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Ok just wanted to say excellent stuff on helping me out with my programming structure, method and teaching me standard security to those who have.

For those who aren't aware, I am currently developing a new mmorpg using PHP and MySQL and although it is a training project to help me develop my PHP skills while I am self-training, it seems to be turning in to a very good rival for some of the PHP mmorpg's out there (and some of these sites have over 100,000 unique accounts, 10% of which at least are paying subscribers for premium status).

Anyway, as I slowly develop this project I am uploading the new features to the host for online testing. I would appreciate some feedback on any aspect of the site you dissaprove of or suggestions too.

The site is currently uploaded to http://www.themob.co.cc BUT right now I am creating the registration page and table structure so no new registrations, but help me out with the look of the site for now and I will post updates about its progress in this post and gratefully accept your critisicm.

Oh also, even though I am only creating the registration page, all the proper scripts have been written for login, verification code via email, verification code check and login or divert and so on, so once the registration is made then the core of the game will be accessible! #NOTICE# Don't expect your account to exist after making it until final release as I may need to purge the database for certain reasons! ##

Wish me luck, I am devoting serious time to this project!
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Dude...open your homepage in Firefox 3 and just watch the textarea. :|
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JAB Creations wrote:Dude...open your homepage in Firefox 3 and just watch the textarea. :|
What about it? Looks okay to me
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That 'ticker' thing hammers my PC something terrible. Is it really necessary? Why not replace it with an animated gif?
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I am using firefox 3, no problem as far as I can see. Maybe it's just ur specs?

Problem with gif's is, you have to pre-load the gif before it plays properly, and while it's pre-loading it also plays as its loading causing a very slow display! Javascript was the better choice I thought!

Mind you this is the kind of feedback i'm looking for, help me to adapt to different types of computer/user etc.

I took the idea (and format of code as it seemed the most efficient :( ) from the old apache 404 page.
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You guys are way off...the are spelling errors in the textarea underlined in red in Firefox. Firefox has had a spellchecker since version 2! If you're half serious about this stuff you should be spell checking everything! Besides that while it's not really my genre of taste it still looks interesting.
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8ennett wrote:Problem with gif's is, you have to pre-load the gif before it plays properly, and while it's pre-loading it also plays as its loading causing a very slow display! Javascript was the better choice I thought!
Preload the image with Javascript and only display it once it's downloaded then.

Besides, an image like a ticker won't be very big. GIF is a pretty clever format, it only stores the pixels that change in each frame. In a typing thing there's only be 20 or so for each frame... that's tiny.
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JAB Creations wrote:You guys are way off...the are spelling errors in the textarea underlined in red in Firefox. Firefox has had a spellchecker since version 2! If you're half serious about this stuff you should be spell checking everything! Besides that while it's not really my genre of taste it still looks interesting.
The text in there is just a temporary thing to give you an idea, I'll work on little details like that when I've finished the bulk of the app. All text that is added to the site is checked using the spell-checker but thanks for the heads up anyway! There are only my first two initial pages loaded to the web (not spell-checked or tested for bugs etc) so I can get some critiscism on them, the one's online atm are just test versions to get the aesthetics right.
onion2k wrote:Besides, an image like a ticker won't be very big. GIF is a pretty clever format, it only stores the pixels that change in each frame. In a typing thing there's only be 20 or so for each frame... that's tiny.
Yeah I know, I've been in to basic site design and image editing since the mid-90's (but am excited to use something more than basic HTML now). I just wanted to have the text as basic and fast-loading as possible (and stylish but not overkill) but obviously this method of displaying the text seems to be in dispute, I'll see what else I can come up with.

Thanks for the help
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Just to add to that spell checking post as well, most spell-checkers are set for English (UK) or English (US) and not both, and since this is a British-made site then US set spell-checkers will pick up British spelling as mistakes!
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JayBird wrote:
JAB Creations wrote:Dude...open your homepage in Firefox 3 and just watch the textarea. :|
What about it? Looks okay to me
Yeah Jay Bird it is also okay with me.
But I notice that on the first load about not a 100% the text are not pleasing but when its done load it turns okay.
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I've updated the login page now and replaced that text area with something different. The site is progressing great too. The login and registration system is finished now and you can't access the site properly until you verify your account, but the verification code doen't get sent out yet even though the script is setup because my current host doesn't have the php extension OpenSSL included so am asking them to enable it.

Also, I've discovered that when I open the site in firefox it's fine, but when I open it in iexplorer it only shows the background, any ideas on that? When I run it on my localhost it works fine with ie, but on my web host it doesn't, reckon that's to do with their server config? The css file loads, the php scripts load but there is no display other than the background and the animated mouse cursor (ie only).
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Found the problem and fixed it too. In my default.css I had the following:

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HTML, BODY{  background-color: #000000;  background-image: url('http://themob.co.cc/images/smoke.png');  background-attachment: fixed;  background-position: center center;  background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
body,td,th {
    font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #999999;
}
But because the first tag HTML, BODY didn't seem to have any effect I put it in the html head in the <style> tags. To fix I just removed it from the document and changed the above css to:

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html, body{  
    background-color: #000000;
    background-image: url('http://themob.co.cc/images/smoke.png');
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-position: center center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #999999;
}
td,th {
    font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #999999;
}
Now it works with both IE and FF, but the image isn't displaying!
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