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Klaas

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  1. First one:

    Problem here is that you're trying to put too much in one picture. Either you have a much larger banner or you get rid of things that aren't so important.

    There also isn't a good balance aside from the left title and the right logo. It feels as if there's no real background but simply some pictures put atop eachother. So either you should make the foreground images stand out a lot more and make the background more monotone.

    The background is also composed of three areas which makes it seems as if there are three different backgrounds instead of one. You should make it blend much more into eachother.

    I'm also not a fan of the font you're using, looks a bit plain imho.

    For the second one the same comments apply though your background blends a lot more.

    You do have a color problem there though, the purple, blue and white should be enough, so maybe you should replace the yellow by white or something.

    Such a background is also not so suitable for such a small images. The three right images are a bit too much, maybe use one or two but three makes it all too full. If you get rid of the last two I'm sure it'll look much better.

    Good job though, just remember the saying "less is more" and a quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupery: "You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." ;)

    It's also a good idea trying to look from a different perspective at your images, eg. look at them as a composition of colors and shapes and make sure that composition makes sense and that it's balanced enough.

  2. Hmmm which Oblivion exactly? There's Stalker and there's The Elder Scrolls.

    I've been looking forward to both, both sound like very revolutionary games regarding gameply (unlike DOOM3, HL2, AoE3, ...). It's a pity that Stalker has been delayed so much, it probably lost much of its fame that way.

    TES OTOH seems to be a very anticipated game. I've only played Morrowind and that was quite an experience as opposed to other RPGs. The great thing is that it's extremely open ended and there's so much content. It seems Oblivion will improve the bad sides of Morrowind (eg. very dynamic AI, much better combat, great graphics, interesting quests, etc.), so imho it'll be quite a hit when it comes out (next month IIRC).

  3. Thanks :P

    Still needs a lot of work, whole bunch of little mistakes and such. I got the browser working already, currently with back and forward button and a working address bar. One annoying thing though is that I can't figure out how to change the address in the address bar (a text input element) when a user clicks a link in the site he's viewing in the iframe.

    So if someone knows how I can register clicks or onloads in an iframe (onload event doesn't seem to work) and how I can track the URL of the current page in the iframe I would be very grateful :P

    @Carlos

    1. Yeah, I got the menu bar from a screenshot of a beta version of Tiger. What is the spotlight icon?

    2. The border is supposed to be a shadow :) It's the default one that comes with the javascript API (Dojo) I'm using, looks good on white but not on a dark background, will have to change that. I'll have a look at the buttons :o

    Still need to figure out how to add some nice rounder corners, doesn't seem to be so easy in Dojo :/

    3. Myeah, and it'll stay like that unfortunatly. The thing is that the dock uses one image for each icon, so not 64x64 for small and gradually to 128x128 for zoomed in. So the icons look pretty ugly. I also can't figure out how to add a separator between the bin and the rest and how to make the background stretch together with the icons.

    Other than that the dock should work fine, well if you're using FF or IE6, possibly doesn't work in other browsers.

    The thing is though that I won't make it an exact copy of OSX, or not for the time being. It's more meant to be a marketing stunt (eg. Million Dollar Homepage), so it should look just a little different than OSX to emphasize my need for a Mac :)

    I've also been thinking to add some strength to the marketing message by giving everyone who donates the opportunity to win an iPod (one person randomly drawn). I'm not sure if this is legally allowed, sounds a bit like a lottery and they're extremely strict on that in Belgium.

    OT:

    Accidently pressed the edit button instead of the quote button on your post Carlos and edited it :) Put it back though, just telling in case I made a mistake when putting the original text back.

  4. The website is up again, looks really cool :P

    Doing something very similar, using dojo-toolkit instead of qooxdoo (is easier to use and customize and has a fisheye widget :o).

    I'm planning to make it more usable than the flyakite website and have a Safari-like browser in it (using an iframe).

    The reason I'm actually doing this is a fundraising compaign to get myself one of those new iMacs. Not sure if there would be people willing to donate, but I can always try :P

  5. I doubt Hillary Clinton would ever get in. The basic fact is that she is a woman, and I dont think too many Americans (both Democrats and Rebublicans) could accept that.

    Why not? I know there are a few extreme conservatives in the US but I don't think the majority of the US is so backward to think that a woman isn't fit for that job. I didn't hear many complaints about Rice or Albright, both women that have/had a very high political position.

