by If you want to see the current test site, hit up https://www.yeoldeinn.com/inntest/.
I've said elsewhere, but the existing YeOldeInn website outside of the forum is 70 pages in more or less (often less) 15 different translations, with two site archives. We're cutting back (sort of) from 1000+ pages on the main site to just the 70, but about half of most of those pages is actually boilerplate page template code. Getting this right is a big job, but it's half the work of the 70 or so pages. When the public facing part of this is done, I'll have something to show you all.
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Stylesheet (80%) - Header components
- Footer components
- Expanding HeroQuest
- Dedication/legal (75%)
- Best viewed/badges (99%, need to fix links)
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- Graphics
- Vector main site logo
- Vector Search button
- Vector HTML5/CSS3/JS badges
- Vector background that's harms contrast less (thx StratosVX!)
- Vector gold bar buttons
- Higher-res replacements for game/expansion GIFs (10%)
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- Webfonts (85%)
- Accessibility controls (45%)
- PHP templatee infrastructure (90%)
- Modern SEO (40%)
The template for the site is fully HTML5 now. It works on mobile. (Press F12 and then click the phone/desktop button that pops up to be able to change the page size easily to test.) The page content doesn't because I'm still working on infrastructure/template for a first phase. There's a second phase that later on which is adequately explained by the fact https://www.yeoldeinn.com/inntest/layout.html shows the site to have four separate nav sections per page, in addition to looking rather GeoCities-like.
Phase 1 is get the site's basic structure modernized. Phase 2 will be porting all the content to the new site. At that point, drathe may be ready to deploy it to replace what we've got now. Phase 3 will be redoing the site template to make things easier find, add to, etc.
The SVG backgroundS (there are two) are finished. The first one is a 200px square checkerboard with noise in colors that kind of look parchmenty (so like agins-parchment2.gif, the current background on most pages.) Then, StratosVX helped me center the converted eps files from HeroScribe, I rescaled them to 50 units each and plugged them into the same 3x3 grid pattern as the gif. I then took advantage of the fact that this is Kaos, ve don't zzzzt here! Er, I mean, this is vector rendering and we have an alpha channel. The icons are a watermark laid on top of the checkerboard pattern so that what's actually repeating visually is a little less distracting for doing so. It's a clever little hack.
Webfonts are coming. Dark mode will be first since if I'm gonna read the webfonts during development, I'm personally gonna need the extra contrast of dark mode first.
CSS and HTML both could use a little cleanup but they're getting there. So could the PHP but you can't see that yet. I intend that to change since I could literally put this code in a git repo somewhere for y'all to check out and poke at as you like. I'm probably gonna have to be able to log into cpanel for setting that up if drathe doesn't want to take the time to learn git and the cpanel method for setting that up for deployment. Come to think of it, I need to learn the cpanel method of deploying a git website. Future…
I think I'll give it one more pass on the template and CSS after I've had some sleep and then see if I can fix up that page content. I mean, the template HTML is probably as good as it's gonna be, SEO notwithstanding. The CSS maybe needs a little more, but it's mostly there too. Oh, get a good look at the comparison between the MotM button I left in the component nav as it compares to my CSS buttons if you want them both within easy reach for comparison. I'm dropping that in my next push to the server in a day or two.
(already made) might work as an appropriate alternative.
