I still have to set up the downloads page and the FAQ and all that. Or rather, I'll have to ask Mira how to do that!
But, mark your links, that's the new official address of the BIP Project!
PS - Do you all think it looks ok even though we have to scroll up and down? Or should I shrink all the images so that the entire page fits the browser without scrolling?
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Mira, do you have to scroll up and down to see it all? I have my monitor set at 800 x 600 and it's a 17" monitor, but I still have to scroll up and down to see it all. Weird.
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Halaster Blackcloak wrote:It's only minor up-and-down scrolling to see the entire page, but I agree. Doing it smaller would look too small, even on 800x600 fields. I think.
As long as there's no horizontal scrolling, I don't mind.
That last is the most important. Horizontal scrolling is evil in web-pages...
I'd like to suggest you use the JPG version of the center picture though (I included one in the zip) for faster loading, it's about 1/10th of the size of the BMP that's being used now
Mira (If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why's it still #2?)
I'm not sure if I could figure out the centering very easily, I only managed to get the pics where they are by using specific pixel placement. I'd have to figure out someother way of placing them in order to center it and I'm not an HTML expert
There might be some relative vs absolute clauses one can use, or if I could wrap that whole thing in some kind of container that can be centered that would work. Maybe someone has a suggestion on how that could work?
Mira (Success is the art of making your mistakes when nobody's looking)
I think it's ok for now, not sure what else we can tweak. Unther, which part is hugging the window? Not sure what you mean.
Mira, I tried converting the BMP to JPG, but no matter how I do it, it looks far less detailed and clear than the BMP. I figured it's only 469kb, not bad even by dial up.
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ok, I'll take your word as far as visuals. my eyes are not that good any more, I couldn't tell the difference from the JPG and BMP files when I looked at them. Same reason I had to give up painting minis, I just can't see things that well anymore
Centering normal stuff is fairly easy, but when you're trying to center a group of objects and preserve the relative positioning of said objects with each other, it's less so.
Mira (If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning)
Have at it, I waited a couple of days when the call went out hoping someone else would do it before I stepped up I know I'm not that good at it, I just have Dreamweaver to help get it working
Mira (Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together)
I have a version of the page where it is centered (at least it is in Firefox which is the only browser I have handy). I have also converted the .bmp to .jpg. What should I do with it?
Hopefully Halaster will PM you with his email so you can send it to him. I could send it to him if he doesn't get to you in a day or two, but I think he gives out his email to very few people so I can't presume to give you the email myself.
Odds are that if it works in Firefox it'll work in the inferior browsers too!
Mira (The only time the world beats a path to your door is if you're in the bathroom)
IE7 needs to be checked. It is possible that there will be issues, as the trick I'm using is documented as not working in IE7 (though there is a work around based on exploiting a different broken feature of IE7). I just can't test easily due to lack of an IE7 box.
On my XP box with a 19" monitor set at 1024X768, I have to scroll a bit, but it's not a problem. And on my vista box with a widescreen monitor set at some higher res, no scrolling.
Either way the page looks great.
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