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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Modern Art - POST LAYOUT THREAD: Post your Fyxe-ripoff layouts HERE |
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Cirvania Cyball I guess this is as close as Xkeeper will get to spell it right. :<                  Since: 11-17-05 From: The Island of Puerto Rico. Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6314 days |
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| Layout revision 1:
Removed unnecesary td's to the side, removed background circle image, and changed the font back to verdana (I'm just too attached to it, lol) I am aware this now looks like an exact copy of Dani's layout. |
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Silvershield   580   Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Ok, so I threw together this fairly modest layout with emcee's amazing code generator, but I'd appreciate a bit of help in fine-tuning it in ways that I could not work out in the editor proper (because, concerning complex HTML, I am absolutely incompetent). I'll present my concerns in a simple list...
Originally posted by Example 1. The body of text appears to be squished right up against the box borders. How can I insert a bit of separation there? Ditto for the signature, though I would assume the solution would be the same. 2. I would like to change this simple white background in the inner box into a tiled image. (Naturally, it is a very neutral image, so readability will not be an issue.) How can I do that? 3. What can I do about the picture on the left? If you observe my previous layout, you can see that the picture exists in it's own "column," so that text will not appear below it as you can see in this post. How do I fix it? 4. Aesthetically, what are your thoughts? I am colorblind, and the background image looks to me like a fairly unobtrusive shade that resembles maybe bronze or some similar metal, and I'm partial to how it looks, but for all I know a person with normal eyesight will vomit just looking at it. So, point that out if it's a problem. 5. The layout editor offers a great but fairly imprecise method for changing the size of the inner box in relation to the layout as a whole. I can't tell just by looking at my layout whether there is equal space separating each side of the inner box from the outer layout boundaries; how would I find out and fix this? There's probably more that I'm just not bringing up right now, but those are my concerns for the moment. Any more general comments? |
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emcee Red Super Koopa  Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| 1. There should be an option called inside margin on the under miscellaneous, in the content box section.
2. In the style attribute for the last tag in the header, find where it says rgb(255,255,255) and change it to url("location of image"). I considered an option for an image background in the content box, but I thought people would horribly misuse it. 3. This is a bit tougher. There is an option under outside box to put an image in a seperate column along side the text, but it would appear in the padding to the left, rather then with text. So instead you would have to create a new table inside the content box by adding this to the end of the header: <table><tr><td><img src="location of image"></td><td> And this to the start of the signature: </td></tr></table> 4. I kind of liked it better before. The quote boxes seem a little out of place, and the background image looks a little odd. But it still looks decent, and is ok on the eyes. 5. I should probably fix that. The third to last tag in the header says <td width="n%"> and to second tag after your signature text in the signature code says <td width="n%"> the n in your header is the width (as a percent of your layout's width) of your left padding, and the n in the signature the padding width for the right. They both default to 10, before you adjust either slider. Anyway, I feel a little bad since people seem to actually be using this thing, and I said I would make it more usuable, but got kind of distracted. Maybe I'll work on it tonight. |
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Silvershield 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Ok, cool, I'll have a second version of my original idea at some point in the future, then.
Since you mention that you intend to refine the program, might I suggest that you first deal with the menus? Like, the color choice menus, I mean (because I don't know the technical term for them). They seem to open and close and scroll and stuff very erratically, and it gets annoying. Of course, I have no idea how easy or difficult such a change would be as far as programming it, so just take it as the uninformed advice of a neophyte user. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Yeah, I'm aware of the issue with the menus (they don't have a name). It's not so much that they're erractic, they work exactly how I intended them to, but just how I intended them too wasn't a very good way. I have a half way fixed version on my hard drive I just have to get back to it. There are few other part way done adjustments in it as well, including a currently not working save feature. | |||
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Deleted User Banned    Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6314 days |
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| Suggestion for the program: Could you get rid of the useless code that appears with the useful code on the output?
Like: font-size: 100%; text-decoration: None;;font-style: Normal, etc. I think if we're not actually changing anything, then it'd be a more clean code without stuff that would keep the layout the same. (e.g. if the whole layout uses the Verdana font, you don't need to have font-family: Verdana all over the place). (edited by Uly on 10-22-06 05:47 AM) |
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Silvershield 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Ok, I have what I think is a more-or-less final version of what I ultimately want, but there is still one more question.
