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CypherJF - Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:36 am
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Not to really bring this up again, but I am working on revising Underlord's tutorial -- I would like you guys to check out how its going so far.. only spent about a half-of-an-hour on it; but do you think the formatting seems good? or what suggestions do you have?

http://www.subspacenetwork.com/mervtutor/

pixelsoft - Sun Feb 08, 2004 4:26 am
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yeah, looks good... the font in the menu could be a bit bigger, but.. it's ok.. nice

Jason - Sun Feb 08, 2004 1:28 pm
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Yeah, it's looking really good. As pixelsoft said though, up the font size a wee bit. It's hard on the eyes at the moment. And if you're using CSS, try using relative font-sizes like font-size: small; so that your text is scalable. I have a wireless keyboard, so I often sit a ways back from my monitor. I scale the font size up on most websites while I'm sitting back there so I don't squint myself blind. :]

CypherJF - Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:21 pm
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well thats not my fault now is it

... lol ill work out font issues l8r

Anonymous - Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:53 pm
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Keep or Remove the idea based off of PHP's system of allowing comments beign posted by users on each page?

Dustpuppy - Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:43 am
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If you want keep it, you should at least make a downloadable version without any of the PHP too, for offline reference.

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:24 am
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oy :/ well i guess it wouldnt be that bad, but definately at a later time.. i guess..

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 9:18 am
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okay i got most of it coded in; ill need someone to help me figure out how to make a script run w/ CRON or w/e.. :/ i havent been able to get that to work; but in this way it will run a script and compile the whole archive of files into .html form; and zip it up for a dload...

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oh meh, if you were saying downloadable archive w/o the comments; thats not an option of how i designed this thing :/ sorrrrrryy.. i didnt really think about this stuff

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:02 am
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if someone would be willing to write a CSS thing for the 'code' portions of the tutorial that'd be great help too

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server host is currently down for w/e futzing reason

Dustpuppy - Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:55 pm
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I started working on a revision of the tutorial, I was just going to format it, fix links etc., to make it easier to use. But I have other things to work on, and it looks like you're going full on so maybe you can use what I've done so far:

http://quotes.ssforum.net/MERVbot%20tutorial.htm

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:59 pm
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excellent.. ill see what I can do with it...

I would like to figure out an easy way to have code sniplets better formatted as well as coloring :/ but that'd require me probably putting the actual code sniplets into either a php tag and/or another file and include it that way which UGgida.. or well i could technically go through all the code sniplets and highlight the keywords myself but i dont have that much time

Cyan~Fire - Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:14 pm
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I would actually recommend putting the all the instructions on one page and all the examples on another. That way the user wouldn't have to load a page every time he wants to see something.

Great work so far!

Dustpuppy - Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:28 pm
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I wrote a program to highlight the code fragments. Just look for keywords/comments and add the relevant tags.

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:58 pm
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Cyan~Fire wrote:

well then you can just keep using the old tutorial

lol

CypherJF - Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:58 pm
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Dustpuppy wrote:

I wrote a program to highlight the code fragments. Just look for keywords/comments and add the relevant tags.

now why didnt I think of that

lolol

Anonymous - Wed Mar 03, 2004 3:12 pm
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hmm, this link doesnt seem to work for me, does anyone know where i could go for this tutorial?

Anonymous - Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:23 pm
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SubspaceNetwork.com had to switch hosts w/o like any warning, so I'll be working on getting that area back up (also, my harddrive crashed so it's going to be like a couple weeks...)

D1st0rt - Wed Mar 03, 2004 9:20 pm
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could I get a copy of your php stuff so I can use it to work on a TWCore one?

CypherJF - Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:39 pm
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To be honest, my PHP script is just HTML files, and an include statement for the comments part.

The comments part right now is really crappy, because my friend bailed out on me when I told him that it was cutting comments off at 255 chars, and hes not helpin me anymore. So if you know how to make the field longer than 255 chars MySQL PM me so I can continue the develpoment of it after I get my new HD...

adios.

Dustpuppy - Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:37 pm
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Change the field to a Text

CypherJF - Mon Mar 08, 2004 7:19 pm
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back online w/ working comments/notes