We are now standards compliant

[Shockwave]

There was a plethora of bugs on the new front page, all in all over 120 errors, this would probably explain why it looked broken on some browsers.

Please go to the front page and do a CTRL+F5 refresh to make sure that you have the most up-to-date style sheet in your browser (especially gay Internet Explorer).

There are no bugs in the front page any more so it should look less broken!

I will be adding more content to the front page this weekend

[padman]

Yay! >>The Designed For Mozilla Firefox<< 404 is still there though...   

[Shockwave]

Oops!

The devil is in the detail eh?
That's fixed now

[padman]

Thank you! 

[benny!]

Awesome work that the new frontpage is now standards compliant. I really could assume that this can be a grueling bit of work. K++ !

Concerning the frontpage I have the following suggestions:

- When we have an additional menu item (e.g. link to the showcase) I would put the Terms Of Use link somewhere in the footer

- I would center the "Page Downloaded text..." text

- Shoutbox functionality:
I like the random shouts the shoutbox generates. But wouldnt it be more userfriendly when someone clicks into the input field that the text disappears ? If you agree you would just need to do something like this:

Old code:

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<input type="text" size="50%" maxlength="200" name="shoutout" class="shoutbox" value="Clyde was here.">


New code:

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<input type="text" size="50%" maxlength="200" name="shoutout" class="shoutbox" value="Clyde was here."
onfocus="window.initialShoutboxText=this.value; this.value='';" onblur="if ( this.value=='' ) this.value=window.initialShoutboxText;"/>


- Maybe we could add a simple hover effect for the showcase items, e.g.

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div.showcaseBox:hover
{
background-color: #1C1C1C;
}


Well, as I said, just some suggestions ... I wouldn't mind if it stays the way it is ;-)

Best,
benny!

[Shockwave]

I'd be stupid to ignore your advice

I'm making a few changes to the code at the moment.
Also has anyone tried submitting a shout without any text in the shoutbox?

[padman]

Yup, just did. 

[Shockwave]

There are several different random messages.

Btw, if you do a CTRL+F5 refresh on the front page I've put a few fixes in as suggested by benny.  Also I've made the font a tiny bit smaller as was suggested by Raizor I think.

[benny!]

Uhh ... that was fast. Works really great.

[benny!]

New content of the frontpage is really great.

The About text is extremely well written and I do 100%ly agree with the A Scene Community Based On Respect! paragraph!

!!!

[Shockwave]

And it's stuffed full of SEO

[benny!]

And it's stuffed full of SEO

Yeah