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CoNniversary XV Site Tweaks

2012-06-07T17:48:51Z

Tiddles:

= Critical tasks still required BEFORE launch =
* Prepare new blurb for info/index.php
* Prepare Skyglade theme choice blurb (/layout/Skyglade/info.php, can be previewed at /layout/Skyglade/)
* Fix FF6 XMLnav, and any other outstanding Skyglade issues

= Things we really SHOULD do before launch =
* Convert other skins to XMLnav
* Front page changes prep (spotlights, "Connect with CoN", more visible chat/poll?)
* Game front page change prep (spotlights?)

= On the day =
== Content changes ==
* Update info/index.php with new blurb
* Upload new link buttons and update /affiliates.php to reference them (including sample code to copy)
* Upload new ad banners - these should be saved as static images and the adserver config should be changed to reference them. We do NOT want these uploaded into MySQL.
* Update all game front page image files with new typography
* Update all wallpaper files with new typography
* Make any changes we get done for the front page
* Make any changes we get done for game front pages

== Enabling Skyglade ==
* In vars.php, change
<tt>$SKIN_DEFAULT = "Skyglade";</tt>
* In /style.php, add to the top of the table, above Persona's entry:
<tt><?php include $GLOBALS['BASE_PATH'] . '/' . $GLOBALS['LAYOUTS_DIR'] . '/' . $GLOBALS['SKIN']['Skyglade'] . '/info.php' ?></tt>
* We don't really have any way to force people onto Skyglade unless we change the cookie name, which would be difficult as it's hardcoded in a lot of places I think.

== Anniversary Theme Changes ==
For the fifteenth birthday, along with releasing Skyglade, all skins will temporarily get the special XV logo in place of their normal logos in the skin and also in the welcome-back messaging. These are the tweaks that need to be applied and later removed to make this happen. Perhaps we want to make this a flag in Common that then includes some new CSS for each skin, I'm not sure yet.

=== Skyglade ===
'''These changes are commented out on CoN as of this writing'''
* New files called "sitelogo-skyline-15.png" and "bwlogolarge-15.png" are in the skin folder. This can be safely removed later.
* Two chunks of skyglade.css were edited to allow the wider anniversary logo. These are at lines 151 and 690 as of this writing, and the old values are commented out for easy retention.
* Because Tiddles is neat-o, we don't have to screw with the forums separately.

=== Arch ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* Added a file called "logo-15.png" to be used in the top right corner of all Arches on the main site.
* Changed CSS to account for wider logo at line 1 and line 17 in arch-modern.css, #archlogo and #sitetitle.
* Added three files for the site logo: "sitelogo-15.png", "sitelogo_blue-15.png", "sitelogo_bright-15.png". These files are referenced in arch-default.css, styles/arch-blue.css, and styles/arch-bright.css.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "7" and "8" folders in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. These files for Arch are _12, _13, _14.

=== Persona ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "2" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _10. Three IDs need to be changed: #logostrip, #sitelogo, and #sectiontitle. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Persona-Modern gets a new topbar logo, named topbarlogo-15.gif. persona.css changes at line 195.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Persona, and line 1 in persona.css changed to use it.

=== Scanner ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named bannerlogo-15.png in the "6" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _15. The change is made to div.titlesprite on line 272, similar to the next bullet. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Set up a new logo for Scanner-Modern, because the GIF was too hard to manage in general with the new pieces. The CoNniversary logo is bannerlogo-15.png and is set up in layout/Scanner/modern.css line 79.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Scanner, and line 1 in con3.css changed to use it.

=== Digi ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Digi, and line 1 in digi.css changed to use it.
* The skin and the forum skin do not need changes as Digi does not have a "Modern" variant, as it does not carry the stock CoN branding.

=== Aluminum ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Aluminum, and line 8 in con4.css changed to use it.
* A new logo for the modern skin, called "logo-15.png" is in layout/Aluminum, and con4.css was changed to use it in the #logofg element.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "3" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This was css_11.css.
* Update the database for this CSS to use the cached version after making the change!

