Axonz 3.0 CSS Theme Released!

Authored by: destr0yr on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 06:21 AM EST

simply put. sweet.

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Authored by: matthewcox on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 07:07 AM EST

The inital glance looks awsome! Congrats. And boy does that css look cleeeaaaan. Nice commenting too.

Now for the cautions and bugs. All clients tested were on W2K

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MSIE 5.5
Right blocks aren't visible in 800x600 (see here).
Also notice that you can't scroll right

Mozilla FireBird 0.7
Have to scroll right in 800x600 (see here)
Also notice the white margin in the upper right if you scroll right

Netscape 4.79 (I'm not kidding. My clients' sites still get about 4% of their business from netscape 4.x users) Also many linux users are still using 4.x if that's an audience you're trying to attract

• Version 3.0 axonz didn't do so well (see here)

• But Version 2.1 axonz did fairly well even in 800x600 (see here only 1024x768 shown)
  Notice the broken story images though.

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The MSIE and Mozilla issues seem to be width related. Remember that the scroll bar takes up some of the 800. I usually choose a width of 760 if I want to ensure no right scrolling.

Overall, this is great! Thanks for your hard work and contribution. -Matthew

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Authored by: wooge on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 09:54 AM EST

WOW!... darnit...
...the only problem with CSS positioning... it's 'new'.

Thanks very much for the screenshots... i think i have my work cut
out for me for the next release...

I wonder if i should just scrap the CSSp and go back to tables?

Cheers,
-wOOge

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Authored by: g3cko on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 12:17 PM EST

naw... people can use "old' themes if they wanna run a site for netscape old versions...

don't let people who live at www.oldversion.com run your life!
keep up the wicked awesome work!!

Theo

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Authored by: matthewcox on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 01:12 PM EST

scrap? heck no. Your 3.0 makes the perfect foundation for anyone who wants to create a w3 validating page. I myself have spent hours trying to "clean up" the supposed "clean" theme. Sounds like you can relate to that. Just think how easy it will be for future geekers to go in and modify your template. If they want to start from scratch, they can just unlink the css and start adding....no deletions or cleaning necessary. Anyways, I'm rambling. Don't scrap anything.

As far as those old browsers and small monitors go, I've been looking at the geek code with this problem in mind. lib-common.php has a section that evaluates which theme to use. It seems like it would not be too difficult to add a few more conditions that evaluate the environment variable "$HTTP_USER_AGENT" against a table of valid themes per agent and a priority sort in case the default won't work and there is more than one valid alternative.

Just think, this would also enable the ability to cater to WAP, lynx, WAI, or even robots for that matter.

I'm still getting to know geeklog and the API, but I hope to tackle this once I get more oriented unless the devteam is working on something already.

Thanks again for you hard work! -Matthew

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Authored by: wooge on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 02:21 PM EST

Interesting... it would mean a bit more work on us themers but
imagine a theme that included the HTTP/WAP/TEXT versions of the
same theme...

very interesting...

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Authored by: wlparks on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 01:11 PM EST

I had the same problem that you do with your site 800x600 and lower have issues of right column falling below. I had to resort to using a table for the main layout. 3 rows 3 columns with header and footer having a colspan=3. This seems to work good for me and doesn't break in older browsers. You can see mine at http://www.catt.com, I've also done a lot more with graphics.

your'll probably find more tables then the one I mentioned but mostly css :)

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Authored by: wooge on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 02:57 PM EST

tell me b'out it ...tables are hard to give up ;)

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Authored by: vbgunz on Tuesday, December 16 2003 @ 10:35 PM EST

w00ge, no doubt Axonz 3.0 is so sweet and probably one of the most desirable themes Geeklog has seen yet. Bravo on your work and release and I hope to see more Axonz in the future.

Thank's for the candy ;)

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Authored by: wooge on Wednesday, December 17 2003 @ 02:09 AM EST

Just a quick note to all... I'm not going to release my theme on this
site just yet...

I'd like to squash a few bugs that have popped up recently, before I
upload it to the geeklog downloads section.

You will still be able to download v3.0 from my site, until I finnish
bug squashin'

Cheers all!
-wOOge

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Authored by: largo on Thursday, December 18 2003 @ 12:05 AM EST

Superb!

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Authored by: ScurvyDawg on Thursday, December 18 2003 @ 10:51 PM EST

Nice work, very cool.

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