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[Toxikk Veteran]

slacking off. sorry if i have real life things that are more important. :(

we are going to resume working in the near future. we have some new ideas that hopefully can make it even beter. plus, we got in house gfx now... so watch out. it may be even more fly. :D

many of the details are still being discussed. you will know of any new details once they can be made public.

[XP_01]

A Longhorn paint icon for Game news? Other than that it looks okay

[jerry]

slacking off. sorry if i have real life things that are more important. :(

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It was meant as pun, nothing serious. ;) Where is your lighter side ? :p

[Dean W]

slacking off. sorry if i have real life things that are more important. :(

we are going to resume working in the near future. we have some new ideas that hopefully can make it even beter. plus, we got in house gfx now... so watch out. it may be even more fly. :D

many of the details are still being discussed. you will know of any new details once they can be made public.

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I'm Sure it will be worth the Wait!

[Long]

A Longhorn paint icon for Game news? Other than that it looks okay

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I couldn't find any other icons :p

[Eli]

No matter what happens with this, you guys do an awsome job with the site. Most visited site for me no matter how it looks (as long as it looks good).

I say it's still better looking then slashdot.

[Krudomanic]

OMG looks awesome...?

Great design... this design is going to make neowin so popular (not that it's already popular and the biggest site on the Internet) and the talk of the Internet for many months when it's lunched...

My hats off to the designer of the site as this is just outstanding craftsmanship and a great design...

A big thumbs up :punk:...

I do have an idea to add to the site which would be an asset to the site... as neowin uses the original script before Virtuanews which has been modified over the years by neowin and made it much better...

As I use Virtuanews as well... I have been planning to add an online and offline button to the script... The idea would be to add the online offline to the show topic next to the name of the person whom has replied to a news thread...

Could you take the script from IPB for online and offline users and add this to the bottom of global.php before "?" and then add the code to where you want this on the front-end of the site... Or would you have to write a script for this...

It would be a good idea...?

[Axel]

perhaps some more ppl can join the neowin theme team! I bet if more ppl did, it would be done in no time! There are some real talents here on neowin.

[Chadwick]

sure there are tons of us that know php, tons that have skill in photoshop and other programs, but that doesn't qualify you for hte job.

YOu have to work absolutely flawlessly with everyone else, no grudges, no whining, no complaining, no true slacking, dont leave emails unanswered, etc. Not everyone can dedicate themselves to a cause like this, may have school and or work, which severly inhibits all developement. i'm sure the neowin team would contact anyone they see fit to join and help.

[bakerster]

I'd like to see the news comments more of like a post. Where you can click on the persons name to see their IPB profile etc.

[+StevoFC MVC]

i think it would make a lot more sense to make the news posts a thread. because people end up making a thread anyways about the news posts then you have comments in the stupid news pages plus in a thread.

[bakerster]

i think it would make a lot more sense to make the news posts a thread. because people end up making a thread anyways about the news posts then you have comments in the stupid news pages plus in a thread.

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Nah that would feel cheap.

[Sietse Veteran]

A custom news system is way more expandable and adjustable to your needs than a forum.. :)

[bakerster]

A custom news system is way more expandable and adjustable to your needs than a forum.. :)

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Yes but actually make the news posts easy to read.

[Krudomanic]

First off.  I would like to thank the admins of this wonderful community for giving me the opportunity to do this.  I also would like to thank Long for coming up with such a wonderful design.  The community...  You all rock.  You are the ones that make this place what it is.  This one is for you.  I am not getting paid to do this.  I do this for the love of the community and for the love of web coding.

But most importantly...  Redmak.  You have helped me get this project to a place that I did not think I could get it to.  I was totally skeptical about XHTML 1.0 Strict when I started, but you stuck with me and helped me eliminate the issues and, together, we got the damn thing validated.  That rocks!  I really appreciate you being there for me and assisting me along the way.  You have made it really easy for me to get caught up in this and want to do it the best that I can.  I hope you get some free time from doing all this front-end stuff and can focus on doing what you do best.  That backend.  :)

Now.  Let me tell you straight up.  The main reason why I thought this would never happen is because I never thought that I would get the chance.  I have recently been "reborn" to web coding. (thanks Molly) Going for something this big ... something that the web standards community covets ... something I thought was totally out of my league.  COMPLIANCE.  Not just any compliance.  XHTML strict compliance.  That is a huge reason why I doubted myself in the early stages of this and I totally pulled something out that even I could never dream of (thanks again REDMAK!!). 

As for me being reborn to coding.  I was a table coder before.  ALL I could do was tables.  But as I learned about semantic coding by utilizing simple markup in the HTML and using CSS... I knew that I had to get my fire going again.  I knew that I could help the place I love.  I never really understood the power of CSS until now.  And I still do not know everything.  But, as it stands right now ... there is only ONE table on the entire mainpage.  And it used how tables should be used.  To display data.  If you look at the screenshot that is being attached you will see that this table holds the Microsoft Build Numbers content. :devil:

I gotta tell you now.  There are still some issues.  A few bugs are still open.  And a couple of things are not yet complete.  I would say it is at about 85% right now.

Some of what is yet to be completed:

- top news post area

- sidebar needs to be programmed more

- header for recent posts

- creating new news entry with valid markup output

- add title attributes to those links that are still missing it

- add browser detect and exclude out of date browsers such as ie5.0 -- will be sent to download page at ms

Some of the bugs:

- some sizing problems in ie5.5 due to the box model.  i will be installing the box model hack to eliminate this issue

- sometimes the recent posts bleed out of the background.  simple to eliminate by modifying the backend code

- need to fix border code for news posts -- remove from being inline and put in ext CSS

The worst bug was squashed I think...  I had a nasty scrolling bug inside of the news divs.  I had to rebuild the entire set of new posts.  But, it was for the best.  What you could do was put your mouse inside the news post heading and then drag the mouse down and the text would scroll out of view.  Weird stuff.

ANYWAYS....

Drumroll please.  Here it is.  The screenshot.  This is a shot of the live code.  Taken from Firefox.  But I can assure you that so far the page looks almost 100% the same in each browser... give or take some percent on the font ;)  Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari... all money.

Let me know what you think.

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Sorry to sound a little rude but, was this site done by the same person because they don't half look similar...?

http://www.winbeta.org/

Or is it me being a silly moo

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

I think it's flattering they've decided to copy elements of our design.

[Krudomanic]

I think it's flattering they've decided to copy elements of our design.

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Oops I've started a war...? :cry:

[john smith 1924 Veteran]

No. We're not going to get drawn on this; there are clear similarities. This thread, and the design, has been here for a long time... you go figure.

[Jase]

Looks amazzzzinggggg you get (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) (Y) !!! cant wait!!

[Guest FaX]

Yeah it does look nice any dates yet?

[Marshalus Veteran]

No. We're not going to get drawn on this; there are clear similarities. This thread, and the design, has been here for a long time... you go figure.

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Yep.

[Krudomanic]

No I fully understand and apologise for any convenience caused...

Sorry guys I often jump instead of using my brain sometimes which causes a riot...

Sorry :blush: :blush: :blush: :blush:

[Long]

Did, Winbeta, just, steal, my, design.

[Rix]

Did, Winbeta, just, steal, my, design.

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:o . Oh Noes :blink:

[neufuse Veteran]

looks good so far... although does look eeriely similar to winbeta.. as for the icons and gradients and such