[[Category:CoNniversary XV]]

CoNniversary XV Site Tweaks

2012-06-07T17:45:09Z

Tiddles:

= Critical tasks still required BEFORE launch =
* Prepare new blurb for info/index.php
* Prepare Skyglade theme choice blurb (/layout/Skyglade/info.php, can be previewed at /layout/Skyglade/)
* Fix FF6 XMLnav, and any other outstanding Skyglade issues

= Things we really SHOULD do before launch =
* Convert other skins to XMLnav
* Front page changes prep (spotlights, "Connect with CoN", more visible chat/poll?)
* Game front page change prep (spotlights?)

= On the day =
== Content changes ==
* Update info/index.php with new blurb
* Upload new link buttons and update /affiliates.php to reference them (including sample code to copy)
* Upload new ad banners - these should be saved as static images and the adserver config should be changed to reference them. We do NOT want these uploaded into MySQL.
* Update all game front page image files with new typography
* Update all wallpaper files with new typography
* Make any changes we get done for the front page
* Make any changes we get done for game front pages

== Enabling Skyglade ==
* In vars.php, change $SKIN_DEFAULT = "Skyglade";
* In /style.php, add to the top of the table, above Persona's entry: <?php include $GLOBALS['BASE_PATH'] . '/' . $GLOBALS['LAYOUTS_DIR'] . '/' . $GLOBALS['SKIN']['Skyglade'] . '/info.php' ?>

== Anniversary Theme Changes ==
For the fifteenth birthday, along with releasing Skyglade, all skins will temporarily get the special XV logo in place of their normal logos in the skin and also in the welcome-back messaging. These are the tweaks that need to be applied and later removed to make this happen. Perhaps we want to make this a flag in Common that then includes some new CSS for each skin, I'm not sure yet.

=== Skyglade ===
'''These changes are commented out on CoN as of this writing'''
* New files called "sitelogo-skyline-15.png" and "bwlogolarge-15.png" are in the skin folder. This can be safely removed later.
* Two chunks of skyglade.css were edited to allow the wider anniversary logo. These are at lines 151 and 690 as of this writing, and the old values are commented out for easy retention.
* Because Tiddles is neat-o, we don't have to screw with the forums separately.

=== Arch ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* Added a file called "logo-15.png" to be used in the top right corner of all Arches on the main site.
* Changed CSS to account for wider logo at line 1 and line 17 in arch-modern.css, #archlogo and #sitetitle.
* Added three files for the site logo: "sitelogo-15.png", "sitelogo_blue-15.png", "sitelogo_bright-15.png". These files are referenced in arch-default.css, styles/arch-blue.css, and styles/arch-bright.css.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "7" and "8" folders in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. These files for Arch are _12, _13, _14.

=== Persona ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "2" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _10. Three IDs need to be changed: #logostrip, #sitelogo, and #sectiontitle. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Persona-Modern gets a new topbar logo, named topbarlogo-15.gif. persona.css changes at line 195.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Persona, and line 1 in persona.css changed to use it.

=== Scanner ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named bannerlogo-15.png in the "6" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _15. The change is made to div.titlesprite on line 272, similar to the next bullet. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Set up a new logo for Scanner-Modern, because the GIF was too hard to manage in general with the new pieces. The CoNniversary logo is bannerlogo-15.png and is set up in layout/Scanner/modern.css line 79.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Scanner, and line 1 in con3.css changed to use it.

=== Digi ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Digi, and line 1 in digi.css changed to use it.
* The skin and the forum skin do not need changes as Digi does not have a "Modern" variant, as it does not carry the stock CoN branding.

=== Aluminum ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Aluminum, and line 8 in con4.css changed to use it.
* A new logo for the modern skin, called "logo-15.png" is in layout/Aluminum, and con4.css was changed to use it in the #logofg element.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "3" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This was css_11.css.
* Update the database for this CSS to use the cached version after making the change!

[[Category:CoNniversary XV]]

CoNniversary XV Site Tweaks

2012-06-07T17:41:35Z

Tiddles:

= Critical tasks still required BEFORE launch =
* Prepare new blurb for info/index.php
* Fix FF6 XMLnav, and any other outstanding Skyglade issues

= Things we really SHOULD do before launch =
* Convert other skins to XMLnav
* Front page changes prep (spotlights, "Connect with CoN", more visible chat/poll?)
* Game front page change prep (spotlights?)

