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I thought you were probably around the same age as me, which is only 2 years. But of course when I found out, at the time you were just 16. The difference between 16 and 18 is greater than between 18 and 20. I don't think I was as young as 11 when I started, but I know for certain it was in primary school and I was probably 12 when I started playing around with game maker. The game I uploaded in the downloads manager I made when I was 13. Shame I gave it up. I have some real nice ideas from time to time.

Haha ok :) I'm considering adding bbcode but I'm also thinking against it. The reasoning being sometimes members go and upload to really sucky image hosts, for example photobucket (and i say that based on how many 'not found' thumbnails I see from photobucket). So in order to prevent all images being lost, may be wiser to only allow uploaded images.

@Franklin: dubealex, admin of creation asylum is 30. @Isaac: yea I get what you mean. I thought you were older before I discovered your age anyway.

Urban dictionary is new the oxford dictionary.

I can't find any good music anywhereeeee. I haven't sync'd my ipod for like a year a half. Its a sad story.

Lol I know. The height is defined in CSS that I copied from another part of the site that makes all textareas that height. I'll make it heaps smaller :P I also plan to impose a char limit.

Haha of course. BBCode is essential. It was always going to be a feature. There's going to an rgss tag which is specific to ruby code. I've already got the system setup and the syntax highlighting set to the same as the RPG Makers, as you'll see in the RGSS archives. At the moment I'm probably thinking of specific bbcode only, just a limit amount and 'necessary' bbcodes. I know I showed this prematurely, being without design people won't pay that much attention to it. Has potential though. We could start adding tutorials now if we wanted to. I haven't even started on the in-tutorial view :D

I lol'd, but isn't mercury a liquid at room temperature? That would leave a dirty mark on the floor.

Its not really off-topic. Yeah HTML is pretty simple, but thats not to say it can't get complicated. By itself it is simple, but you have to write it within the limits of CSS too to achieve your design. I only ever write html in php, but it is very simple to mix. One trick I picked up worth mentioning is the following: <php $variable='This is going to mixed somewhere in the html' ?> <div>This is html</div> <div><?=$variable?></div> <span>Oooh more html</span> This is opposed to using the following which is slightly longer <? echo $variable ?> If it wasn't for this site, I'd have never learned PHP. Without that type of motivation, I'm sure its particularly difficult. Though as long as you have a goal of what to achieve, and the means to go out and learn how to achieve it (eg google), then you're all set to learn. For example the project cards component (in the 'Other' menu) was made during the week the site went down. I suddenly had the idea but had no idea how to do it, or if it was even possible.

Lol. I actually like the style, the thick outline. I've had the same avatar for 5 years. Did you guys know there's a sister... To be honest, I think in the start I was going for that whole avatar symbolizing the site kind of thing. That's because I was copying Creation Asylum, the admins avatar is the sites favicon (icon you see when you bookmark a site). But like I said, only in the beginning. It would feel wrong to change it now though.

Haha, I suppose you really need to get in there and test it. It is sad though, that only 2 members have actually seen inside of it. I suppose then its fortunate I make these things out of boredom, otherwise I'd have no motivation at all. Nope, haven't got that far. There will be a sortof 'dashboard' where members can easily access there tutorial instead of searching through the categories. But, members will be able to see there unpublished tutorials as normal tutorials (with indications that it is unpublished) so they can easily preview it. Oh, and I do plan on a second navigational system on the side of the page. The breadcrumbs may not be ideal for all, but at the moment thats the only way to navigate through the system. I think it works fine, but categories down the side will help too, and that's probably a good place to have a search box too. I just had the best idea ever for tags :P Ok I gave in and added some CSS in the process of making the quick edit, but again this isn't final! I suppose since you're probably the only one to look, I'll post a screenie: Ok kellessdee, I made the quick edit for you :) Go in and test it out if you like. Hopefully if I find more time for this I'll start getting into some features we discussed in the other topic :) I'm gona do a lot of UI research for the design. I want it to look nice and professional.

A quick edit system is much easier to make :lol: I think what I'll do is when you click edit that will display a textfield where you can edit it. With that quick form will be a full edit button, just like the forums posting system. Making a tutorials component was tricky because I thought, how do you categorize content fields when there is no defined content? The steps idea was the solution, and this allows you to write your tutorial straight into the system. Since there are no steps when you make it, its automatically unpublished and allows you to work on your tutorial until you think its ready. Writing it offline first does not suit the system. If we add members (who are gone) tutorial from this site, it will take time to divide them into steps because generally they don't list the sections are steps. Though we could paste a tutorial into one step and hide the step titles, it would look the same. So yeah, the steps should make it easier to write and read tutorials, if only by a small margin. If you write them offline you're typing into a text editor anyways, I don't there's too much difference if you're just typing into a textfield (and these will be expandable, I'll show you that soon hopefully). I've only written tutorials offline to either quickly save my work, or so they didn't show up on the forums half way through when I wanted to save.

