Spinner

The spinner is horribly out of date now and there appears to be no one around who can do anything about it. If no one steps up to fix it I am going to remove it. Thoughts on that and what to replace it with?

what spinner? the members one on the front page?

I'm trained in flash if we've got the original file I can change or ad members

I'll message Doug and see if he has the original file.

No luck with the file so far. Do you have interest in starting from scratch, doesn't have to be anything wonderful. I am itching to change it or just take it down.

hmmm I'm not sure. I just got a job, I start monday and I'm in school too, so free time is looking slim, however it wouldn't be hard to make a little slide show of members with Javascript thats super easy to edit

Sounds better than what we have. Might be better to to have pics and no names etc so we don't have it go out of date super fast.

maybe more of a club showcase then a club member showcase. Thoughts?

anyone have any final words for the spinner...should we hold a service...

I don't have much of an opinion, my ad blocker actually won't show me the spinner anyway, so I don't see it xD

There I killed it...Now we can use it to post coming games and whatnot with small posters!

might be a good idea to post game updates on the home page again maybe?

I am thinking of getting rid of the posters like the CQC one from last year on the portal page. It has a news section anyway that keeps the most active threads at the top so a generic poster there would probably be the best. Just using the spot where the spinner was to keep people updated seems like a better spot as everyone has to look at the forum index page.

Looks good Mikhail. If we keep them to that size we could stack a few in there. WOOT!

Hey that was quick! Thanks man...Heres another one.

Maybe we should do some Area Banners...100 Mile could maybe mention our games every weekend during summer...you guys can mention CQC stuff...that sort of thing.

promote the areas, as well as specific games.

Quesnel Airsoft...'our beer tastes better' (I am just spitballing here )

The banner doesnt link to a site? Bleh...no biggee

Also ...there appears to be a little bit of code showing at the bottom...
"http://new.meadhall.info/mike/airsoft/mayday2banner.gif"

as an admin you have the exact same powers as I do. I'll PM you with what I am doing and I am sure you will be able to do more good in there than me.

Can you make a gif? Then we can take a banner or two from each club and have it just flip through.

That makes sense...ok, I will use my mighty admin powers and snoop around. ... now where did dave put that waskely banner function....hmmmm

Figured I would post this for other Admins to see how to do it as well.

to change the banner I am doing the following

administration pannel -bottom of page
display-tab at top
Under the homepage setting on the site - generalities
you should then see the text I am editing. I put in the image address and added the

We should lay down some guidelines for posting banners to keep it clean up there interms of space and look.

I like the size and my browser makes it look like it could be even wider. If they are wider is that enough room that each group (100 MILE, quesnel, PG, Chetweosjdsfwer) could each have a spot and fit things side by side if they have two banners to put up?

Either way I am going to bed, have fun in the admin pannel.

Will do...I am thinking that what would be best is to just show one banner (randomly) at a time, so the front page doesn't get taken over with banner stuff.

I will see if there is some 3rd party html tools to do this. A animated gif could work for a couple but adding on to it would be a pain.

http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/image/random.html

Here is one method. It does remind me that it would be nice to have the banners stored on THIS server for management purposes and some control over what suddenly appears...

Can we use a gallery for banners to centralize their storage? I can't seem to find a gallery 'upload' function.

Any javascript programmers wanna give this a shot?

Ok the banner is now clickable. 'nuff for tonight.

Looks like the maximum width for the banner is around 804 pixels. That brought the height (proportionally) 100 px. So 800 x 100 (or narrower) would be a good guideline.

I am not the HTML wizard but if you want photostorsge the photo bucket account is always there.

I put up the CQC one just for size testing. MS paint (you can make fun of me later) says it's 800 by 100.