= On the day =
== Content changes ==
* Update info/index.php with new blurb
* Upload new link buttons and update /affiliates.php to reference them (including sample code to copy)
* Upload new ad banners - these should be saved as static images and the adserver config should be changed to reference them. We do NOT want these uploaded into MySQL.
* Update all game front page image files with new typography
* Update all wallpaper files with new typography
* Make any changes we get done for the front page
* Make any changes we get done for game front pages

== Enabling Skyglade ==
In vars.php, change $SKIN_DEFAULT = "Skyglade";

== Anniversary Theme Changes ==
For the fifteenth birthday, along with releasing Skyglade, all skins will temporarily get the special XV logo in place of their normal logos in the skin and also in the welcome-back messaging. These are the tweaks that need to be applied and later removed to make this happen. Perhaps we want to make this a flag in Common that then includes some new CSS for each skin, I'm not sure yet.

=== Skyglade ===
'''These changes are commented out on CoN as of this writing'''
* New files called "sitelogo-skyline-15.png" and "bwlogolarge-15.png" are in the skin folder. This can be safely removed later.
* Two chunks of skyglade.css were edited to allow the wider anniversary logo. These are at lines 151 and 690 as of this writing, and the old values are commented out for easy retention.
* Because Tiddles is neat-o, we don't have to screw with the forums separately.

=== Arch ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* Added a file called "logo-15.png" to be used in the top right corner of all Arches on the main site.
* Changed CSS to account for wider logo at line 1 and line 17 in arch-modern.css, #archlogo and #sitetitle.
* Added three files for the site logo: "sitelogo-15.png", "sitelogo_blue-15.png", "sitelogo_bright-15.png". These files are referenced in arch-default.css, styles/arch-blue.css, and styles/arch-bright.css.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "7" and "8" folders in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. These files for Arch are _12, _13, _14.

=== Persona ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "2" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _10. Three IDs need to be changed: #logostrip, #sitelogo, and #sectiontitle. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Persona-Modern gets a new topbar logo, named topbarlogo-15.gif. persona.css changes at line 195.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Persona, and line 1 in persona.css changed to use it.

=== Scanner ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The forums got a new logo, named bannerlogo-15.png in the "6" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This file is _15. The change is made to div.titlesprite on line 272, similar to the next bullet. Make sure that the database matches the cache after these changes.
* Set up a new logo for Scanner-Modern, because the GIF was too hard to manage in general with the new pieces. The CoNniversary logo is bannerlogo-15.png and is set up in layout/Scanner/modern.css line 79.
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Scanner, and line 1 in con3.css changed to use it.

=== Digi ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Digi, and line 1 in digi.css changed to use it.
* The skin and the forum skin do not need changes as Digi does not have a "Modern" variant, as it does not carry the stock CoN branding.

=== Aluminum ===
'''These changes are only on Grave'''
* The new sitelogo, sitelogo-15.png was added to layout/Aluminum, and line 8 in con4.css changed to use it.
* A new logo for the modern skin, called "logo-15.png" is in layout/Aluminum, and con4.css was changed to use it in the #logofg element.
* The forums got a new logo, named logo-15.png in the "3" folder in style-images.
* CSS files in the cache folder were updated to use the new logo. This was css_11.css.
* Update the database for this CSS to use the cached version after making the change!

[[Category:CoNniversary XV]]

Skyglade Site Skin Bugs

2012-04-22T15:36:15Z

Tiddles: /* General Markup */

I'm having trouble processing all the bugs in the site skin using Bugzilla, so I'm going to try moving them in here so I can have better luck trying to track them. If there are things that have previously been fixed, I'm leaving them in the bug ( http://developer.cavesofnarshe.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288 ).

= Themes =
* <del>Also, as discussed earlier: Zenan has no fill/spectrum in its dropdowns, and its sidebar should probably be warmer like the table cells.</del>
* <del>Popups now work, but they're not inheriting the styles correctly. I think I'm missing top minimal, will need to look into that to verify.</del> '''Pending more testing, of course'''
** We should probably follow the Arch model of putting the basic headers in a file that both top and topminimal include.
* On some subthemes (e.g. Cosmo) the hover and current game and section pick up the theme text colour, to match headings. On others (e.g. Ordeals) this does not seem to happen.
* Game-specific fanart only gets themed if it's refered from a game-specific search page. That classification should take priority, but if the fanart contains subjects from only one game, the page should take that game's theme regardless of how you got there. (Multiple game ones should probably take Grasslands in this case.)

