[Jsystem-general] RE: New icefire site

[stan <st...@k2...>]

> Cool!
>  We can make up some app buttons, link them to Icefire, Process 
> Controller, Stardust, etc... in a separate module under the 
> main menu. 
> How's that sound?

Fantastic!  :)

> I wasn't implying vaporware or anything just wondering if the screen 
> shots weren't from an earlier dev stage or whether you had added some 
> new stuff :)
> Nice upgrade!

I wasn't implying that you were implying that! =)





> -----Original Message-----
> From: 30Mil [mailto:30...@sc...] 
> Sent: 26 April 2004 03:47
> To: stan
> Cc: la...@k2...; 'Mark Woan'; 'DaWeasal'; 
> nu...@si...
> Subject: Re: New icefire site
> 
> 
> Cool!
>  We can make up some app buttons, link them to Icefire, Process 
> Controller, Stardust, etc... in a separate module under the 
> main menu. 
> How's that sound?
> *
> "Do you mean the orange bar? I'm using IE6.0 and they appear 
> fine to me
>     - anyone else notice a problem?"*
> I run Mozilla Firefox and the entire image portion of the orange bar 
> that contains the link "raises up" a bit on the mouse-over. 
> The rest of 
> the links on the page simply change color and underline as expected.
> 
> I wasn't implying vaporware or anything just wondering if the screen 
> shots weren't from an earlier dev stage or whether you had added some 
> new stuff :)
> Nice upgrade!
> 
> stan wrote:
> 
> >The new icefire mini-site looks different as I like the 
> fresh look and, 
> >to be honest, after messing around with both e107 and mos I 
> still keep 
> >coming back to good old notepad.  I put together that site using 
> >notepad and image composer in less than a day - three days 
> of messing 
> >with mos and I got nowhere.
> >
> >I'd like to improve the main site slightly by having nice big chunky 
> >links to the various apps (currently icefire is the only one 
> so the big 
> >chunky "download icefire now" link serves that purpose.  However, I 
> >disagree that having a separate look to the icefire 
> mini-site confuses 
> >the user - it is, at the end of the day, part of 
> k23productions (as per 
> >the URL) and does not really duplicate anything (the forum link will 
> >point to the main k23 forum, the downloads link will point to 
> >sourceforge, etc.) :)
> >
> >As for the screenshots of icefire on the page - these are all of the 
> >current build (actually running from the VB IDE) so they're 
> certainly 
> >not vapourware or concept shots.  As for the plugin/docklet 
> >interaction, my recent post on the forums explains this a 
> bit more but 
> >basically, I've moved the docklet:plugin relationship from 1:1 to 
> >1:many, plus you can now rearrange docklets within icefire.  
> You can't 
> >rearrange individual plugins yet but I will add a little gui 
> to do this 
> >and - eventually - you'll be able to drag plugins around 
> (and out of) 
> >icefire...
> >
> >As for this:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Did you notice that the link style of underline screws up the
> >>main menu 
> >>graphic?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Do you mean the orange bar?  I'm using IE6.0 and they appear 
> fine to me
> >- anyone else notice a problem?
> >
> >I now have a number of standalone plugins running quite happily in 
> >icefire so expect the SDK very soon now! =)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: 30Mil [mailto:30...@sc...]
> >>Sent: 25 April 2004 17:02
> >>To: stan
> >>Cc: la...@k2...; 'Mark Woan'; 'DaWeasal'; 
> >>nu...@si...
> >>Subject: Re: New icefire site
> >>
> >>
> >>Responding late - sorry :)
> >>Not to be a stick in the mud but how come the new Icefire page is
> >>completely separate of the K23 main site?
> >>If it's a matter of "Can't do what I want with it if it's 
> just a page 
> >>inside MOS" then there is a plug in that lets you display 
> >>external pages 
> >>as main content. That way you can continue building the 
> >>external sites 
> >>while keeping all inside MOS. I feel it's less confusing for 
> >>the user. 
> >>One site, one url to bookmark.  But I don't know if following links 
> >>inside that page would keep them inside MOS or open up a new page.
> >>
> >>Anyway ....
> >>It looks awesome! Are those recent screen shots of Icefire?
> >>Did the plug 
> >>ins change to docklets to break the "Plugin" mold?
> >>Did you notice that the link style of underline screws up the 
> >>main menu 
> >>graphic?
> >>Are you going to use a separate HTML page for downloads or use the 
> >>remository or DOCman module for downloads.
> >>Btw Docman looks much nicer. I've been playing with it 
> >>locally it's it's 
> >>much better than remository. I'm going to switch my own 
> >>downloads at SC9 
> >>to docman shortly. But unfortunately we can't get Zlib on the 
> >>site. Ken
> >>
> >>stan wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>In an effort to make things look pretty and to make finding things
> >>>easier, I've set up a template for a new icefire mini-site here:
> >>>
> >>>http://icefire.k23productions.com
> >>>
> >>>(or here if the sub-domain doesn't work)
> >>>
> >>>http://www.k23productions.com/icefire
> >>>
> >>>The link at the main site could take people here, they can they
> >>>download plugins, addons and the like from the mini-site.
> >>>
> >>>Comments anyone? :)
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >
> >  
> >
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