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Post May 17th, 2004, 9:38 pm

It's funny and ironic that it was actually easier to make the website database driven and get it up and running than it was to build the original english version from the japanese edition. Bad code = longer working hours. Databases make life beautiful. :)
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Post May 17th, 2004, 9:38 pm

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Post May 18th, 2004, 3:18 pm

It's really nice and I like all the effects scattered around it. I'm not actually gonna buy anything (:P Fast food for me) but I would suggest one thing that would make it look better. A scroll bar. I just think it looks a bit plain without a colored scroll bar which is always a nice touch to just about any site. Other than that, you did a great job!
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Post May 18th, 2004, 6:18 pm

Yeah, I agree, a red and white scrollbar would give it more of a uniform look. I'll see what I can do. I hadn't even thought about that as I usually never mess with scrollbars since only IE6 actually knows what to do with the css behind it. Do any other browsers support colored scrollbars?
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Post May 19th, 2004, 1:04 pm

I like the site name and colors. Just nice and appropriate.
maybe a few touch up here n there. :-)
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Post May 26th, 2004, 11:22 pm

rtm223 wrote:
ok it doesn't work because you cannot control the heights of the spans properly. I fiddled about for about half an hour and it works ok-ish in firefox, if you have less than seven lines of text - after that the text just dissapears for no good reason.

The only way I can see to make it work is to have each row in a paragraph or other block level element, and inside the paragraph you would have two spans (is this sounding anthing like table markup yet?).

The left hand span would then be floated left. The righthand span would have to have a margin => the width of the left span, incase the right span had more lines of text in it.

You would then lose the block red bit ( in IE at least, you can force mozilla to do it), and you have used far more coding than is neccesary. I therefore retract my previous wrist slapping.

What I was thinking of is a technique to put labels next to form elements so they align either side of a central line:

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  ---- | #####
  ----- | ######
   --- | ####
  1.   ---- | #####
  2.   ----- | ######
  3.    --- | ####


although the line is invisible. The technique is not transferable to this situation though. Don't I feel oh-so-silly now.....


Hey rtm, I was just reading up on definition lists and that might be the way to go for this sort of thing. Check out: http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/definition/
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Post May 26th, 2004, 11:29 pm

ooooooh, I've heard of them before but never really knew what they were :D

plus it still gives you the accessibility, because there is a definate differentiation in the html.....

Fantastico :)

Although I doubt they would be able to get the colours to extend the full length, on both columns, regardles of contents. It's worth a try tho.
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Post May 27th, 2004, 12:10 am

Actually, it works quite well. You just have to float the dt to the right and give them all a width wider than the largest text in any dt. Looks just like a table.

You've got to mess with margins and whatnot to get things to line up correctly, but looks like a table to me and works better than tables in my cellphone!

My japanese cellphone has limited css support, but it really screws up anytime a table is thrown into the equation, so this might come into great use down the line!
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Post May 27th, 2004, 12:37 am

Check this out: http://www.gsv2.com/test

This has excellent applicable use in a photo gallery or products page. No matter the size of the monitor, dl's will fit to the width without screwing up layouts the way tables do. Pretty groovy.
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Post May 27th, 2004, 12:51 am

gsv2com wrote:
Check this out: http://www.gsv2.com/test

This has excellent applicable use in a photo gallery or products page. No matter the size of the monitor, dl's will fit to the width without screwing up layouts the way tables do. Pretty groovy.


Verry groovy. So groovy it gets two r's apparently :?

How do they come out on a cellphone, or text/aural browser? Does it just come up as the DT and DD things? To handily split them up into title and desciption when unstyled.
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Post May 27th, 2004, 12:56 am

It shows up BEAUTIFULLY in cellphone. Since mine has limited css support, it shows up the same way it'd look in an internet browser if you resized it to the width of one box. AWESOME!

verrry grrroovy! (triple r's)
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Post May 6th, 2008, 9:22 pm

i cant get it to come up so that i can see it it takes me to some dating site or something

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