= XMLNav =
* Clicking the dropdowns should focus things, and this either isn't implemented yet or isn't working yet. Chat should move focus to the nickname box and select it all; poll should focus "more polls" on the results (not sure about the vote page). This is shown working as intended on the development page. '''Josh is considering redoing the JS in jQuery. That presents its own problems, of course. Deferring for now.'''
* <del>It is almost impossible to use Skyglade on a test server because none of the XMLnav parser bothers with $GLOBALS['BASE_URL']. In fact almost everything I've downloaded recently to make local CoN work seems to ignore this critical system variable.</del>
* <del>The News nav is slightly incorrect: it is missing the leading navheader, "By Month". It is correct to omit the top "gamename" header, but never any navheaders.</del>
* Submitting polls or visiting the poll section crashes. Also, immediately after submitting a poll or hitting "view results", the Poll dropdown should start open on the following page. (Or I guess we could just AJAX that whole business.) Or we could redirect a submitted poll to the poll page for that poll. '''Will deal with this once we know what the final JS is going to look like.'''
* Zend Compatibility breaks the poll. Tiddles says: 13:47:41: Probably best to ini_set it off before calling XMLnav in Skyline. 13:47:50: Then ini_set it back on explicitly in the poll pages.
* FF6 has a strange nav with repeated sections under GUIDES and GAME DATA for now. This will need adapting to either the old or the new section depending on what's there on Skyglade release day.

= General Markup =
* <del>#sectiontitle should not be present at all on pages where there is no section title. Once the section titles are implemented properly, there should be little more than the front page without one. </del>
* Section titles are looking very good indeed, though I think the nav and title bits for AmaCoN would be better as Store.
* We need to find some way to make the right gamenav bits highlight when in the relevant forums<del>, which is made more cumbersome by the stupid way I've included the header</del>.
* This page should be branded "Forums": http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/rules.php <del>We should brand the dud forum header include page the same way (/layout/Skyglade/foruminc.php IIRC?) which would mean the hokey branding regex in the forum theme could be removed</del>.
* Guides and Info being the default tab type is a good idea to save us page update work, but some pages should have no active tab (e.g. the front page and most of the stuff on its sidebar). There needs to be a way to override in these files.

= General CSS =
* <del>The style includes "con6-core-ie.css" without any pathspec so this is probably being ignored.</del> If possible, we should merge con6-core* styles into style-defaults, as this CSS was intended ultimately to replace that in a new backend. If this is not possible, con6-core* should be moved up a level from Skyglade so that it is available to other themes that may want to make use of it.
* <del>I think we should add semibold and map this to and , as bolded body text seems to look like death for some reason. This should be font-weight 600 (officially anyway - we could play around if necessary, at the risk of doing unpleasant things to the Arial fallback).</del>
* <del>.newsheading should not define a font size - this makes the h1 tiny in individual news pages. .newsheading SHOULD override the hx styles by removing the underscore and any bottom margin/padding in all cases.</del>
* Quiz History page is missing styles on the table. Probably some bad markup. Not quite sure, needs more review but not immediately.

[[Category:Skyglade]]

Skyglade Site Skin Bugs

2012-04-22T15:34:55Z

Tiddles: /* XMLNav */

I'm having trouble processing all the bugs in the site skin using Bugzilla, so I'm going to try moving them in here so I can have better luck trying to track them. If there are things that have previously been fixed, I'm leaving them in the bug ( http://developer.cavesofnarshe.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288 ).

