Official Image Collection - Page 8

Val · #71 January 30th, 2002, 12:59 AM

Using the T1 at work, your pages come up in seconds

I like the page, I recognize some of the race pics, what show were they from? Star Trek Next Gen?

I actually don't have a connection at home at the moment, though I'll be getting a cable connection in the next month or so.

Fyron · #72 January 30th, 2002, 01:04 AM

I got them from BoTF. When I add new races to the Imperium, I'll be using some pictures from MOO2.

Cable modems rock!

The pages load in seconds for me too.

Anybody out there on a dial-up modem want to help me test how long my site takes to load?

I apologize for veering this thread away from the image collection mod, but really, Val started it.

Suicide Junkie · #73 January 30th, 2002, 02:31 AM

Well, with Sympatico, shared over three computers, it took ~30 seconds.

PS: I.F. Are they strict about the

quote:
* All sites with banners must have a 0.25% CTR or greater. Your site must average at least one banner click for every 400 banners displayed.
and
* You may NOT incentivize banner clicks. This has always been our policy, but it is worth repeating. The only approved phrase for referencing your banner is 'Please visit our sponsors.'

thing? When I saw that I went and clicked-through for you

Can I incentivise before they actually get to your site, since I'm not "you"

RE: hit counters. No idea, I've never looked.
Geocities creates a stats page automatically.
It indicates that 72% of people jump to the ImagemodDownloads from this very thread, and a mere 8% come through the main page.

Fyron · #74 January 30th, 2002, 02:37 AM

Whats's Sympatico?

And where did you see that thing about the banner ad needing to be clicked on? I haven't seen it before.

And with all your programing knowledge, I thought you might know how to make a counter. Oh well.

Can you release the program you wrote for making 2000 or so population-based modifiers? That would be a cool utility to have.

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Suicide Junkie · #75 January 30th, 2002, 03:13 AM

Sympatico is Bell's "lets use all the phone-line frequencies not used by voice as a high-speed internet". Basically its a dog-whistle modem, with some filters on your phone jacks just in case.

All the rules are on Spaceport's sign-up page. Are you saying you didn't read the EULA?

Programming yes, internet/HTML stuff: see my homepage. The SE4-ish colourscheme is my fancypants HTML

The pop modifier generator is certainly not anywhere near fit for general use.
I change the hardcode for each use, and the thing is pretty "Red Green" if you know what I mean

I could throw a bunch of text boxes on the screen for input, but dynamically using a fuction typed in by the user is a tad more difficult.
(right now, SY is linear, Prod. is a sinewave)

If I spent a few days on it, I could come up with something presentable, and maybe a dropdown list of common functions to use.

Heh. This reminds me of when I was little, and due to a sentax error, I discovered that I had inadvertently created a program that rewrote bits of itself. Couldn't find a use for it, since the "dynamic" changes had to be hardcoded...

This is an example of an "axe" (see below). Bang a sharp blade onto a stick and you're set. The "tinman" fully-automatic treechopping system takes much longer.

Fyron · #76 January 30th, 2002, 03:18 AM

I read most of the EULA. I didn't notice that the ad banner had to be clicked on every once in a while. I hope they don't enforce that very strictly. I've only been using spaceports since early Dec 2001, so I don't think the ads have loaded very many times.

My "programming" skills are limited to html and a bit of javascript. I have been trying to teach myself php and mysql, but I've been too lazy. Plus, it's hard to find a free web host that will give you a mysql database, so I haven't had much incentive (or chance) to learn it.

So what do you think of my site SJ?

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Suicide Junkie · #77 January 30th, 2002, 03:46 AM

The site is very nice. I think my main problem is having too small of a browser Cache.
I did note that some of the SE4 images are broken. (Planets in Torgal & Ship Minis)
The capital city is remarkable.

Re: Counters. Can you read/write files on your site using javascript? If so, a simple text file, read, add 1, write, would be enough for light traffic ("light traffic" = time for script to complete before the next visitor arrives).

PS: No file updates today, but lots of webpage changes. I need to catch up on sleep, and will get to the submissions tomorrow.

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Loknar · #78 January 30th, 2002, 05:51 AM

Kamikaze Images Credits

The Kamikaze warhead and the resource depot were part of the same kind of thing, so I posted them here at once. I knew that the image collection did not consist of shipsets.

Fyron · #79 January 30th, 2002, 06:29 AM

SJ:

The broken images were there. Their file extensions were capitalized for some reason. They display properly on my local copy on my hard drive, but I guess the spaceports server doesn't like file extensions that are not of the proper syntax. They are fixed now. Thanks for the notification, and thanks for liking my site.

I can't claim credit for the capital city. It is a picture of Romulus that I got it from BoTF, cause I liked it so much.

What do you think of my SEIII shipsets? I think that they're pretty good, especially since I made them by hand in MS Paint. I also made my ISN banner in Paint. That was so much fun.

My knowledge of javascript is mostly limited to copying other scripts and modifying them to suit my purposes. I'm not too good at making them from scratch.

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Re: Counters. Can you read/write files on your site using javascript?

I can use cgi, so I think that could be done. However, I have no clue how to do it.

Do you want a graphical banner for the Image Modpack? I might be able to make something similar to my ISN banner.

Also, I'll add a link to your site on my links page. Do you have a banner or something?

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dogscoff · #80 January 30th, 2002, 11:22 AM

S_J - nice to see your main website updated at Last=-) Looking good. Thanks for the links too. Just in case you weren't aware of my banners, here's a link to them. Given the good-content-rather-than-loads-of-graphics style of your site though (A preference I share BTW) I imagine you knew about the banners and decided not to use them. Which is fine.

BTW, If anyone does pull a hit-counter out of the hat, I'd be very interested in using it. I'm dying to know if anyone actually visits my site...