[Coco] New CoCo site and ftp

Mon Mar 22 01:46:59 EDT 2010

Hi Brian,

Nice site! The ftp is great, thanks :)

Just some constructive feedback...

The Scribed docs all load at once and kinda slow things down a fair bit.

If you create a thumbnail image of each article, then do something like
this:

<html>
<head>
    <script language="javascript">
      var articlelLeft = Math.floor((screen.availWidth - 830) / 2);
      var articleTop = Math.floor((screen.availHeight - 540) / 2);
    </script>
</head>
<body>

<img src="mlbasic1.png"
onclick="window.open('mlbasic1.html','mlbasic1','status=0,toolbar=0,menubar=
0,scrollbars=0,location=0,resizable=1,width=820,height=540,top='+articleTop+
',left='+articleLeft+'')"/>

</body>
</html>

(html tags just shown for where to put code in your main page).

This will open a new window, center it on the screen, remove all the
toolbars, allow the window to be resized and load the document they clicked
on.

Just create a html doc for each Scribd document and add the scribd
object/embed code in each one.

This way the articles are only loaded when the user clicks on them and the
page will load a lot more quickly.

They look like great articles, I'll be sure to have a read of them sometime.

If you need any help getting it to work, let me know, happy to help.

For you first site it's a really good effort, well done!

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com
[mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com]On Behalf Of Brian Blake
Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 11:57 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: [Coco] New CoCo site and ftp

Greetings all,

With the apparent demise of the cocohut website, and the necessity of my
having to learn web design, I figured my first non-work related web site
would be CoCo related. So, I went and created my first real web site, random
rodder's coco den <http://coco.randomrodder.com>. There's a few articles
from Rainbow, some technical documents,basic  synopsis of the various CoCo
models, a gallery of my CoCo collection, etc... I'll also do occasional
reviews of products, the first one being Roy's RGB -> VGA adapter, and the
next one being Cloud9's 512k upgrade kit. Some of the material is stored
offsite (scrib'd). There are various techniques used throughout the site,
simply testing the waters and various coding techniques.

Also, when he finds the time, Briza will contributing thru his own
sub-domain with game reviews. His pages are already set up, just waiting for
his first review.

Finally, there is also an ftp section. address: ftp.randomrodder.com ; user:
anonymous at randomrodder.com and no password. YOU NEED AN FTP CLIENT to access
it - my ISP does not support FTP over HTTP. I use the FileZilla ftp client;
I'm sure most CoCo enthusiasts already have some sort of an ftp client
anyhow.

I don't know how serious my ISP is when they say unlimted bandwidth, but, I
guess I'll find out. Considering the size of the CoCo group, I doubt I'll be
in too much danger, but, you never know...

Considering this is my first web site, I'd appreciate constructive feedback,
so, have at it!!!

Brian

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