= Themes =
* <del>Also, as discussed earlier: Zenan has no fill/spectrum in its dropdowns, and its sidebar should probably be warmer like the table cells.</del>
* <del>Popups now work, but they're not inheriting the styles correctly. I think I'm missing top minimal, will need to look into that to verify.</del> '''Pending more testing, of course'''
** We should probably follow the Arch model of putting the basic headers in a file that both top and topminimal include.
* On some subthemes (e.g. Cosmo) the hover and current game and section pick up the theme text colour, to match headings. On others (e.g. Ordeals) this does not seem to happen.
* Game-specific fanart only gets themed if it's refered from a game-specific search page. That classification should take priority, but if the fanart contains subjects from only one game, the page should take that game's theme regardless of how you got there. (Multiple game ones should probably take Grasslands in this case.)

= XMLNav =
* Clicking the dropdowns should focus things, and this either isn't implemented yet or isn't working yet. Chat should move focus to the nickname box and select it all; poll should focus "more polls" on the results (not sure about the vote page). This is shown working as intended on the development page. '''Josh is considering redoing the JS in jQuery. That presents its own problems, of course. Deferring for now.'''
* <del>It is almost impossible to use Skyglade on a test server because none of the XMLnav parser bothers with $GLOBALS['BASE_URL']. In fact almost everything I've downloaded recently to make local CoN work seems to ignore this critical system variable.</del>
* <del>The News nav is slightly incorrect: it is missing the leading navheader, "By Month". It is correct to omit the top "gamename" header, but never any navheaders.</del>
* Submitting polls or visiting the poll section crashes. Also, immediately after submitting a poll or hitting "view results", the Poll dropdown should start open on the following page. (Or I guess we could just AJAX that whole business.) Or we could redirect a submitted poll to the poll page for that poll. '''Will deal with this once we know what the final JS is going to look like.'''
* Zend Compatibility breaks the poll. Tiddles says: 13:47:41: Probably best to ini_set it off before calling XMLnav in Skyline. 13:47:50: Then ini_set it back on explicitly in the poll pages.
* FF6 has a strange nav with repeated sections under GUIDES and GAME DATA for now. This will need adapting to either the old or the new section depending on what's there on Skyglade release day.

= General Markup =
* <del>#sectiontitle should not be present at all on pages where there is no section title. Once the section titles are implemented properly, there should be little more than the front page without one. </del>
* Section titles are looking very good indeed, though I think the nav and title bits for AmaCoN would be better as Store.
* We need to find some way to make the right gamenav bits highlight when in the relevant forums<del>, which is made more cumbersome by the stupid way I've included the header</del>.
* This page should be branded "Forums": http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/rules.php <del>We should brand the dud forum header include page the same way (/layout/Skyglade/foruminc.php IIRC?) which would mean the hokey branding regex in the forum theme could be removed</del>.

= General CSS =
* <del>The style includes "con6-core-ie.css" without any pathspec so this is probably being ignored.</del> If possible, we should merge con6-core* styles into style-defaults, as this CSS was intended ultimately to replace that in a new backend. If this is not possible, con6-core* should be moved up a level from Skyglade so that it is available to other themes that may want to make use of it.
* <del>I think we should add semibold and map this to and , as bolded body text seems to look like death for some reason. This should be font-weight 600 (officially anyway - we could play around if necessary, at the risk of doing unpleasant things to the Arial fallback).</del>
* <del>.newsheading should not define a font size - this makes the h1 tiny in individual news pages. .newsheading SHOULD override the hx styles by removing the underscore and any bottom margin/padding in all cases.</del>
* Quiz History page is missing styles on the table. Probably some bad markup. Not quite sure, needs more review but not immediately.

[[Category:Skyglade]]

Skyglade Site Skin Bugs

2012-04-22T15:30:18Z

Tiddles: /* General Markup */

I'm having trouble processing all the bugs in the site skin using Bugzilla, so I'm going to try moving them in here so I can have better luck trying to track them. If there are things that have previously been fixed, I'm leaving them in the bug ( http://developer.cavesofnarshe.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288 ).

= Themes =
* <del>Also, as discussed earlier: Zenan has no fill/spectrum in its dropdowns, and its sidebar should probably be warmer like the table cells.</del>
* <del>Popups now work, but they're not inheriting the styles correctly. I think I'm missing top minimal, will need to look into that to verify.</del> '''Pending more testing, of course'''
** We should probably follow the Arch model of putting the basic headers in a file that both top and topminimal include.
* On some subthemes (e.g. Cosmo) the hover and current game and section pick up the theme text colour, to match headings. On others (e.g. Ordeals) this does not seem to happen.
* Game-specific fanart only gets themed if it's refered from a game-specific search page. That classification should take priority, but if the fanart contains subjects from only one game, the page should take that game's theme regardless of how you got there. (Multiple game ones should probably take Grasslands in this case.)

