Ive moved to daveking.com.au!

Delaney King

Since we are waving goodbye to the cottages, I grabbed a CGhosting pack and have now settled in over at www.daveking.com.au - expect a fresh overhaul and completely new art and tutes soon

milla

Sweet! Nice to see signs of life Dave

Mister Sentient

Excellent, your highness. Looking forward to the overhaul.

Delaney King

Overhaul begun... Added two new images of some goblin and seawitch action. I have some muuuch better stuff coming along.

Eric Chadwick

Cool to see!

My Firefox popup blocker blocks some of the gallery images but not all. The 5th, 6th, 7th ones evade the popup blocker. Looks like some inconsistent popup code.

Xenobond

Silly me. I thought the .au suffix had been for Austria. ohnoes. The sea witch is looking quite nice for how far along it is.

hawken

ew. Layout with tables.

btw tables "align=top,middle,bottom" has been removed from standard html markup, meaning you orc appears half way down the page in safari and other standard compliant browsers.

Your menu is a bizarre width="53%" meaning the whole thing bunches up. You site is told to be width="1074" "0" height="1111", this is just asking for trouble.

although this is not for crits, you should think about re-designing using style sheets if you have some time. Tables are slowly becoming more dangerous for layout as browsers update to todays standards, and making the whole thing in dreamweaver layout view will only lead to pain in the long run.

This is how it looks on my browser:
http://www.dadako.com/forums/daveking.jpg

Eric Chadwick

hawken, what happens if someone turns off the page style? How do you keep cell/row formatting if it's all in the CSS? Or just screwn 'em? I guess I need to learn more about accessibility, since that's what I'm wondering about.

hawken

if someone uses thier own style sheet for browsing the internet they are probably hard of sight. It's a very low percentage, not many people know of that function.

a well designed site will parse well without any style sheet at all, if properly laid out in a linear manner. Even down to mobile devices in some cases!

also there is no cell or row formatting to worry about with divs / spans etc. Tables are good for data like statistics. Writing HTML was never really designed with any sort of design layout devices in mind until CSS came along, it really is the saviour of layout on the web.

why does this forum say "Instant Graemlins"?

Eric Chadwick

OK, sorry for taking us OT. Thanks hawken, I'm learning CSS these days, this is good info.

Rick Stirling

Everything Hawken said, I have to agree with 100%

Recently I got involved with a site and tried valiantly to get them to switch from tables and embedded fonts, but to no avail, even when I showed that their current MENU repeatedly embedded on every page was taking 108K of space on its own, and my identical version took under 1k and was laoded once.

Anyway...

Dave, link updated : http://www.rsart.co.uk/?page_id=8

okkun

Very cool, can't wait to see the updates.

CheapAlert

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why does this forum say "Instant Graemlins"?

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Because UBBthreads is derived from the old wwwthreads software from the mid 90s, so net terminologies were quite early