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Hi Scooter! Yes, your help would be appreciated... I'm pretty toughed out here with other responsibilities and priorites, and I apologize again for dropping the ball. But TABASCO does need a kick in the pants to get a workable version running.
Tell you guys what... THIS WEEKEND, I'll put up a screencap collection of no fewer than ten ships to start us off, caps and full-sized pics. We'll turn it over to interested HTML parties and get SOMETHING working. We'll improve it incrementally from there.
Now - with regards to the TABASCO logo, perhaps we shoudl use it as a watermark or something? Thoughts?
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I've got both. What we were waiting for was for me to sort through all the raw images and select the most representative caps for each bridge, make thmubnails for 'em, and then we could make the requisite HTML to link to one through the other. The ZIP file contains both the caps and the full-sized pictures.
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Now you'll need some HTML to properly display them, I guess...? (otherwise, what are the thumbnails meant for?)
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It's only another template of mine with different colors. Although I'm slightly colorblind, so it might actually look like shit...
Since we're calling it TABASCO, we might as well go for a TABASCO-like style. And it's certainly a break from the everpresent white-on-black Star Trek sites.
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I was about to utter an indignant "HEY!" at that last bit, but then I saw you linked to me on the main page, so I'm mollified. Design looks good. 8)
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Got Mark's email, and I'm still here to help. I'm no designer so I leave that to Harry and anyone else who wants to chip in their two cents. Writing the code to power the site is my specialty. But I don't want to get into that until we've settled on a design. I like Harry's layout and styling (do you hang out at ALA too?), but the green is a bit hard on the eyes (well, mine anyway). I'll go with whatever the majority wants.
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I 'hang out' on ALA as in 'I read it'. This particular design uses a few of their tricks (the rounded divs, for example).
A database-driven approach would indeed be the easiest way to maintain a site like this, but I'm not sure what, if any, server-side scripting Lee's host supports (since we were planning in hosting it at http://tabasco.phasers.net ). Although judging from that link, there's a cgi-bin folder, mich makes me think 'Perl!'.
I'm more of a PHP man myself, so I won't be of much help with Perl.
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The account allows all sorts of bells and whistles. We have a photo album set up on the site, using Gallery, so I had to learn all about CHMODing to get it working (which it does now, very nicely). Basically you need to find out exactly what you need in terms of script support and I'll find out if it's available. The account plan I'm on isn't one they sell anymore - although I'm allowed to keep renewing it - but I think it supports CGI, Perl, PHP, SSI, C/C++, maybe one MySQL database. . . Likewise, I don't know how much control the FTP account I set up for TABASCO allows, so it may be that I have to do any CHMODing that goes on to make the site work.
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