= XMLNav =
* Clicking the dropdowns should focus things, and this either isn't implemented yet or isn't working yet. Chat should move focus to the nickname box and select it all; poll should focus "more polls" on the results (not sure about the vote page). This is shown working as intended on the development page. '''Josh is considering redoing the JS in jQuery. That presents its own problems, of course. Deferring for now.'''
* <del>It is almost impossible to use Skyglade on a test server because none of the XMLnav parser bothers with $GLOBALS['BASE_URL']. In fact almost everything I've downloaded recently to make local CoN work seems to ignore this critical system variable.</del>
* <del>The News nav is slightly incorrect: it is missing the leading navheader, "By Month". It is correct to omit the top "gamename" header, but never any navheaders.</del>
* Submitting polls or visiting the poll section crashes. Also, immediately after submitting a poll or hitting "view results", the Poll dropdown should start open on the following page. (Or I guess we could just AJAX that whole business.) Or we could redirect a submitted poll to the poll page for that poll. '''Will deal with this once we know what the final JS is going to look like.'''
* Zend Compatibility breaks the poll. Tiddles says: 13:47:41: Probably best to ini_set it off before calling XMLnav in Skyline. 13:47:50: Then ini_set it back on explicitly in the poll pages.

= General Markup =
* <del>#sectiontitle should not be present at all on pages where there is no section title. Once the section titles are implemented properly, there should be little more than the front page without one. </del>
* Section titles are looking very good indeed, though I think the nav and title bits for AmaCoN would be better as Store.
* We need to find some way to make the right gamenav bits highlight when in the relevant forums<del>, which is made more cumbersome by the stupid way I've included the header</del>.
* This page should be branded "Forums": http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/rules.php <del>We should brand the dud forum header include page the same way (/layout/Skyglade/foruminc.php IIRC?) which would mean the hokey branding regex in the forum theme could be removed</del>.

= General CSS =
* <del>The style includes "con6-core-ie.css" without any pathspec so this is probably being ignored.</del> If possible, we should merge con6-core* styles into style-defaults, as this CSS was intended ultimately to replace that in a new backend. If this is not possible, con6-core* should be moved up a level from Skyglade so that it is available to other themes that may want to make use of it.
* <del>I think we should add semibold and map this to and , as bolded body text seems to look like death for some reason. This should be font-weight 600 (officially anyway - we could play around if necessary, at the risk of doing unpleasant things to the Arial fallback).</del>
* <del>.newsheading should not define a font size - this makes the h1 tiny in individual news pages. .newsheading SHOULD override the hx styles by removing the underscore and any bottom margin/padding in all cases.</del>
* Quiz History page is missing styles on the table. Probably some bad markup. Not quite sure, needs more review but not immediately.

[[Category:Skyglade]]

Skyglade Site Skin Bugs

2012-04-22T15:27:21Z

Tiddles: /* Themes */

I'm having trouble processing all the bugs in the site skin using Bugzilla, so I'm going to try moving them in here so I can have better luck trying to track them. If there are things that have previously been fixed, I'm leaving them in the bug ( http://developer.cavesofnarshe.com/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288 ).

= Themes =
* <del>Also, as discussed earlier: Zenan has no fill/spectrum in its dropdowns, and its sidebar should probably be warmer like the table cells.</del>
* <del>Popups now work, but they're not inheriting the styles correctly. I think I'm missing top minimal, will need to look into that to verify.</del> '''Pending more testing, of course'''
** We should probably follow the Arch model of putting the basic headers in a file that both top and topminimal include.
* On some subthemes (e.g. Cosmo) the hover and current game and section pick up the theme text colour, to match headings. On others (e.g. Ordeals) this does not seem to happen.
* Game-specific fanart only gets themed if it's refered from a game-specific search page. That classification should take priority, but if the fanart contains subjects from only one game, the page should take that game's theme regardless of how you got there. (Multiple game ones should probably take Grasslands in this case.)

