(also e-mailed directly to Lee)
A few points that I noticed on a quick look around this morning.
- On the navigation bar, the link to buy the game sometimes says "Buy Stuff" and other times "Buy Thud"
- On my usual browser (IE6.0.2900), a couple of times I used the "Back" button on got a "Page has expired" warning
- Any chance of getting some game rules onto the site? I havn't completed a game this far, as I havn't a clue what I'm doing.......
- When changing styles, the 1280x1024 style has a background picture under the main text and navigation bar. The other styles do not. IMHO the background image looks rather good.
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Anskia wrote:
- On the navigation bar, the link to buy the game sometimes says "Buy Stuff" and other times "Buy Thud"
Fixing right now. Most menus (except, I think, the home page) are includes from another html file so should be consistent throughout the site.
- On my usual browser (IE6.0.2900), a couple of times I used the "Back" button on got a "Page has expired" warning
Hmm, this is from the new, and improved style-switcher which should detect your screen size and select the appropriate style sheet to use. IIRC using the manual switcher function then utilises PHPSESSIONIDs (Dewi can correct me on this if he wants/needs to) to effectively load a new page. This is to prevent the site not working correctly under some configs of personal firewalls which legitimately prevent XSS and site spoofing attacks (cheers for that one, Timo!
). Clicking re-load will work in the shorrt term but we'll try to set it up so that the data is persistent and you don't get these error messages.
- Any chance of getting some game rules onto the site? I havn't completed a game this far, as I havn't a clue what I'm doing.......
Yes. We have them somewhere. Otherwise I'll borrow or cadge them off someone and scan them in. If anyone has a copy and would like to mail them to me...
- When changing styles, the 1280x1024 style has a background picture under the main text and navigation bar. The other styles do not. IMHO the background image looks rather good.
Thanks for that!
i've actually just re-worked all of them for a final look. The pictures were there but either not showing or were way too dark. The new look brings out the features of the dwarfs and the trolls as well as the cavernous "fires from hell" behind the trolls 
I hope you all like it! Thanlks all for the well-excellent help and feedback both here and via mail. Particularly thanx again to Anskia, Scrubby, Sanctimonius and Rei-Jin! Good work all!
Couple of bits:
1) Why no <title>s?
2) In the 800x600 style, on the contact page the navigation slightly overlaps the comments field: doesnt matter much, since the bg of that div is transparent, so nothing is obscured, just might look a bit messy.
Mr Scrub
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
Well spotted Scrubby!
The container div for the 8x6 stylesheet has been altered whilst the others remain the same. Interestingly it's a Firefox artefact and doesn't appear in IE (as the dimensions were desigend to accomodate IE's foibles as it's still [sadly] the most prolific borwser out there).
Titles? Haven't gotten around to them yet but will. We've been working diligently to get the site looking good. The backgroundy bits will come but first the form has to be right. Well spotted too!
That's that one sorted
However, the "play thud" link seems to have dropped out of the navigation column. Of course that might be a deliberate policy while something's changed/to prevent people getting into the game before it's ready, but I thought it was worth raising in case it was accidental.
EDIT: Looking at the html I see that it (along with the Join thud link) has just been commented out, so presumably it is a deliberate policy
Mr Scrub
"LOOKS PERFECTLY LOGICAL TO ME"
Looking at the html I see that it (along with the Join thud link) has just been commented out, so presumably it is a deliberate policy
Indeed. We have a couple fo things to do to the game before inflicting it on the world. You can still play at game.thudguild.com, and we'll be hanging out there every so often. We have to lose the background graphics as well lest we be sued so i'm working on some skins for it.
As soon as that's ready we'll be working on the Ancient and Honourable Guild of Thudmeisters where acolytes can join the august company of your good selves and build a community around the game. More on that later although do feel free to start a topic and discuss. We've talked it over until very late on many a night but I'm sure we've missed out things so any suggestions would be much appreciated.