View Poll Results: Which design do you prefer? | |||
Bonn's | 0 | 0% | |
dmegatool's first | 0 | 0% | |
dmegatool's second | 4 | 30.77% | |
Brad's | 9 | 69.23% | |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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So I need a favor: If you navigate to mc.applenova.com you see a plain text saying nothing here. How about a basic page with a creeper or other such MineCraft like theme to it. Maybe a link to AN, directions to do basics via links etc.
Anyone want to throw something together that's very basic (ie, no flash) so it won't impact server performance but give a nicer landing if someone decides to manually navigate to it via browser? Maybe we could make it a contest of some sort too! Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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¡Damned!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Purgatory
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Maybe just a pic of the AppleNova sign would do. Kinda says it all....
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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709: I like the AN sign/name idea actually! So who want's to code it? I'm not a coder.
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Turtle, if you'd like I'll try my hand. Just a simple (yet pretty) HTML page with a nice image and links to tutorials, Minecraft.net, Applenova, and maybe even a small gallery of images pulled from the server shouldn't be too difficult! (and will further justify my purchasing Coda :P)
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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By all means, I'll take anything I can get. I was going to just get a big creeper png and throw it up. Something useful would be better.
I'm ok with images being local to the server, the heart behind it is that it doesn't suck up resources that should be given to the game. Thus the no flash declaration. Use CSS and whatever else you'd like but remember: basic in technology. Rich in detail if you'd like. . I just want something worthy of AN's name. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Would the community be interested with a small section listing all the active player's AN names, Minecraft names, and a small portrait of their Minecraft character in whatever skin they tend to use? I think that'd be pretty cool, although obviously more work to keep up with as people change their skins.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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It would be interesting, but I don't think the extra work would be worth it. I'm not even sure it's a good idea to have it directly list user names. Maybe something about it being a whitelisted server and how to request access through AN/link, but that's about all I think would be good.
It could be cool to see who was active on the server "live" but not sure how that could be done. Plus, now we are really getting away from a good basic landing page. It does sound very interesting though! Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Agreed. Let's keep the page as basic HTML. Dynamically generating pages in PHP/Python/Java/etc. all have the potential to sap resources away from what's important.
I might throw a version in for consideration if I can pull myself away from just playing the game in my spare time. The quality of this board depends on the quality of the posts. The only way to guarantee thoughtful, informative discussion is to write thoughtful, informative posts. AppleNova is not a real-time chat forum. You have time to compose messages and edit them before and after posting. |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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On that note, here's an idea. Any of us interested in making a page should make one by next weekend, post a link (or screenshot if you don't have hosting) in this thread, and we'll vote on it. Yay or nay?
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Sounds like a great idea to me!
Here's what I whipped up in the last hour or so. I made sure to incorporate the forum's color scheme into the whole thing. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/412263/novacraft/index.html Lemme know what you think! admin edit: screenshot! |
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Great idea Brad!
It's official then. A poll will be opened to chose which submitted page will be the index.html for the server. Basic limitations: Static content only. I don't want to say HTML only, but I don't code so we'll go with static content only. You can include an images folder for the server as long as the images are very small in footprint. Links out side of the game server are preferred since it takes more load off of the game server. The goal is something better than what's there now but fitting for AppleNova. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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I did a quick design for you fellows, even if I don't play or intend to play Minecraft. I ditched the Applenova sign for an hollywood font to make it cleaner. Could use a regular font... with the image removed, it doesn't make that much sense now. Anyway, I haven't done the html/css file. I'll do so only if I win
Thanks to Bonn89 for the text, I pretty much just copied it... But I'm giving you the credits so it's ok Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Oooh, that looks MUCH better than mine!
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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Nice entry! Thanks for giving us another option.
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Can we do multiple entries or is it like the photo challenge thread ?
I had a couple a minutes laying around and was about to tweak my submitted design... I ended with a second one. Same stuff, different presentation. Dave Mustaine :"God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo." |
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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I haven't even signed up for MC yet and I like the 2nd one better. Thematically on the money.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I do like the second one better too! It really does fit the game more I think.
Anyone else gonna take their chance at getting picked? |
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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What can fit more the game than a Creeper face ?
I changed the typo on the first one. The hollywood thing didn't make any sense without the picture. So it's pixelated font for all ! Last edited by dmegatool : 2011-04-14 at 00:09. |
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Custom User Title
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Pretty quiet on the submissions front
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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I have one in mind but haven't taken the time to hash it out. Tonight!
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I'm looking forward to seeing what's out there for this simple task. Surely more want to submit an option?
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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I really don't think I could do better than dmegatool's second. I would change the link in the second paragraph to be "this thread" rather than "GamingNova subforum," but that'd be about it. I like the blocks
and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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Selfish Heathen
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
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Finally! My submission:
I wrote this as an HTML page, but I haven't ported the Webkit-specific CSS bits (gradient, drop-shadow) to work in Firefox and the markup is a little ugly at the moment. So, all you get is an image for now. I specifically worded the opening text here to reflect that anyone accessing the page must have gotten there by mistake since the web page itself isn't advertised in links anywhere. The only way someone could get to it would be by reading one of our Minecraft threads or by word of mouth (which you must admit is unlikely). I themed it very closely to the standard AppleNova Pro theme since the page lives just off the main applenova.com domain like the forums. I kinda threw it together in a rush tonight, but overall I'm satisfied with the general appearance. I'd like to add another narrow frame to both sides of the embedded image, but I didn't have time to trek out to the other locations I had in mind. Off-topic (click to toggle):
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Plus, when someone new logs into Minecraft, they're going to see stock textures the first time, so they COULD be confused as to why Minecraft doesn't look as beautiful as it does with your textures.. Spoiler (click to toggle):
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: At home
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Rocket Surgeon
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: The Canadark
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Trying to name the locations in Brads screenshots: l-r: mob trap, the sphere, Bridgeport. They're easy. Next one is...??? Last one I think is the exchange. With someone in it - I'm guessing it's me if the screenshots were taken last night but the armor means it could be one of several people.
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Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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SpecMode's house on mob hill I think.
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Formerly Roboman, still
awesome Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Portland, OR
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But I think you can see a tiny sliver of the garden where my house will be on the edge of his Bridgeport screen! I want to make a difference.
Also, I'm never going to not vote for Minecraft speedholes. And it does nicely match the rest of the site. I am all about the matchy matchy. and i guess i've known it all along / the truth is, you have to be soft to be strong |
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