= XMLNav =
* Clicking the dropdowns should focus things, and this either isn't implemented yet or isn't working yet. Chat should move focus to the nickname box and select it all; poll should focus "more polls" on the results (not sure about the vote page). This is shown working as intended on the development page. '''Josh is considering redoing the JS in jQuery. That presents its own problems, of course. Deferring for now.'''
* <del>It is almost impossible to use Skyglade on a test server because none of the XMLnav parser bothers with $GLOBALS['BASE_URL']. In fact almost everything I've downloaded recently to make local CoN work seems to ignore this critical system variable.</del>
* <del>The News nav is slightly incorrect: it is missing the leading navheader, "By Month". It is correct to omit the top "gamename" header, but never any navheaders.</del>
* Submitting polls or visiting the poll section crashes. Also, immediately after submitting a poll or hitting "view results", the Poll dropdown should start open on the following page. (Or I guess we could just AJAX that whole business.) Or we could redirect a submitted poll to the poll page for that poll. '''Will deal with this once we know what the final JS is going to look like.'''
* Zend Compatibility breaks the poll. Tiddles says: 13:47:41: Probably best to ini_set it off before calling XMLnav in Skyline. 13:47:50: Then ini_set it back on explicitly in the poll pages.

= General Markup =
* <del>#sectiontitle should not be present at all on pages where there is no section title. Once the section titles are implemented properly, there should be little more than the front page without one. </del>
* Section titles are looking very good indeed, though I think the nav and title bits for AmaCoN would be better as Store.
* We need to find some way to make the right gamenav bits highlight when in the relevant forums, which is made more cumbersome by the stupid way I've included the header.
* This page should be branded "Forums": http://www.cavesofnarshe.com/forums/rules.php We should brand the dud forum header include page the same way (/layout/Skyglade/foruminc.php IIRC?) which would mean the hokey branding regex in the forum theme could be removed.

= General CSS =
* <del>The style includes "con6-core-ie.css" without any pathspec so this is probably being ignored.</del> If possible, we should merge con6-core* styles into style-defaults, as this CSS was intended ultimately to replace that in a new backend. If this is not possible, con6-core* should be moved up a level from Skyglade so that it is available to other themes that may want to make use of it.
* <del>I think we should add semibold and map this to and , as bolded body text seems to look like death for some reason. This should be font-weight 600 (officially anyway - we could play around if necessary, at the risk of doing unpleasant things to the Arial fallback).</del>
* <del>.newsheading should not define a font size - this makes the h1 tiny in individual news pages. .newsheading SHOULD override the hx styles by removing the underscore and any bottom margin/padding in all cases.</del>
* Quiz History page is missing styles on the table. Probably some bad markup. Not quite sure, needs more review but not immediately.

[[Category:Skyglade]]

Skyglade Site Skin Bugs

2012-04-18T22:14:27Z

Tiddles:

User talk:Tiddles

2011-08-07T21:15:20Z

Tiddles: Created page with "El mexan hat es mejor"

El mexan hat es mejor

User:Tiddles

2011-08-07T21:15:03Z

Tiddles: Created page with "The best one"

The best one

CoN YouTube Video Bumpers

2011-08-07T21:14:30Z

Tiddles: penis

All video that is uploaded to the CoN YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/cavesofnarshe/) needs to be properly edited to contain our bumpers at the front. This document describes what the bumpers are and what to do with them.

== Makeup of Bumpers ==
Bumpers are simple video files that are tacked on to video files captured by CoN staff to provide CoN branding to these videos. They are typically crossfaded with the first second or so of the video to make them a little less easy to excise by anyone who might want to steal them, and to provide an interesting effect.

Bumpers (so far) are always AVI files and they have been developed in the following sizes and framerates:

* 360p (480x360), 30 frames per second.
* 720p (1280x720), 30 frames per second.

The image used in the bumpers is a CoN logo with scanline effect. (File exists on webserver?) This image is connected to a silent wav file using [[AVISynth]] and [[VirtualDub]] at the correct audio settings for the video file to be attached to it. A bumper should be created to match each size video uploaded to the CoN YT channel.

[[Category:Video Production]]