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[TK bondservnt[501st]]

Lot's of great compliments on the new design theme.

 

I especially like the change for the members who don't have a photo.

the shield design FISD logo.

 

and on that note... would it be possible to have a flash intro or

somthing like that using the shield logo?

 

in our graphic representation that logo being missing kinda

makes me feel funny...

 

the esprit d corps created by that logo should continue!

 

thanks for listening...

[Daetrin[Admin]]

I guess a Flash-ish intro would be fine if someone wanted to volunteer to do one, however given all the security issues with Flash and with the advent of HTML5, I'd like to use either SilverLight or HTML5 as the underpinnings.

[bluehickey]

I could easily make it in Flash, but the issue with having it animated is that it is going to play every single time you switch pages which will just get really annoying having to watch the same animation over and over again without any way to turn it off or stop it. Maybe a more subtle animation of a light glint going across the logo with large gaps of static inbetween the repeated cycle might not make it as annoying.

Edited April 13, 2010 by bluehickey

[TK bondservnt[501st]]

ya know? it could be just DHTML. with the graphic and a background. then FWD to the academy.

it would be just like the old intro. heck... put the old intro facing page up>?

 

having a 10 second flash intro with a server load of less than 100kb is easy.

 

I would like to request the background graphic and the original crossed blaster graphic.

 

then I could post both flash and dynamic html for you to look at and discuss.

 

sound like a plan?

 

just PM me with the URL's of the graphics you would like used.

 

thanks...

 

I just want everyone who FIRST enters the site to see it, and I can code it for viewing a single time

or multiple times.

 

losing that branding makes that logo less important. and I like the logo, and it matches my patches

but now we only see the white ESB celebration image... which is great!!!

 

it's just better to have the detachment logo on the site prominent.

 

microsoft silverlight is not an app that everyone has on their machine

like flash. and you have to use plugins like moon, for linux.

 

those are all "emerging tech." but have not been

introduced as 'mainstream' cross browser, code.

 

it's not as robust as a simple flash swf with no scripting, and no

server access. it's just a static container with no permissions

and no threaded connection. so there is no risk what so ever.

 

html 5.0 is just a doctype. and a scripting format.

which is just the new codebase for developers wanting a plugin

environment that is more cross browser compatiable.

but who needs to write an xml file to make a simple flash

animation.

 

which in this case is backward compatiable to flash 6.

(which nobody has)

 

oh and by the way, the code here would fly on a mobile phone.

 

I'm just wanting to see the Tried and True logo with crossed blasters

on the first page as people enter, then it should FWD to a landing page

on the academy.

 

there is no reason at all why a landing page intro would play each time a page is

loaded.

 

I think just because I said animation, you're getting off track.

and it's not as complicated at all.

 

dhtml is animation with static photos using the users computer to

calculate the DOM (document object model) and then animate

layers or DIV blocks.

 

it uses no scripting plugin. thus we can have animation without server load, or plugin.

 

go ahead, click my link below my banner. it's flash. the whole site is flash.

music, animation and photos, with links to important stuff,

like this site... small, powerful, and no security risk...

 

And here's a flash animation example. (

82.8 KB with the html weighing just 725 bytes (less than a kb of filesize!)

 

The FISD example.

 

I can make it any way you'd want. even have some music... perhaps the imperial march?

 

The FISD example with sound.

233kb swf 745 bytes html

Edited April 16, 2010 by TK Bondservnt 2392