Originally posted by ExampleThe color scheme is obviously redone, and I feel like this time it is at least more complementary because I found the textures in a location that paired them together intentionally (because I am colorblind and could not trust myself to match up two colors on my own). However, the source also provided an accent image that is to be used to create a border. I would like to use such a border to outline the main box in my layout, but the problem is twofold. 1. First, I was dumb and closed out of the editor proper, and I don't want to go back and re-create the entire thing just so that I am able to use an image instead of a line to outline the box. Which fields could I edit within the header code in order to incorporate that image as a border? 2. The image takes the form of a single square that is intended to be tiled, rather than just a straight line. As I've noticed, the purpose is to create a single large box with this border image, and then inset it with a box of smaller dimensions that uses the actual background color, so that only the edges of the border image peek out on the sides and create the illusion of just a straight border. How can I translate this concern into something that can be used in my layout? If you don't quite get my explanation, let me know and I'll try to draw it out. |
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Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6314 days |
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I think I know what you are talking about, and I think you just need to have a table with the border as background and then inside of it another smaller table in where you have the post's background.
Originally posted by Uly That was cousing everyone else's blockquote to be messed up, but it has been fixed (So if you were blocking my layout for that reason, you can unblock it now, unless you're using IE - Thanks to Pac for pointing that out). Though, codewise, I think I wouldn't be able to help, sorry  |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| What you would need to do is something like this:
At the end of your header (where u is the location of the border image, and n is the thickness of the border): <table><tr style="background:url(u);padding:n"><td> And at the start of your signature: </td></tr></table> Atleast I think that should work. |
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Silvershield 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6326 days Last view: 6313 days |
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The advice is appreciated, of course, but...just posting so you can see what that code does.  |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Oh, sorry, I didn't think that one completely through.
Instead of putting the signature part at the beginning the code put it just after </span>, also, just after the code you add, put a </td>, (that's supposed to be there, but I accidently left it out of the code generated by the layout maker) Then, instead of the other code I said to put at the end of the header, put this (where u2 is the location of the background image of the text box, and where p is the amount of padding you want between the inside of the text box and your text): <table style="padding:0;margin:0;"><tr style="background:url(u);padding:n"><td style="background:url(u2);padding:p"> Then go to the last tag in the header (not counting the ones you added) find the style attribute, and remove background:url(n);, and padding:n; (Where n is whatever happens to be there). Hopefully all that make sense. |
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Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6314 days |
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| I think that I like what I came up with.
Edit: something went wrong. (edited by i_forget on 10-23-06 08:41 PM) (edited by setz on 11-01-06 10:40 PM) |
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| You are missing a < (edited by Uly on 10-24-06 09:31 PM) (edited by setz on 11-01-06 10:41 PM) |
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Luigi-San Ptooie ZOMG Wii is teh pwn Since: 11-18-05 From: The Mushroom Kingdom a.k.a Buffalo, NY Wii: Yes Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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Time to show off my new SMK-themed layout!
Originally posted by me Sample Link |
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Simon Belmont Except I'm totally fucking hyped about Dracula X: Chronicles.  Since: 11-18-05 From: Pittsburgh Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| [22:41:58] <setz> so I check the post layout thread
[22:42:03] <setz> idiot broke the tables [22:42:09] <setz> so uly instead of contacting a mod [22:42:13] <setz> puts a </table> in his header [22:42:20] * setz grumbles |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6313 days |
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Originally posted by King Booigi-San By default the images along around the main text box will tile both vertically and horizontally, unless you pick one of the options under "fill". So when you make a long post it will tile the sky and ground over and over on each side of it. Instead you should have the part where the ground meets the sky in the bottom image and set that to stretch, then just have sky in the top left and right images, and set those to tile. Unless you left the page open you'll have to start over to do this, since I don't see your layout in the save folder. So, if you remake it you should probably save it. |
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Luigi-San Ptooie ZOMG Wii is teh pwn Since: 11-18-05 From: The Mushroom Kingdom a.k.a Buffalo, NY Wii: Yes Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| Thanks for that note, emcee. I've fixed that. | |||
Peardian N-Z KvSG #193 is up!  Since: 11-17-05 From: Pearl Island Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| Well, until I'm able to edit my profile again, here's my new layout I'm going to use.
There. (edited by Peardian on 11-13-06 05:29 PM) |
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BooUrns Buster Beetle  Since: 05-07-06 From: The CS Last post: 6315 days Last view: 6315 days |
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| New layout (my first non-default layout).
I'm not quite happy with the background image, but I couldn't find anything better. I'm looking for a somewhat generic texture that doesn't look like any specific thing. If you hate it, tell me and I'll change it. EDIT: Christmas layout. (edited by BooUrns on 12-07-06 06:54 PM) |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6314 days Last view: 6314 days |
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Some people moaned when my layout when Christmas Mode, but never bothered to explain just what they didn't like about it. I figured I'd take a guess and fix some things I thought could stand to be better.
I need to darken the link borders and title bars to match the new colours, but before I do that I want to know what people think so far. I fear it may be too dark. (edited by HyperHacker on 12-07-06 06:05 PM) |
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