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[PK Games]

works for me!

[Shaira]

Hi Sverre,

Looks great to me, and works fine in my IE on Vista!

Just from the POV of aesthetics, you might want to recolour (or get rid of ) the blue outlines of the sections in the RH column. They look a bit jagged on my machine and might work better either in black or just removed. Also (but this is really just IMHO), maybe change the font colour of the "Basic Roleplaying Forum" text at the top of the page to match the warm-earth tones of the new look n feel - maybe browns or maroons or even black rather than the current dark blue?

Anyhow, looks great. I like the parchment effect and the neat bas-relief backgrounds to the section headers in the RH column!

Cheers,

Sarah

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by Shaira

Just from the POV of aesthetics, you might want to recolour (or get rid of ) the blue outlines of the sections in the RH column. They look a bit jagged on my machine and might work better either in black or just removed.

I agree and I've tried, but still haven't figured out how to do just that. But I'll go ask the on the mod forums to hear if they have any ideas.

Also (but this is really just IMHO), maybe change the font colour of the "Basic Roleplaying Forum" text at the top of the page to match the warm-earth tones of the new look n feel - maybe browns or maroons or even black rather than the current dark blue?

Hmm... I agree there too now that you mention it. I'll go about experimenting with some other colours!
Thanks!

SGL.

[frogspawner]

Sorry, but it looks broken to me too. The bar scene picture has another row of half-bottles underneath, like in dzappone's screenshot, and the word "Central" wraps down right next to it as well.

PS: Why is doing this more important than getting on with the SharedWorld map?

[Trifletraxor]

Originally Posted by frogspawner

Sorry, but it looks broken to me too. The bar scene picture has another row of half-bottles underneath, like in dzappone's screenshot, and the word "Central" wraps down right next to it as well.

How big screen, which resolution and what browser do you use?

PS: Why is doing this more important than getting on with the SharedWorld map?

My attention wanders, but I will get back to it. I'm just dreading it a bit since I think that I maybe should start up with a bigger resolution map to allow for more further development (which leads to quite an amount of repeat work having to be done!).

SGL.

[Shaira]

Originally Posted by Trifletraxor

I'm just dreading it a bit since I think that I maybe should start up with a bigger resolution map to allow for more further development (which leads to quite an amount of repeat work having to be done!).

Hi Sverre,

I know this is a bit OT, but if you're talking about Campaign Cartographer, my advice would be to work with the size of map you need right now. It's always a temptation to have a humongous master map and zoom in and in on that map till you get to the area you want, but IMHO it generally leads to a huge, unwieldy, and rather unaesthetic document!

I find in my own mapmaking it's much better to have dedicated purpose-driven maps, each in their own "sandbox". That way too you can tinker with the aesthetics to fit the scale of map - different projections, etc. Once you get a certain amount of experience with CC, it's actually easier to run up a new coastline / river set / whatever, than to try to have to manage a map which is meant to be viewable at widely different levels of zoom.

All IMHO of course - your mileage will definitely vary! Happy mapping!

Cheers,

Sarah

[AikiGhost]

Sorry to be negative about this place but....

1. Its really ugly. The graphics are too fussy and unnecessary. Simple is good, there is a reason google is the no1 search engine

2. The backgrounds are too dark making the text harder to read and the fonts are too big. In design generally backgrounds behind text are frowned upon. People don't visit sites for graphics they visit for content. The text is the thing.

Seriously the old page was easier to read and more functional. Please go back to it.

[frogspawner]

Originally Posted by Trifletraxor

How big screen, which resolution and what browser do you use?

17", 1024x768 (32bit colour), IE7. Pretty standard, I think...

[rust]

I have the current home page not broken, but the page behind the link in
the posting (no. 13) in this thread is broken... ?

No, sorry: The page behind the link is broken when I minimize the picture,
and not broken when I maximize it - whatever that may mean ...

[jarulf]

Nice with a bit of sprucing up of the old place
A few comments though, the top of the shelf with the bottles is repeated below the picture and the parchment background, while attractive is a mite too dark for easy reading.

In short, pretty much was has been said before.

Firefox, 19" screen 1280x1024.