jodys — Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:32:00 +0000

hey JP the beta site looks great not too sure about the folder tabs on the left side... but the top is awesome

and how come i don't get notified via email

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shai1 — Tue, 06 Jul 1999 02:09:00 +0000

Check out this corner piece.
http://www.blacklightdesign.com/cortopleft.gif
I think it's more what you are looking for.
Good Luck

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Blur — Mon, 05 Jul 1999 20:11:00 +0000

Whoa.. thanks, it's perfect! I'm going to implement that now.. thanks again! If anyone has a suggestion on how to display my features better on the hosting page, I'd be happy to hear it.

Blur — Sun, 04 Jul 1999 18:44:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments

I like the buttons how they are kinda, they were much worse before, but I'm pleased with them now. These corners... agh, so frustrating, those corners should infact be antialiased, I thought I did that when I saved them, but maybe not =\

shai1 — Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:19:00 +0000

Carolyn is correct. You are going to want to use an anti-alias function when creating the corners. It will hide the "stepping" look you have now.

My comments...I think the new site looks much better than the first. I think with a couple of little tweeks you will have a great looking site. I love that the site is easy to navigate. Down sides with the site that I see are the corners like everyone else has discused. The only other thing I see that needs some work is the your buttons. They seem to be too compressed. I mentioned one other time to another person here that buttons are usually better off in .gif format. I think if you resave your buttons as .gifs they will look much much better. Thats my advice, take it or leave it!
Good luck with the site!

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JP Stones — Sun, 04 Jul 1999 00:58:00 +0000

I have managed curves without jagged edges on what-next.com/beta
It is a gif.
JP

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Blur — Sat, 03 Jul 1999 23:42:00 +0000

Sorry I haven't replied recently, I totally forgot I started this discussion

Take a peek at blurzero.com (still not a released / functional site), I think that the corners have finally been fixed! Thanks to Carolyn for the suggestion, and Grandmaster for doing it before I could stop being lazy and try it

I'd love it if you guys could take a peek now, and give me anymore suggestions. Also, I'm looking for a good, simple whois script, that's very easy to install without all that chmod stuff.. unless it has good documentation... any suggestions? Thanks!

Carolyn Jones — Sat, 03 Jul 1999 20:09:00 +0000

Hi again Blur!
ok, here's the scoop.
Unless Photoshop has changed since my older version 4 it's impossible to make a nice circle (without jaggies) in indexed/256 colors -- you can only use antialies option in RGB/millions of colors format. Start with a fresh blank screen -- high res 300+ dpi, make your circle (if you can't get a clean sharp circle experiment with other stuff like a 300 pt round dingbat or a "o" in some round font like "avant garde". crop your circle perfectly then reduce it to what ever point size your whole circle is -- may work at 100% but Im not sure . Save the image in gif format if you like but not until the very end.

take care,
Carolyn

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Grandmaster — Sat, 03 Jul 1999 04:20:00 +0000

Hey Blue, I fexed the corner for you, (one of them, just rotate it around) its at http://www.21studios.com/test/cornerblur.gif it no longer has the green in it...I can rotate all of them if you like...
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Brian Farkas — Sat, 03 Jul 1999 03:01:00 +0000

Two other suggestions-
1.) Save all those files as gifs... For the text because gifs save text better without pixelation and for the corners because they do not need to have all the colors of a JPEG.
2.) Don't just use the default font! Use Arial or Veranda.

It's improving, but still not quite there yet... . Sorry, just being honest.

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