YSRnRY: Ideas wanted
Nick Humphries
Webmaster's Block. Anyone got any suggestions as to what I should focus on
next? At the moment all I can think of are:
* Java games (YS HyperCapers is partly done, but I haven't worked on it this
year...)
* Flash Movies (haven't got enough ideas to make another one of those yet)
* Readers Letters (might be popular, but going through 93 sets of Letters
pages will be bloody boring to scan)
* A full tips archive (would be bloody useful but, again, boring and time
consuming to build)
* Yet more articles
Any other ideas/suggestions? What do you lot think I should concentrate on?
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la haine
message <eqvv8torrdc4ldjuf...@4ax.com>:
>* Readers Letters (might be popular, but going through 93 sets of
>Letters pages will be bloody boring to scan)
>
>
>* Yet more articles
>
>Any other ideas/suggestions? What do you lot think I should concentrate
>on?
These two.
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Nick Humphries <ni...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
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> * Readers Letters (might be popular, but going through 93 sets of Letters
> pages will be bloody boring to scan)
> * Yet more articles
Letters and other articles. Particularly Pssst! and 'complete guide to'
features.
Steve
james mcconnell
how about an archive of ernie the pychotic madman
or maybe a big piccie of the "your sinclair, its crap! (in a funky skillo
kind of way)" t-shirt logo. (i always wanted that t-shirt...sob)
jamie
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Nick Humphries <ni...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
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cozza
<ni...@the-den.clara.net> wrote:
>After close to three and a half years working on the site, I've got
>Webmaster's Block. Anyone got any suggestions as to what I should focus on
>next? At the moment all I can think of are:
>
>* Java games (YS HyperCapers is partly done, but I haven't worked on it this
>year...)
>
>* Flash Movies (haven't got enough ideas to make another one of those yet)
>
>* Readers Letters (might be popular, but going through 93 sets of Letters
>pages will be bloody boring to scan)
>
>* A full tips archive (would be bloody useful but, again, boring and time
>consuming to build)
>
>* Yet more articles
>
>Any other ideas/suggestions? What do you lot think I should concentrate on?
>
Definitely readers letters if you can be bothered - always good for a
laugh...
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Nick Humphries
Pssst! is an excellent idea...
The Complete Guides are already up there.
Nick Humphries
<zomb...@horrorfan.ANYWEAPONSfsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>how about an archive of ernie the pychotic madman
Already up there, or rather, you view the scans of the series held by WOS via
my website.
james mcconnell
Nick Humphries <ni...@the-den.clara.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:33:15 -0000, "james mcconnell"
> <zomb...@horrorfan.ANYWEAPONSfsnet.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >how about an archive of ernie the pychotic madman
>
> Already up there, or rather, you view the scans of the series held by WOS
via
> my website.
okay, so i'm bad for not checking properly (blush)..but i'll go straight
there now..i promise
jamie
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Steve Farrell
> Pssst! is an excellent idea...
>
> The Complete Guides are already up there.
>
Oh. Yes. Yes they are. Sorry.
Steve
spi...@freenet.co.uk
> After close to three and a half years working on the site, I've got
> Webmaster's Block. Anyone got any suggestions as to what I should focus on
> next? At the moment all I can think of are:
> * Java games (YS HyperCapers is partly done, but I haven't worked on it this
> year...)
> * Flash Movies (haven't got enough ideas to make another one of those yet)
There should be planty of ideas for flash movies in this newsgroup...
Just use common threads and the foplklore FAQ for inspiration.
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Jeff Braine
> >> * Yet more articles
Letters would be great for those people who wrote to the magazine.
An archive of doodlebugs, Ernie and KLTS would be kinda cool too.
Pssst isn't a bad idea :)
A more long-term objective might be more cross-links with other sites
perhaps - links to remade versions of games (though with remakes sites
dying/reshuffling/moving this might be a high-maintenence thing) for
instance (not biassed at all am I)...
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Nick Humphries
<je...@mailbox.gu.edu.au> wrote:
>On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Nick Humphries wrote:
>
>> >> * Yet more articles
>
>Letters would be great for those people who wrote to the magazine.
Coming soon... (but then I ALWAYS say that...)
>An archive of doodlebugs, Ernie and KLTS would be kinda cool too.
