Forum and main part of the site are written in PHP. The comics section is written in Perl.

What are the frontends programmed in? PHP?

In that case it depends what you mean by 'update'. For any regular edit or addition, I'm using the same browser-based frontends which are available to every visitor (i.e. you can see them yourself) - which I programmed using a text editor (what else?). If I want to change functionality or logic, I change the backend code again.

Cipherswipe: Ok, let me rephrase that: I don't think connectivity should be an editor feature

Actually, ftp access is becoming somewhat common in text editors. Some have a built-in ftp function, there's even at least one which is specifically designed to edit files remotely (ie, loading & saving files directly from/to ftp, without saving/using a local copy).

Er... I meant to type UPDATE, not upload.

To upload, I use an SSH client, obviously. I don't think connectivity is an editor feature...

Wait a minute. You mean to say, that you upload your site solely with a text editor?

Nifty. Thanks.

If you want to try increase the color difference, you could add these lines:

a:hover {background:black !important;color:white !important;}
a:active {background:white !important;color:black !important;}

...Those will make links turn black with white text when you hover over them & then white with black text while you're clicking them. (You could also use red, orange, blue, etc if you prefer.)

That's better. Thanks.

Well, nothing happens when I click on the download link... but that might be some other problem.

Edit:

Nevermind. Just hard to tell when something is selected or not due to the slight color change.

GO- Try this:

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.goodolddays.net) {
div {overflow:auto !important; background:#ddd !important;}
#gamesmenu, #gamesmenu-shadow {height:120px !important;}
#subpages-shadow {top:124px !important; height:80px !important;}
#main {top:230px !important;}
}

(Again, play around with the specific numbers until it looks good for you, all I can do from this end is take an educated guess.)

Blue. No, red! Aaaaaaaaaargh!

Found a glitch with that style change. I can't click on the Download link. You know, for the longest time I had assumed Mr Creosote didn't have any download option for games, because I could never see them.

Alright. Well... what's your favorite color?

Sorry, I don't think I'm competent to answer this question. The last time I tried one was more than ten years ago, so I doubt I could do any of them justice

That may be, but I can't say I've had this specific problem with other abandonware sites.

So if you were to use a web editor, which would you choose?

Exactly, which is why they're not an option. As I said at the beginning of the thread, using fixed size menus on TGOD was a conscious choice. I'm very well aware of how it works differently and on pretty much all other sites I'm responsible for, I'm using relative sizes only. I already pointed out the reasons for not doing so here.

Zooming the site works. Overriding styles works. Turning off styles works. Sites which are built using any such 'editors' usually don't allow for any of that to work properly. So in the end, TGOD is already way more flexible.

Those progs are generally known as WYSIWYG editors (What You See Is What You Get).

I believe what he meant was that such progs usually include things and/or use a different method, which results in the pages being more scalable. Someone using a text editor COULD apply all those same techniques, but usually don't.
Of course, those editors always create a great deal of useless bloat, and most of them useoutdated and/or crappy /hackish code.

It can if you don't know what you're doing.

...and (for the tenth time or so), this is exactly how TGOD looks if you turn off CSS.


Bullshit. Those programs are just frontends. A frontend can never be more capable than applying the same settings by hand.


I'm not. I have already named a couple of easy ways to work around your problem. In addition, I pointed out that due to me following good design practices, you're able to do whatever you want with the site. Which, by the way, won't be the case on most sites.


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