Battle Plan page updated

[Baak]

I've finally gotten around to tweaking some of the OoH site and decided to start with the Battle Plan.

I've made it XHTML 1.0 Strict (OMG) and although I need to spend a little more time getting those last little things looking right, I've got 95% of it done this morning in a couple of hours.

Please let me know if it looks good/bad for you - especially if you are a Mac user. I have tested it on IE7, FF2, Opera9 on Windows so far.

The main menu (like here on the forums) now has a MariusNet link along with a little [P/G] pair of links next to it. These take you to the current Myth II Players and Games, respectively. Kinda handy.


Oh, and I'm going to get all but the private BIGZIP files on the BP soon(tm) as well.

[lank]

seems to work alright in firefox 2.0.0.11 on mac os 10.3.9.

[Baak]

I've updated it a bit more. Think this is about where I want it now.


P.S. Frum: I moved your reply to the private forums since it's not really for Gabber's Corner.

[vinylrake]

well frum you could always cover your Faux-pas by just sponsoring someone you inadvertently ask as a special guest.

either that or just stop being so damn nice that you have too many friends to keep track of.

[Baak]

Ok, I spent most of the night reworking the Battle Plan and Private Page once more (only Members and Special Guests can access the Private Page).

Both are now running smooth as silk.

I've cleaned them up a little more. Both are completely XHTML 1.0 compliant and the CSS passes the test as well, and most importantly they load that much faster now.

I've also added the public OoH BIGZIP's to the top of the Battle Plan (they stay there no matter how you sort it, which you can do by clicking the header). Rather than describe that again here, read the post on MariusNet to find out more. Oh, and any OoH Member or SG who asks me where they are gets to bring cookies AND brownies to the next Match.

[sillek]

Looks exactly the same to me. I take it that is a good thing ? [meaning: "What is this xhtml strict 1.0 stuffs?"]

[vinylrake]

Looks exactly the same to me. I take it that is a good thing ? [meaning: "What is this xhtml strict 1.0 stuffs?"]

It's techo-speak for "I am a masochistic geek.".
:)

[Baak]

Looks exactly the same to me. I take it that is a good thing ? [meaning: "What is this xhtml strict 1.0 stuffs?"]

It's techo-speak for "I am a masochistic geek.".

lol - yes - it means converting old-style table-based formatting and non-compliant HTML code into 21st Century XHTML/CSS code. It's geeky.

For the user it means it's now much more cross-browser compliant, the fonts (especially sizes) should be more consistent between Windows/Mac, etc. As an example, you should be able to adjust the font size and see the whole page adjust much more intelligently.

Another plus is the file went from 30kb+20kb CSS to 12kb+6.5kb CSS, which means it's almost 1/3 the previous size and should load faster. Lastly, I can adjust visual aspects much more easily should I wish.

For the most part, the user experience is almost the same - the behind-the-scenes stuff is what has changed.

Oh, and now it automatically adjusts "New" and "Recent" - before I was doing this manually. Again - geeky stuff.



Next, it's on to the OoH Downloads page (I'm going to put tabs on it and maybe some search capability) and the Mything Links page. These are the biggies. Then I'll be adding some new stuff.