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Beta Test My New Design [Pokemon Sky // Dynamic Cloud]

saul

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    • Hey Guys! I've been working long and hard on Pokemon Sky's latest design. Normally, it takes me a week or so to make a design, but this one was extremely time consuming. Why? Because when I say it's time consuming, I truly mean that! This design is based on your time. What I mean is, the header image and backgrounds change as the day goes by. It's perfect for my site, right? To imitate the sky (Pokemon SKY).

    Bleh, anyways....

    I had a lot of struggling to get through as I coded this. I'm sure that there are plenty of faults and glitches in the coding. But, I'd like you guys to try it out. I'll take suggestions, comments, and bug reports. Although, I'll be honest, I'm not sure I'll actually use all suggestions. I like the way it looks, so unless I'm really convinced that what you want to change is for the better, I probably won't take it. :X

    What I'm most concerned over is loading time. This layout runs two time scripts. One for the background and one for the header. If I could of had, I would of had just put it all into one, but I don't really know how. =P So loading the header may take some time. Not only that but it's pulling out a flash based clock, so I'm sure that slows things down a bit. So if you guys have any ideas on how to possibly make it go faster, they'd be appreciated.

    So, check it out!

     

    Kanto

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    What the loading time for me is wonderful. The site pops up in like five seconds (or less). But maybe its because Im using Vista. Either way, the thing I was concerned was the game I played it. Now that does take a while just for the picture to load.
     

    saul

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    • Greg, I'll try to fix the cutout. You reminded me that I had meant to do that :x

    And as for being on the left, I don't know how to center those types of layouts. And believe me, I've tried. >.<;;
     

    aRedMoon

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    • :D Forgot to mention that I love the idea~ it's cool.

    <font face="Verdana" size="1"> </font>
    You have a lot of redundant tags. CSS it to make loading faster. :x
     

    Geometric-sama

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    • To centre a CSS-based layout, add the following to your body {} CSS:

    Code: 
    left: 50%;
margin-left: -[half the width of your layout]px;

    This is a manly way to implement it, and works similarly for vertical alignment.
     

    Kira

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    • The "News box" next to the clock doesn't go well with me. I believe you should change all text in there to white. As for me, the title of the news item is black, which, when matched with the background makes it unreadable, unless highlighted.

    Other than that, looks pretty nice.
     

    saul

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    • KK. Fixed the news box. I had it at white before, but I didn't like it :x But, meh whatever.

    I'm about ready to release it. All I need to do is write/code(?) something up. =P
     

    aRedMoon

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    • Perhaps force the header to load first?

    Because it loaded really slowly for me and your little briefing box was unreadable for most of the time. Since it's at the top of the page, it'd get read first... and well, if one can't read that, why should they bother to try and read anything else? :S
     

    saul

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    • You can Force things to load first? O.o;; How?

    Geez, I thought I knew a nice bit XD Guess not....
     

    aRedMoon

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    • That I'm not sure about. Bug JA... she had one site that had like a loading bar while the images were loading. That was a long time ago though. :s
     

    saul

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    • Yeah.... I did a Google run for a script like that, couldn't find anything. But if you do find something, Geo, I'd be eternally grateful ^^;;
     
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