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Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (old topic 2)

Simutrans.com site

This is the new old opic for discussions about our simutrans.com site.

Feel free to:

- make suggestions;
- offer material;
- report errors;
- announce sites (fan and official ones) to be listed here;
- and so on what I can't remember now... ;D


Simutrans.com site progress

Simutrans.com site is receiving some changes:

Index:
- New layout: less blank spaces and more colorful/friendlier.
- New picture (leftside, with trains): I would like someone suggest me something better.

About:
- A link to Kompozer site. (Kompozer is an open-source HTML editor, the same I'm using to edit the site)

Download:
- New link for pak128.Britain
- Nightly Builds

Links:
- Several links for sites were removed (outdated, abandoned or not-working sites, e.g. SimuConfig, Simutrans Music, Screenshot Gallery and Simutrans Archive and more);
- New categories: Fan Simutrans Sites, and Reviews and external sites.

All:
- Stupid green-page bug fixed (see here the screenshot);
- Tiny and cute link-flags for German, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish sites: see page footer.

Preview of upcoming site here: http://www.simutrans.com/newsite

EDIT: Bad writing fixed.


Older topic: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1345.0
New topic: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=11482.0

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #1 –
Good job Igor!
I have a few prompts:
* images in jpeg-format with high compression looks poor. You can use PNG - is better for web-based graphic.
* background color (rgb 102, 102, 204; hex 6666CC) in H4-title (Simutrans is a freeware...) looks on my display very, very crazy  :o

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #3 –

EDIT: i try to use color from link:

In top is original color (#6666CC) and in bottom is "new" (#30406E). I think, new color provides better contrast...

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #4 –
This looks imho ugly too, I think. Why needed to make it like this?

(And those strange MAC-like icons on the download page case more confusion to me than directing me to anything. Also a break under the complete download would be great ...)

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #5 –
I'll be updating the Simutrans.com portal soon. Maybe tomorrow or Monday, so post what you think about the site as fast as you can.

I'd like to ask a little thing: Are you seeing this image at the front page http://www.simutrans.com/newsite ?

That's just a placeholder. I think of substituting it by an image with some locos, convoys and trucks (pak128 or 192) over a transparent background or something like this as shown at http://128.simutrans.com/.

Quote from: prissi – on
This looks imho ugly too, I think. Why needed to make it like this?

What is ugly for you?

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #6 –
What breaks it for me is:

1) Strange colour choice (violet) Sorry, you are changing that!

2) The part saying "download" overlaps the bar in a rather blocky way... no idea how to explain better, it feels like banana boxes stacked together carelessly:

Probably related to having a different height overlapping above and under.

3) The bar itself is too strong a divider; there is "background", "text block" and "header", all of them with adding more horizontal lines, and this adds even more of these. It's just a theory but it begins to look too much like an advertisement.

My projects... Tools for messing with Simutrans graphics. Graphic archive - templates and some other stuff for painters. Development logs for most recent information on what is going on. And of course pak128!

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #7 –
the footer flag link for german

simutrans-germany.com is not a german portal site, is a server home page

this page not included external links
suggestion

tikiwiki german index page

or

german forum

or

a user create a new portal page on simutrans-germany.de

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #8 –
Some minor edits on Simutrans.com:

- Blog and SVNLogs links added;
- Abandoned/death sites removed;
- New fixed and consistent footer;
- Background bug fixed;
- something more.

:arrow: http://www.simutrans.com/index.html

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #10 –
Good. Dark purple banner, as proposed by Tomas, looks better (imho).

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #11 –
I found a few references to http://www.simugraph.com

This domain will seize to exist some time next spring. I moved most of my web stuff to http://www.funkelwerk.de

Maybe you can update the links?

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #12 –
Quote from: Hajo – on
late but maybe it still helps: Yes image is there. Using Mozilla SeaMoneky as browser.

Refresh the page twice (Ctrl+F5) or clean the cache.

And I'm going to empty http://www.simutrans.com/newsite.

 

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #13 –
Download page: There is a 102-2 download for intel and power mac on sourceforge but not on siad page.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #16 –
Thanks!

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #19 –
Could we get the title bar from the blog also for the www.simutrans.com? Imho it looks much better and it should just require some CSS changes. And it would not hurt if www.simutrans.com is tested with Chrome, I find this jumping menubar due to bold change by mouseover quite annoying, but I would like to hear more comments on it.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #23 –
cheers.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round) (about 102.2.2)

Reply #24 –
Another simutrans site update is near. So, I need to know few things:

1) Are there Simutrans complete versions for 102.2.2 available?

2) v102.2.2 is stable?

3) BeOs will no longer be supported by Simutrans DevTeam?

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #25 –
2) It has mostly bugs correction, so yes.

3) Haiku should be full compatible with BeOs,so the programm should run.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #26 –
Well Haiku has a different networking library than BeOS. But since no modern computer can run BeOS (no dual CPU support, no support of meodrn networking chips, ... ) but can run Haiku, I compiled now under Haiku.

I think 102.2.2 is one of the most stable released ever ... but I though the rule was to call something stable after one week testing.

And the complete version should be on sourceforge.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #29 –
Maybe the german link could rather point to "www.simutrans.de"

Simutrans website points to SVN but doesn't tell you the p****word

Reply #30 –
Hi!

I wanted to do some hacking on the latest simutrans source, and I quite easily found the link to the development SVN account from http://www.simutrans.com/development.htm. However I was a little stumped when it asked for a p****word.

After trying combinations of "anonymous" and "guest" to no avail, I dug around on this forum and found the details (username: "anon", p****word: "").

My suggestion is that it would be nice if this info was added to the main website :).

EDIT BY Igor: DONE!

Re: Simutrans website points to SVN but doesn't tell you the p****word

Reply #31 –
yes, this should be mentioned there!
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and maggikraut.

Re: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (2nd round)

Reply #32 –
A new update is near. What's new:

- SVN p****word on public, as said here: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=5258.0
- German link will be www.simutrans.de
- More links in Simutrans Sites page: http://simutrans.com/links.htm
- New screenshots in PakSet gallery: http://simutrans.com/paksets.htm (many of them will be SMSC winners)
- some fixes.

But, to get it done, I will need:

- to know, does the pakJapan (or Pak64Japan) still exist?
- one screenshot of pak96.comic