Choose the AGS Website of the future!

Pumaman · Sat 24/04/2004 18:21:50

strazer has kindly suggested an amendment to the top banner to tile the montage at high resolutions. Here's a demo:
http://www.strazer.net/ags/website01.htm

Do you guys have any opinions on going that way?

InCreator: good point, I'll add something about that. As for scripts and tech issues - the Beginner's Tech FAQ should cover that.

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 24/04/2004 18:41:34

Not really keen on how it repeats at a high resolution :/

Vel · Sat 24/04/2004 18:44:40

Whats up with that rotating banners thingy at the boards?

strazer · Sat 24/04/2004 18:49:03

QuoteNot really keen on how it repeats at a high resolution :/

Well, that's the whole idea.
It's just a matter of how wide you create the montage. It's better than the blue gap in the middle IMO.
In the demo I've used an old crappy version of the current montage that is not really optimized for tiling.

Ginny · Sat 24/04/2004 18:51:01

Hmm, but then again, why tile it? wouldn't it be better to use this empty blue space to include a few more games in the montage? The overall design looks great, though!

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 24/04/2004 18:52:53

yeh, why can't those with a higher resolution get more games eh?

and blue happens to be my favourite colour, so i have no problems with it.

strazer · Sat 24/04/2004 18:53:01

Entirely possible. As I said, it's a matter of how wide you create the montage.
This way there would be more games visible in higher resolutions but it still works in lower resolutions.

EDIT
Here's a demo with a quick & dirty combination of the montages posted in this thread: http://www.strazer.net/ags/website02.htm

Privateer Puddin' · Sat 24/04/2004 18:56:27

Quote from: strazer on Sat 24/04/2004 18:49:03
QuoteNot really keen on how it repeats at a high resolution :/

Well, that's the whole idea.

Yeh i know. What i meant (and i should have explained it better) is that its visible where one starts and where one begins whereas it fades into the Adventure Game Studio bit

Ginny · Sat 24/04/2004 20:44:38

Yes, I have nothing against the colour either, blue is great! However the space could be used for more games in the same size of banner. Or, just reduce the banner size a bit..

I'm in 800X600 resolution, and the banner fits in perfectly.

strazer · Sat 24/04/2004 20:51:13

Check out the 2nd demo. To me it looks awesome in both 800x600 and 1024x768.

Ben · Sun 25/04/2004 01:40:00

I like it

. With a large enough banner, it looks great. But what about compatability? Are there any current, commonly used browsers that don't support alpha-blended PNGs?

strazer · Sun 25/04/2004 04:23:16

Internet Explorer doesn't support them natively, so that required a workaround. Should be working with IE 5.5 and up.

I have tested it with Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla Firefox 0.8. I've read Opera has full PNG support too, so there should be no problems either.

strazer · Mon 26/04/2004 12:52:11

Ok, so no tiling then?
In that case, just add "background-repeat:no-repeat;" to the STYLE attribute.

Now, with this method, if the montages are at least 700 pixels wide, it would look great for both 800x600 and 1024x768+.
I actually like that better than the tiling.

Any opinions?