Haha, I often use that reference when I forget the exact syntax for something. I just read one of the intros and I think its definitely worth a read: http://diveintohtml5.org/introduction.html I learned html just by writing I think. I use dreamwear so it auto-completes or shows you what css you can use, what elements inside tags, etc. So I know most basic html by heart just by messing around and writing things for the site. I started writing components from basically no knowledge, and thats how I learnt.

Being a webdevloper sucks. Everything changes all the time and you have to create websites to support an array of browsers. Does anyone else miss IE's monopoly?! Just kidding, I couldn't think of any other intro to a few links I found to introduce HTML5 and CSS3 and getting compatibility in a few browsers. Learning HTML5 Html5Doctor Dive into HTML 5 IE support for browsers Html5Shim CSS3 in IE Css3Pie

Yeah at the moment it is a little bit confusing, there needs to be some documentation or perhaps for the members first ttorial, on page help instructions. I will include little ? icons to describe textboxes as well. That's a good idea.... But I'm thinking, should that replace the other method of editing steps? Or should it be just the textbox to make quick tweaks to the text? What do you think? I've been avoiding ajax with this one, but what I'm thinking now is when you click edit the form slides down, and we you click save it saves to the database automatically and the page doesnt even move. I can even do ajax uploads and have the files appear after they're uploaded (as with the project cards). That will sync the media system of manually pasting the codes into the main textbox. They're actually rows in the database. To add/remove takes less than a second :P

Lol what is the issue? You can make them...Marked? [pause] I crack you guys up dont deny it.

I think RMXPU should have a mascot. I kind of like the tiki idea and having 2 of them, like the screenie below (which of course we can't use because its someone elses work). Post your RMXPU mascot ideas :D

Thanks for your feedback :D Ah yeah. Aside from adding steps, that's probably a good idea. Of course steps allow you to stop your work and come back to it, and you can progressively move back to it (and there were be an ajax system of changing their order). The reason why the create page and the edit tutorial page (excluding steps) is different is because, those new fields came after I made the create page :P I thought about this quite a bit, and its sort of dilemma. When you're making your step, you actually need to save it and reload several times before actually leaving the page. The reason for this is your media. Once you type your step up, you need to save it. Once you upload media the page reloads. Then you'll probably add in the media code to your text and need to save it again. Therefore saving the step and going back to the main edit page is impracticable. However thinking about it just now, adding media could goto a whole new page? I don't know which method would be easier for our tutorial authors... Yup, I just made up the categories off my head at the time. It's not a definitive list. Haha yeah, designing and writing CSS for me takes a long time, because I (think) I know what looks good but I'm not a designer so I spend a lot of time on it. Those forms are the only thing on the page with attached CSS, everything else is default html. Secondly I want to completely redesign the look of this site so there's no existing CSS/design styles I can utilize for this. Maybe I should try and make it in the same style as the website..

Ah yeah, thats why I'm suggesting we hold off a bit. I want to upgrade the page a bit, then hopefully we can spread a userbar around in peoples signatures.

Good work guys! There's been a ton of new signatures of the last couple of days. If we can sustain the roll on and get a few more, I'll start advertising around the site and upgrade the page to make it look more professional. And, and we should make a banner thingy for peoples signatures and really get it to spread. But again, lets get a few more signatures first :P Lol whatever, that's the last reason I'd give up for, especially for a petition. Thanks for your signature though :alright:

Lol yeah, post ANYTHING you want. I actually wanted you guys to test the system of creating a tutorial, and to do that you need to actually create it so I can see if its being tested... For the engine type thing, you mean just the style doesn't really fit in? And yeah it does goes in non-engine specific, I decided to place it randomly due to there being no appropriate 'type' category. These categories are off the top of my head, they're in no way final. I remember that tutorial. In fact I meant to move some of your tuts to the official tuts forum, but this system will make such a feature (that feature being featured tuts) a breeze. Your tutorial doesn't really utilize the system fully, but I added in the 'Show step titles' (will hide/show step 1, step 2 etc.) for those types of tutorials where those steps titles aren't necessary, such as yours where's its the one image. :) I wana see at least 10 tuts in there :yes: seriously go spam-happy I don't care. It will be deleted anyway.

@madanchi: it shouldn't look good lol I only just touched on design @Franklin: yup I agree, we need way more VX content. I'm kinda disappointed no one tried it out yet. That's the point of the topic. I don't want tuts coz I'm going to delete this anyway, just screw around with it. K thx.