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for anyone interested (since its been pretty quiet around here)..i have been working on the site in my freetime..not much else to say for now except none of the rules/guidelines are set yet so if you have any more opinions, by all means post

Again..for anyone interested..I've finalized the design for the new page and currently I'm writing the code to generate the design.

Because I wanted the website to look exactly the same on MorphOS as any other system, there's no stylesheets and the design is pretty simple for the most part (pixel based)..the only thing that would look different is the text from actual article posts which is the only thing that isn't rendered in graphics. Note that all graphics are cached so that they aren't generated every time the page is viewed.

The nice thing about this design (even though the design isn't that exciting..graphics aren't my specialty anyways..) is that its fully customizable, you can pick any and all of the colors you want and the graphics will be generated for you. Hopefully some people will mess around with this feature and create some cool color themes for the rest of us. The color of every pixel of the graphics is user controlled, as well as font colors and background colors and the other HTML elements..I'm not entirely sure whether I will allow text colors other than the white on black for now, because that might take a while to generate down the line. For example, someone makes a news entry and the title has to get rendered in every color theme, or possibly in each color theme when it's viewed (only rendering used color themes) and then caching it afterwards..We'll see..

If you wanna see a mock-up, click here

If theres anything you don't like about the design, post here..but there's not gonna be drastic changes..

[ Edited by posure on 2004/7/1 12:36 ]

Nice going posure! Keep it going; looking good

Looks nice i like it!

I like it too and cant wait for the final product to get done and posted!! Keep up the good work.

Talking about integration, why not use same look as MorphZone? and make it bounties.morph.zone and MorphBounties.org be a redirection to these? ;)

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Primarily because building on existing code that was not written by yourself is a pain in the @ss. That and it gives me alot more control (over what I can put into it). However, we are trying to set up something so that the bounties site will be able to use this site's userbase, which shouldn't be too difficult. Plus there's gonna be alot of per user data that would require mucking up the current database..more trouble than it's worth.

Long time no one talking, I've finally had some more time to work on the site (been busy with some other things as of late) and finished all of the page layout generation routines. The site should look exactly the same in most (if not all) browsers and has been tested in MSIE, Firefox, and Voyager using WinUAE (I don't have an actual Amiga or MorphOS system..yet anyways..)

Only difference is that theres a single pixel offset when aligning buttons to the right in Voyager which isn't supposed to happen (and theres no way of fixing this without CSS, which no current MorphOS browsers support yet really).

My main goal graphic-wise was to make it look identical on all platforms, and with that single pixel exception, it does..Also..WinUAE was running at 16bit color so the color looks kinda crappy. Here's some screenshots:
http://www.posure.net/upload/files/morphbounties-amiga.png
http://www.posure.net/upload/files/morphbounties-firefox.png
http://www.posure.net/upload/files/morphbounties-msie.png

Moving on, after finishing these generation routines, I can now work on the backend..but if you wanna check things out for yourself..

Short URL for the default color preset:
http://shared.posure.net/gfxgen.php?mode=layout&default=yes

Long URL for the default color preset:
URL too long to post, but click here!!

The site will load much faster as most of the graphics later will be cached, right now they're generated on the spot though. Feel free to change the hex values in the second URL, all of the graphics are created using the colors found in the GET server variables so you can make it whatever colors you please.

If I find time I will create a preliminary preset page so that people can make their own color presets which will then be saved and included in the site or actually, I'll also post a link to the forwarding page I made, and posted a copy+paste of the documentation for the colors in there as well.

http://shared.posure.net/forward.htm

Hopefully I'll have time to code a preset page and some people will be interested in making some color themes (authors will be given credit, if they want it).

..till I have some more progress to show

And to anyone who feels making the site fully user controlled color-wise is an unnecessary waste of time? You're right, it is..but doing stuff like this makes developing this site more beneficial to me as well as I like to try to do something new with each project I take up. And doing new things is what keeps things interesting for me (I'm a software engineering major at MSOE in Milwaukee, USA if anyone knows what/where that is)

I've edited this post quite a few times now..I'll probably be releasing some of the generation functions I've used on the personal website in the future if anyones interested..(www.posure.net)..however I'm not making that site until I finish this one..but if anyone's bored and wants to see a prototype for that site:
http://www.posure.net/upload/files/posurenetproto.gif

But don't rip off my graphics/design or I'll cut of your face.

[ Edited by posure on 2004/7/24 3:17 ]

Nice to see things coming along Posure; I hope that it won't be too long before the actual site will see the light (I'm saving already ). Carry on soldier!

ps.
the graphics look good in Opera too

They also look god in Safari on OSX