Doodlebugs and Ernie are already up there (well, a viewer for the
scans stored on WOS, anyway) - look up the Scans index. KLTS will go
with the Letters.
>Pssst isn't a bad idea :)
To be done after the Letters - now found a scanning technique which
makes this a lot easier to do.
>A more long-term objective might be more cross-links with other sites
>perhaps - links to remade versions of games (though with remakes sites
>dying/reshuffling/moving this might be a high-maintenence thing) for
>instance (not biassed at all am I)...
Yeah, I've been thinking about doing something like that for a long
time, it's just the maintenance that's been putting me off - I really
can't be arsed tracking the existence of a whole load of URLs,
especially stuff on places like Geocities and Fortunecity which are
BOUND to be moved/made extinct sooner or later.
When it comes to generating and maintaining the YSRnRY, I like
everything to be done as automatically as possible - it's a very large
site (1,900 pages right now), and having to do manual maintenance for
even a small proportion of those pages is a hassle (this is also why
I'm a little more averse to adding links to my website, preferring to
link to a few big names, and have the FAQ handle the rest). Maybe when
I have more time on my hands...
[Actually, come to think about it, now that I have a shell account
(with the web server) I can somehow automatically monitor if a URL is
unavailable and remove links to it from the YSRnRY... hmmm... food for
thought, but nothing will happen for a while yet]
HajoSpuunup
>* Flash Movies (haven't got enough ideas to make another one of those
>yet)
>
Your site is really great and I love the flash movies. Especially that Ping
Pong one. However, I have to be careful at work 'cos if I go to your site
without turning the sound down then the tune on the flash movies (Soul
Bossanova iirc?) will suddenly blare out of the speakers, leading to
bemused looks from my colleagues...all rather embarrassing...
Not actually your fault - more of a problem with flash in that you can't
switch off the sound. But, ummm, something to think about anyway.
Ok so I can just turn off the sound in windows but im too lazy and I
*always* forget...
hajo
Derek Jolly
<Xns905164A62haj...@158.152.254.71>, wrote
>Ok so I can just turn off the sound in windows but im too lazy and I
>*always* forget...
My machine just sits with all sound muted, so I don't get any embarrassing
noises emanating from my PC. Does the job nicely, without having to
remember to switch it off.
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HajoSpuunup
>hajos...@yahoo.com (HajoSpuunup), in message
><Xns905164A62haj...@158.152.254.71>, wrote
>
>>Ok so I can just turn off the sound in windows but im too lazy and I
>>*always* forget...
>
>My machine just sits with all sound muted, so I don't get any
>embarrassing noises emanating from my PC. Does the job nicely, without
>having to remember to switch it off.
Ahh but I like sound - I like it when my PC goes "bing" when a mail arrives
...
hajo
Nick Humphries
wrote:
I've got my machine to give a PC speaker beep when email comes in,
rather than play a sound file through the sound card. Can't remember
how I did it, mind...
Nick Humphries
wrote:
>
>Your site is really great and I love the flash movies. Especially that Ping
>Pong one. However, I have to be careful at work 'cos if I go to your site
>without turning the sound down then the tune on the flash movies (Soul
>Bossanova iirc?) will suddenly blare out of the speakers, leading to
>bemused looks from my colleagues...all rather embarrassing...
Bookmark http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/cover1.htm if you want to go directly
to the contents page. The page on http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/ will always
just be an entrance presentation page, so will contain virtually no
useful information whatsoever.
Darren Salt
It falls over when mail arrives? :-)
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wibbled on for an age:
> hajos...@yahoo.com (HajoSpuunup), in message
> <Xns905164A62haj...@158.152.254.71>, wrote
>
> >Ok so I can just turn off the sound in windows but im too lazy and I
> >*always* forget...
>
> My machine just sits with all sound muted, so I don't get any embarrassing
> noises emanating from my PC. Does the job nicely, without having to
> remember to switch it off.
My soundcard doesn't seem to work anymore.
Chris
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HajoSpuunup
>> Ahh but I like sound - I like it when my PC goes "bing" when a mail
>> arrives ...
>
>It falls over when mail arrives? :-)
>
Well, it *is* Windows - I'm just happy if I can get the machine to boot to
be honest...
Biggo
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