see what your talking about.

<body>
<div align="center"></div>
<div align="justify">
<table ...etc

So just remove that line from my HTML and it will fix it? Ahh because I have the Justfy line there and I forgot to remove the center one..

Just a random question here: (and a bit offtopic too): Is HTML easy to learn? I heard it is but I wanna be sure. Not that i want to make web pages in the future... or now.

Niborius said:
Just a random question here: (and a bit offtopic too): Is HTML easy to learn? I heard it is but I wanna be sure. Not that i want to make web pages in the future... or now.

Yeah, its a very simple easy to learn language. The only hard thing about html is making sure your web page complies with W3 standards, which is an at the moment non essential guide line for designing web pages so it displays correctly on all web browesers.

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Larchy I removed that line, and it still has the gap.

Oh and right now the page is one huge image.. I will be cutting that up into many parts soon. Will help on load times, as well as give me more options like mouse over images etc.

Muhnay said:
Larchy I removed that line, and it still has the gap.

You'll need to add a zero top margin to the body css style.

Muhnay said:
..like mouse over images etc.

Best way to achieve this is to assign the link element a style, block display and the desired dimensions, and bung the image you want in as a background. Then use background-position on the :hover part of the style to move the bg position to a new part of the same graphic. See how the main snarkpit menu bar works if you need an example (the home/maps/articles etc bar)

Niborius said:
Is HTML easy to learn?

If you can use forum bbcode you can use HTML. It isn't a language really, just a loose collection of rules.

W3C compliance is overrated by angsty nerds. It's just stupid stuff, for example single html tags just end in a plain > but xhtml have to self close using /> and it makes no difference whatsoever to how any of the browsers handle things... the only thing to complain is the W3C validator.

You'll need to figure out how css works too though, and while that is is easy it takes experience to be able to use it well and get the results you want.

After you've spent 6 and a half minutes learning that you can get on with some proper languages

Larchy Show me.. please.

Well to fix the gap get rid of that empty div that I highlighted in red above, then in your css body { } tag add margin-top: 0px;

Or add

body {

margin: 0px;

}

Whatever

For links just make an myurl
[/code]

Then control it using the class reference...

.nav_link {
    width: 160px;
    height: 30px;
    background: url(../images/nav_link.png) no-repeat;
}

That will make the link 160px by 30px and assign the given image as its background.

So, normally you'd have a 160x30px image for the background?

So what you do is make the image 160x60px and on the upper 30px have your button, and on the lower 30px put your rollover button (remember those menu graphics you made last autumn?)

Only the top of the image will still be used by the link for the background, but then on a rollover what you do is get it to move the background position so that the lower 30 px are showing.

.nav_link:hover {
    background-position: 0px -30px;
}

Obviously it's x/y cartesian so you could equally have the on/off part of the graphic side by side and move it by the x axis... makes no odds.

Google 'css rollover' for loads of tutorials

I use Dreamweaver, so for me its a bit easier.. I just assign the image placement. But yeah you can also edit the code too.. so that is what I will do for the space ontop. Thanks for the info Larchy.