General site updates, TODO list and discussion

pimathbrainiac · November 21, 2014, 12:33:58 PM

Okay. Will do.

novenary · November 21, 2014, 09:58:58 PM

Shouldn't rule #3 say "cheating on tests and exams" ? Cheating in games is perfectly fine as long as it's not an online game, and it should be made clear that what we mean is school stuff.
Also, "advice" never takes an S.

Dream of Omnimaga · November 22, 2014, 12:08:31 AM

Ah right, I'll have to check that out. It's definitively a rule against cheating.

Heck, even the third-party HP Prime bootloader (if it happens) will block ASM/C if the exam mode is enabled, in order to stay on HP good side.

That said, cheating can also include online tests, like that Free Prizm contest thing a while ago or when people want to cheat to get money for free or something.

EDIT: Ok, so for the custom site navigation, my idea was to use a floating bar at the top like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and TI-Planet. However, what color do you think it should be? Should there also be a bottom border and some sort of differently-colored line below the text?

Keoni29 · November 22, 2014, 09:30:42 AM

I just noticed this website has a very similar color scheme to one of mine http://ez8tut.sourceforge.net

I got one of those floating bars. Feel free to use this page as source of inspiration.

Dream of Omnimaga · November 22, 2014, 09:34:33 AM

Ah right, that site used green too (nice design btw!). I thought it was blue since I had 8times8 in my head

Dream of Omnimaga · November 22, 2014, 05:17:37 PM

Smileys have been replaced. Most are from the 2005-06 and 2010-11 Omnimaga backups as well as SMF 1.1, and only one is from after I retired from admin (

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I also added a Monthly top poster block on the front page.

novenary · November 22, 2014, 09:23:00 PM

Nice updates DJ. And yes I meant cheating when it can get you in trouble more than just at school (so online games because that sucks and also illegal things).

Dream of Omnimaga · November 23, 2014, 07:21:53 AM

Thanks and yeah I guess it can include games, although it depends. Game Genie codes sharing and stuff would be fine, but not asking how to hack in online multiplayer games in order to gain an unfair advantage on your opponent.

novenary · November 23, 2014, 12:17:42 PM

Yeah lol that's exactly what I meant.

Dream of Omnimaga · November 23, 2014, 10:40:10 PM

I also edited the buttons again. The others were too green. However I need to fix the inner borders.

novenary · November 23, 2014, 11:00:46 PM

Ah it's much better like that. Before you fixed them it looked really weird.

Dream of Omnimaga · November 24, 2014, 05:17:33 AM

Indeed. I initially wanted to see how buttons like this would work and this was the first color scheme I came up with. Then I had to go to work >.<

Now to move the main site navigation below the logo...

Dream of Omnimaga · November 25, 2014, 03:50:58 AM

So now I finally made the navigation and search so that they float at the top of the page, like Twitter, TI-Planet and Facebook. However, I never figured out how to properly insert the Welcome Username/Guest+Login/Register boxes there, so that will have to do for now. Stupid Z-indexes and overlapping on small resolutions x.x

I'll need to edit the links now, but apparently in SMF 2 that requires editing the Sources files. That could cause problems during upgrades, but if we ever need multiple themes this would make it so we only have 1 file to edit.

Yuki · November 25, 2014, 01:21:35 PM

That navbar at the top looks pretty cool.

pimathbrainiac · November 25, 2014, 01:57:19 PM

oIRC fixed by someone. That's a thing now.