  6. Hmmm hiding code from a browser is never a good idea but anyway:

    for IE only:

    *html elementyouwanttostyle {}

    hide from IE:

    body>elementyouwanttostyle

    Best thing though is using conditional comments in your <head>:


    <link type="tekst/css" rel="stylesheet" href="yourprimarystylesheet.css" />
    <!--[if IE 6]>
    <link type="tekst/css" rel="stylesheet" href="stylehseetwithstylesforIE6.css" />
    <![endif]-->

  7. Do you mean that the rollover with the div worked on IE? So you have something like div:hover {background:transparent url(rolloverimg)}?

    That would be really strange, only IE7 supports that AFAIK.

    But it's generally better to do it with the a elements instead of adding an extra div tag. The less divs, the better in most situations :P

  8. Qooxdoo (demo) provides functional Windows-like controls in Javascript, though the default is the Windows 2000 theme rather than the (ugly :)) Windows XP ones, and it's intended as a library for writing applications rather than as a demonstration of an OS (so I'd guess it's not precisely what you're looking for).

    In fact I'm using Qooxdoo to simulate OSX with javascript. :P

    It's a very neat library, but not very well documented and although it supports themes it's not that flexible so I have to hack a lot of the code (close, max and min buttons are on the right and you can't change their style for example).

    But it's cool with the window and widget support, don't have to spend loads of time to simulate an application window now :P

    I only seem to remember a javascript OS X.

    But the site is down. :)

    http://osx.portraitofakite.com/

    Hmm I have FlyakiteOSX installed and it's an application that transforms windows xp in osx visually, it's not a javascript simulation of osx AFAIK, but very cool nonetheless :o

  9. Hmm don't understand what the previous problem has to do with it because I thought it's a problem related to vertical menus, not horizontal.

    So, as Lorian suggested remove the display:block. Maybe try floating the links too, and make sure they have enough space.

    The margin-top:-11px could also have someting to do with it.

    Another thing used to space text horizontally is line-height, so you might want to experiment with that too (apply it to the ul).

    Regarding the rollover divs:

    You should do something like this instead:


    <ul>
    <li><a href="#" id="contact"></a></li>
    </ul>


    a:link#contact, a:visited#contect {background:transparent url(location of normal image) no-repeat center; height:heightofimage; width:widthofimage}
    a:hover#contact {background:transparent url(location of hover image) no-repeat center; height:; width:;}

    If you hover over the div it won't do anything in IE, IE only recognizes hover on a elements.

    If this code doesn't work it may be that the order of the :link and #contact is wrong, don't remember the right order anymore.

  10. Hmmm, I don't know if it's such a nail to their coffin. Sure, I'm using it too, but I'm thinking about switching back to Outlook.

    The main reason I'm using Outlook is the whole integration of email, task manager, calendar and appointment manager and that I can sync the whole thing with my PDA.

    Maybe Mozilla should bundle Calender/Sunbird with Thunderbird (not as an extension), throw in some additional features and also offer a Windows Mobile version. If they ever do that I'm sure it's a big nail to MS's coffin :P

  11. See how the elements in the li's are positioned. If the element in the li is a block-level element that may be the cause, though I highly doubt only IE would position them vertically because it's normal behaviour.

    Be sure that if you use float:whatever you also use display:inline for that element because IE tends to double the padding and margin with floats in certain situations.

    If that doesn't work you should show me the code.

  12. @SGE

    Yes, the subsidies haven't disappeared yet, but they'll be gradually lowered until there are none.

    I agree that something needs to be done for the less developed countries, the current situation is totally unacceptable. But I don't think that cutting down subsidies and sugar prices for the small European farm will be a sollution that benifits the poor farmers abroad.

    I believe it's better to support small farms in Europe and abroad and cut down subsidies for the large companies, because it's them who get away with most of the money, both in Europe but especially in less developed countries like Brazil.

    The current situation in Europe is that small traditional farms disappear in favor of big corporations, mainly due to the extremely strict regulations and due to the very low prices. The only way farmers survive are subsidies, it already got that far that the only profit certain farmers get are subsidies because prices are too low. So only a large corporation that can produce a lot and make large investments is able to survive in this situation.

    So what I'm aiming at is indeed cutting down subsidies but this should be coupled to higher and acceptable prices. Maybe the best thing each country should do is putting a (higher) tax on imported food. That way Europe can support its own farmers (because they can compete on price with imported goods), and also the less developed countries can compete with the European imports because local farmers will be able to ask a higher price locally because imported goods are more expensive due to the import tax.

    But right now we're working against eachother instead of together, with the result that the small farmer in Europe AND the less developed countries gets nothing and the large exporting corporations get everything.

  13. For sharing files between Windows and Linux, I created a FAT32 partition, and after that I also discovered Ext2 IFS, a Windows driver for ext2 and ext3 which seems to work very well so far (with it, any Windows application can read/write to ext2 because it sees it as a normal file system). That plus NTFS read access is pretty much all I need.

