Okay, all the fun with the Yuku skins and CSS and whatnot -- plus a new IDE to play in at work that includes website development -- has motivated me to try redesigning my website again.

So here's a prototype to look at: http://www.eclipse.net/~rms/test]Dummy home page. It's all CSS and no tables (except for a webring widget at the bottom). It's got a few problems, as I'm still learning what the hell I'm doing -- for instance, I'd really like that right-hand column to automatically stretch to the same length as the left-hand column, and to make sure the copyright notice floats at the bottom. I'm not sure about fonts yet, and I'd really like a menu with dropdowns, although I'll settle for what I've constructed if I need to.

Any suggestions, advice, code, whatever to help me refine this prototype would be very welcome.

Thanks!
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

OK, I recently had a bit of inspiration and tried to start on a write-up for The Moon/Luna. Said inspiration died when I realised I didn't know where
Kandor City was located on the surface and it took me half an hour of digging the boards before I hit Wikipedia to find out where the JLA Watchtower was
placed.

According to the scan from a JLA encyclopedia, the Watchtower was based on the Sea of Serenity, so I tried to find the best place where it didn't upset the
Senshi. Of course, this is when I found out about Shacklton Crater where NASA hopes to put the first Luna base because of the high possibility of ice being
there.

So, do we go with where I eventually placed the Watchtower/Kandor City (Crater Posidonius, on the Northern edge), or do we move the whole thing to a usable
resource and go for Shacklton Crater?

It's almost a year out of date, and honestly, we can't keep it up to date fast enough to reflect the current population of the SG. Maybe it's time
to delete it and leave the listing to the SG window in-game. Thoughts?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

It's a little-known fact that lolcats predate teh intarwebs by sixty years, as we may see here.

--Sam

"I'm in ur signachr, stealin ur Tick qote."

This post is for two things - to help me keep track of what I think I've done with the forum design, and to let you know what I think I've done with the forum design.

Given web browser issues and certain aspects of the design of Yuku, it's possible something I think I've fixed may not be entirely fixed. So, let me know if there's something here that isn't working under some circumstance. And, of course, let me know if you see a problem that isn't on the list at all.

DONE

*Style switcher - Because options are nice. It makes one wonder why this isn't standard equipment for all boards. This requires javascript to work, so the one I've modified to be a little easier on people without javascript is the default skin. Unless otherwise noted, anything listed below should apply to all skins. There's a copy of the original skin there with the various javascript things, as well as a few things copied from the skins library to help tide people over. The style switcher is at the bottom of the page (though it can be moved, if anyone thinks a different location would be better), and may require a hard reload before it starts working. (At least, it did for me.)

*Hide Kudos - Not needed here.

*Remove that border on the signature - I thought I was the only one getting worked up about that, but I'm not complaining about having my desires endorsed.

*Added bar between post subject and post body - Once I started looking at older posts that had more post subjects, it was obviously not quite right.

*'No javascript skin' - Default skin has the navigation box set to not display. Switching to any other skin should make it work again. If anyone cares. Same thing for the forum-jump box at the bottom of the page (which really stretches out the page for no-javascript users), social links (does anyone even care?), and the extra post tools (mostly of limited utility, and they really stretch out the page).

*Quotes - Added a border to blockquote tags. Different ways of doing a quote will still look different because of the different html Yuku produces for them, but this will at least set them all off a bit from surrounding text. The ezboard professional style does something a bit odd to some, but I'm not quite sure why at the moment.

IN PROGRESS
*Skin design - That SJGames color scheme people seem to like, and getting the default skin set up to look more like the old forums, because *I* liked it.

NOT DONE
*Quick reply - I don't like it, CattyNebulart doesn't like it, but until Bob no longer needs it, it's here to stay.

KNOWN ISSUES
*Post subject/post body seperator doesn't always display - Behavior is inconsistent and might be due to browser hiccups.

*Borders on some tables appear and disappear - Almost certainly due to browser hiccups, but awfully weird nonetheless. I haven't done anythign to the css code for the tables...

When I first made Cyberman 8, it was totally as an "homage" character. Just to see if you could make the 8-Man costume in CoH. I had every intention
to keep Lora'Lai as my main and level her up. But C8 has taken the majority of my time. He's incredibly fun to play. He's grown beyond his origins
I think, while still being the same guy in my head. And I've enjoyed RPing him more than I thought I would.

So now I'm really close. I'm slightly more than 2 bubbles away from level 50. And I'm thinking I ought to give you notice to the effect. Because
I'd love to put in an extended session with you fine people that would put him over the top. Brightsky in particular ought to be there, I think.

When would be the best time for this? Maybe a Task Force night?

Anyone who's seen anything odd and can reproduce it or point at a thread where it happens, please do so in this thread. I have a Yuku admin asking what
bugs we're seeing after I groused about it, and I want to list everything for him/her/them. I've already pointed out the random new/read status and
the lack of CR/LFs in code-tagged text.

Thanks.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

A little something I knocked out a few weeks ago, but finally stopped tweeking it (Probably needs a better name though).

Enjoy.

Note: - Radio Communications.

Okay, I've spotted an "update" on one of the fenspace topics for the 27th of January..... 2074/2075? or 1974/1975?
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Local band that disintegrated, but they put out a CD first.

Title: Gospel Rock

Band: The SplendourBog

Run Time: 2:57

Gospel Rock

When I was young, liquid granite

I was diagnosed schizophrenic

Neither feldspar, nor mica, nor quartz

But the sum of the three

Bonded igneously

That means melted together for life

Well, I was hot and dejected

Oh, I was injected

Under layers and layers of dirt

But, it was there that I changed

All my crystals rearranged

Into G-N-E-I-S-S, gneiss

So, take a look, and you'll see

That I'm not what I used to be

I've been touched metamorphically

All the heat and the pressure

They changed me forever

So don't take me for granite, I'm gneiss

Well, I wasn't to been seen

Till time changed the scene

Exposing my face to the sun

But, now its here that I sit

Being worn down bit by bit

Oh, erosion is wearing me down

So, be aware, have a look

Underground, underfoot

For that beautiful pinky-grey face

The Canadian shield

Holds a magnamous yield

Of the rock that was changed into gneiss

(C)1990 Jason Summach, Watchin' Music Co. (SOCAN)

I figure this would let Doug have a stone form and possibly some form of earth control.
Earthquakes if one was feeling terrible, generous, and the local conditions were open to such a thing. Japan, California, anywhere on a fault line really...
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