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It's more a shuttle, really... I'd slide it down on the priority list, at least for now. Though Braxton identifies it as a "Federation Timeship", I'd consider Relativity ahead of her. Thanks for the Flashback Excelsior! Looking forward to it.
Lee, that TOS bridge rocks. The overhead plan could be very useful...
I've sent the guy a PM via Dewback Wing ASAP - where he posted the link, perhaps he can help in some way.
Bueatiful rendering but the captain's chair looks a bit too close to the helm/nav consoles.
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(WARNING: this hasn't been (de?)bugged for IE yet, so it might look funky is good ol' Explorer).
I'm thinking this is the final design. Unless someone has other good ideas. Now, we have to decide on a final format. How do we display the information? An entry per ship, per class or even per set?
The current mockup has entries per general design of a ship's bridge, although the entries are listed by class. Since bridges are supposed to be modular, I suspect that it's possibly that contemporary ships of the same class may have different bridges. I suggest per-ship entries.
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Good work, Harry. Will the blue palette clash with the TABASCO logo, or are we abandonning that?
I'm good with a per-ship listing, but I'd also like to enclose a chart or something linkable, listing all the ships of a given class together. Part of this project's purpose is to be able to track the differences between the differences between ships. Another chart would track the evolution of set use through the production chonology of the franchise.
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I'm abandoning the TABASCO logo. It's not suited for small sizes at all. Perhaps I'll do a variation on it that is more suited for a small size.
Or perhaps the good Reverend is willing to do a TABASCO logo
If we put it into a database, you can basically sort, group and display the bridges anyway you want: per set, per bridge, per class. So perhaps a better question is, what kind of data fields do we want for each bridge?
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Looks normal in IE6, though that doesn't mean it's identical. Just stay away from new-fangled CSS and everything will be fine.
PHP is no problem for me. On to the database design phase! Here are the fields I see us needing thus far: bridge_pk - this will be an automatically assigned number; you'll see why later category - eg. TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT class - eg. Galaxy, Miranda, Excelsior year - eg. 2370, 2366, 2270, 2151 description overhead_url - Link to overhead view image
The bridge_pk field will be useful particularly for having multiple caps per bridge, since we can have a second table like this: image_pk - another automatically assigned number bridge_fk - corresponds with bridge_pk from the first table image_url - Link to screencap
We'll probably want a third table for news items? news_pk - you guessed it, another auto-assigned number timestamp - 11 bit integer representing the date and time description - the news article itself
Any other fields you want to add to the first table?
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Probably a notes field for bridges. The description field could then be used for an in-universe .. description, and notes for background info.
Oh, and a field for the ship-name. You could make that by using a foreign key too, using NCCs as keys for a 'ship' table. Although that's possibly overkill.
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I like it but is there a way to make the pics of the bridges...er..."clickable" (so they enlarge in their own window)?
Mabye go with just line art- instead of the negative image it is now- in the enlarged version so a viewer could (concievably) make their own bridge.....
Just offering ideas.
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First of all, let me apologize in advance for ressurecting an old thread. I was just curious to see of anything has been done to get this website up and running or has real life intruded to the point of a very good idea gone by the wayside? I noticed that the mockup is down for the time being. Again, very sorry.
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I'm the one who sould be sorry... Yeah, we let this one run out of steam. I'd like to get back on it, and I hope we will, but in the meantime I've got a rather large collection of bridge screencaps. Requests on demand.
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If you can reassemble the team who was doing the overhead line drawings plus figuring out how the screencaps would be arranged and any other details for this very ambitious project. After all, the webspace is available, hopefully the passion is there as well. Mark, just rally the troops. Send the emails for those who said they would do some work on it, decide on how the pages are going to look and upload the damned thing!
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