    I'll try to download a live CD with Gnome the next time I'm at home (where I have no bandwidth cap).

    I've been using something like that too, probably Ext2 IFS, but had some annoying problems with it. In my case linux is on a second HD, not a partition, and each time ext2 IFS mounts the drive when winXP is started. But when I close windows it's not unmounted. So each time I start Linux it tells me that the filesystem hasn't been correctly unmounted x amount of times and thus performs a check on the filesystem which is pretty annoying. Don't know if this also happens when using a partition instead of a separate HD.

  14. I get this error when trying to register:

    Failed sending email :: PHP ::

    DEBUG MODE

    Line : 234

    File : emailer.php

    I suppose you don't have a mail sender configured for PHP. If you want this board to become successful it's probably better to get some real hosting and a domain name. http://www.site5.com is pretty good to get started, very cheap and pretty good quality.

  15. It's an annoying bug that I encounter many times and I keep forgetting the solution, should write it down somewhere :P

    I suppose the context of the problem is a list with links inside.

    to fix it you need to use display:block for the links and display:inline for the li's.

    Dnas's solution will work too but it's always better to avoid CSS hacks. Here's an interesting article about it by the Quircksmode guru PP Koch:

    http://digital-web.com/articles/keep_css_simple/

  16. That website sucks....

    :P:P:o:)

    Hmm, care to share your creations with us so we can verify your knowledge and experitise that makes you think this website sucks?

    Now to give some constructive criticism:

    Layout:

    There's a lot of contrast and darkness going on there, which is generally not a good idea imho. But if you wish to go with black you could make the green a lot lighter. But better would be using white as the dominant background color and black and green as secondary colors imho.

    The fonts for regular text are serif, which I wouldn't recommended for screen, except for large text. You're doing it the other way around though, using sans-serif for titles and headlines and serif for regular text. So maybe switch them or use sans-serif everywhere, it'll make your text a lot more readable.

    Good use of whitespace, I really enjoy reading sites that give text a lot of breathing space, so in that area I see nothing to be improved. But maybe add some extra top and bottom padding to your footer.

    Code:

    Looks fine apart from some minor mistakes:

    Use <h1> for your site's name, not for the page's title. Well, it's not something that has to be done but searchengines always look at h1, so have the most important text in it (which is usually the site's name with a keyword).

    Your CSS code be a little bit lighter, though in this case it doesn't matter much because you don't have a large CSS sheet. If it gets bigger though you should use shorthand properties:

    margin: top right bottom left; (instead of margin-right, margin-left, etc.)

    font: size/line-height fontfamily; (instead of font-family and font-size)

    Also, combine styles that have the same property values like this:

    h6 a:link, h6 a:visited, h6 a:active {color:white}

  17. Did a bit of research on Dreamhost and they I found out that they allow you x amount of CPU time a month. Don't know the exact number but people say that this limit means that it's only possible to use very few of the bandwith you bought.

    So Dreamhost is off my list :P

    btw, site5.com also has some fantastic offers. Again too good to be true imho (definatly overselling), but nothing negative so far.

  18. The difference with Clinton's and Bush's war in Iraq is that Bush invaded it and installed ground troops as opposed to Clinten who bombed it. If you've done some research for your paper on Iraq and Islam you should know that the worst thing a foreign enemy can do is take their land and install foreign troops on it.

    Anyway, no need to discuss theories here imho, the current situation in Afganistan and Iraq is the best argument someone opposing Bush could ever have. There are more deaths, more terrorists and more attacks and we're now with two extremely unstable countries torn apart by civil war which Western soldiers can barely control.

    Also remember why people like Bin Laden's followers do such attacks, why these people attack the Western world instead of for example Brazil or Japan. Our nations have constantly invaded their lands, our nations have always meddled into their affairs. I don't approve their acts, but answering the attacks with yet another invasion is the most counterproductive things that one could ever do, especially when a certain president has to lie against his own people to justify it (WMD, the Saddam-Bin Laden relations). And, even more counterproductive was attacking a nation (Iraq) that was a stabilizing factor in that region, namely a secular state in a region with rising fundamentalism.

    And, last but not least, why is Bush good friends with the Saudi-Arabia? I hope you realise that this country is the largest source of terrorism in the whole region next to Palestine. It's also a nation headed by even more gruesome dictators than Saddam, a country where near-slavery is still being practised on a large scale.

    So I have to agree with Mythos, taking away fundamental rights isn't the answer to terrorism. What should be done is stopping to support criminal nations and dictators, finding a sollution for Israel, getting the Western armies out of there, and putting a little more effort in the UN. But unfortunatly all this has become a lot more difficult than before the first bomb was dropped on Afganistan.

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