On 20/05/2010 1:57 AM, Christian Ohm wrote: > On Wednesday, 19 May 2010 at 18:16, Ben wrote: > >> Just thought I could get your opinions on how I could change this for >> the better. Zarel; you have your better screenshots, none of that :P >> > Here you go: > > First, personally I don't like hardcoded HTML tables and stuff, I'd prefer > some > light markup from which both HTML and PDF can be generated for > maintainability. > But then, who does the work decides on the tools. > Show me how to do it in Dreamweaver, and I'll do it for you. ;) > - You don't have an index.html as a starting point (in fact, you don't have > any html files. DOS is dead, you know). > Easily fixable. > - The logo is screwed up (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=doc0181ur.png, > corrupted file it seems), and scaled in the document (which a. might look > worse than using a properly scaled down image, depending on the scaling > the > browser does, and b. needs useless space). > Hmm, I don't have any corruption over here. However, it is scaled down, admittedly. I thought fullsize looked too big for the page. > - Centered text looks bad imo, especially with items > (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=doc0261zt.png), I'd prefer justified > text. > That's easily fixable too. > - Interface: "see XXX" isn't linked (maybe in other places as well). > OK, I can link that. > - Minimap: The view area is not always white. > Really? I never noticed. Then again, Zarel rewrote that page, he probably should've seen that mistake and beaten me for it. > - Ordering units: Action and explanation don't always line up > (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=doc03c1yv.png), also there's a quite > large gap that makes it a bit hard to see what belongs together. > Crap, didn't notice that. > - Why not include the unit experience part as well instead of linking to the > website? > Possible, I can do it. > - The building screenshot is from 2.2, not 2.3. > So I have to take all my screenshots again? Dang. > Well, I haven't looked that much at the later parts, just clicked through. My > general impression is: The centered text is ugly, the navigation on the left > takes up quite a bit of space that might be better used for the content (and > with the hardcoded tables is also included when printing, where it is > completely useless). But if the centered text (and the small stuff) at least > is > fixed, I wouldn't mind including it. > I hardcoded the tables because I don't know how to softcode :P ;) But if someone gave me the code to do it, I could do it...or you could just edit the file I uploaded :P
Sorry about the centered text btw, call it a habit. Having source we can generate PDF and HTML from is really the way to go. PDF does not suffer from the layout issues HTML has. I'm not too sure about this. So, here's the deal. I give the full thing and you change to your needs ;) Well, I've got my to-do list for Manual2.2. > _______________________________________________ > Warzone-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
