Author Topic: Simutrans site - www.simutrans.com (old topic 2) (Read 57002 times)

IgorEliezer · « **on:** October 04, 2009, 01:39:43 PM »

Simutrans.com site

This is the ~~new~~ old opic for discussions about our simutrans.com site.

Feel free to:

- make suggestions;
- offer material;
- report errors;
- announce sites (fan and official ones) to be listed here;
- and so on what I can't remember now...

Simutrans.com site progress

Simutrans.com site is receiving some changes:

Index:
- New layout: less blank spaces and more colorful/friendlier.
- New picture (leftside, with trains): I would like someone suggest me something better.

About:
- A link to Kompozer site. (Kompozer is an open-source HTML editor, the same I'm using to edit the site)

Download:
- New link for pak128.Britain
- Nightly Builds

Links:
- Several links for sites were removed (outdated, abandoned or not-working sites, e.g. SimuConfig, Simutrans Music, Screenshot Gallery and Simutrans Archive and more);
- New categories: Fan Simutrans Sites, and Reviews and external sites.

All:
- Stupid green-page bug fixed (see here the screenshot);
- Tiny and cute link-flags for German, Portuguese, Japanese and Spanish sites: see page footer.

Preview of upcoming site here: http://www.simutrans.com/newsite

EDIT: Bad writing fixed.

Older topic: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=1345.0
New topic: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=11482.0

Tomas · « **Reply #1 on:** October 04, 2009, 02:53:43 PM »

Good job Igor!
I have a few prompts:
* images in jpeg-format with high compression looks poor. You can use PNG - is better for web-based graphic.
* background color (rgb 102, 102, 204; hex 6666CC) in H4-title (Simutrans is a freeware...) looks on my display very, very crazy

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #2 on:** October 04, 2009, 03:20:27 PM »

Quote from: Tomas on October 04, 2009, 02:53:43 PM

* background color (rgb 102, 102, 204; hex 6666CC) in H4-title (Simutrans is a freeware...) looks on my display very, very crazy

Screenshot please?

Tomas · « **Reply #3 on:** October 04, 2009, 06:17:16 PM »

EDIT: i try to use color from link:

In top is original color (#6666CC) and in bottom is "new" (#30406E). I think, new color provides better contrast...

prissi · « **Reply #4 on:** October 04, 2009, 10:56:16 PM »

This looks imho ugly too, I think. Why needed to make it like this?

(And those strange MAC-like icons on the download page case more confusion to me than directing me to anything. Also a break under the complete download would be great ...)

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #5 on:** October 18, 2009, 01:34:44 AM »

I'll be updating the Simutrans.com portal soon. Maybe tomorrow or Monday, so post what you think about the site as fast as you can.

I'd like to ask a little thing: Are you seeing this image at the front page http://www.simutrans.com/newsite ?

That's just a placeholder. I think of substituting it by an image with some locos, convoys and trucks (pak128 or 192) over a transparent background or something like this as shown at http://128.simutrans.com/.

Quote from: prissi on October 04, 2009, 10:56:16 PM

This looks imho ugly too, I think. Why needed to make it like this?

What is ugly for you?

VS · « **Reply #6 on:** October 18, 2009, 10:47:31 AM »

What breaks it for me is:

~~1) Strange colour choice (violet)~~ Sorry, you are changing that!

2) The part saying "download" overlaps the bar in a rather blocky way... no idea how to explain better, it feels like banana boxes stacked together carelessly:

Probably related to having a different height overlapping above and under.

3) The bar itself is too strong a divider; there is "background", "text block" and "header", all of them with adding more horizontal lines, and this adds even more of these. It's just a theory but it begins to look too much like an advertisement.

Frank · « **Reply #7 on:** October 18, 2009, 11:03:51 AM »

the footer flag link for german

simutrans-germany.com is not a german portal site, is a server home page

this page not included external links

suggestion

tikiwiki german index page

or

german forum

or

a user create a new portal page on simutrans-germany.de

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #8 on:** November 26, 2009, 04:53:05 AM »

Some minor edits on Simutrans.com:

- Blog and SVNLogs links added;
- Abandoned/death sites removed;
- New fixed and consistent footer;
- Background bug fixed;
- something more.

http://www.simutrans.com/index.html

Spike · « **Reply #9 on:** November 26, 2009, 08:54:02 AM »

Quote from: IgorTekton on October 18, 2009, 01:34:44 AM

I'd like to ask a little thing: Are you seeing this image at the front page http://www.simutrans.com/newsite ?

late but maybe it still helps: Yes image is there. Using Mozilla SeaMoneky as browser.

Rodrigo Soracco · « **Reply #10 on:** November 26, 2009, 11:14:16 AM »

Good. Dark purple banner, as proposed by Tomas, looks better (imho).

Spike · « **Reply #11 on:** November 26, 2009, 11:24:40 AM »

I found a few references to http://www.simugraph.com

This domain will seize to exist some time next spring. I moved most of my web stuff to http://www.funkelwerk.de

Maybe you can update the links?

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #12 on:** November 26, 2009, 06:26:53 PM »

Quote from: Hajo on November 26, 2009, 08:54:02 AM

late but maybe it still helps: Yes image is there. Using Mozilla SeaMoneky as browser.

Refresh the page twice (Ctrl+F5) or clean the cache.

And I'm going to empty http://www.simutrans.com/newsite.

prissi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 26, 2009, 09:25:57 PM »

Download page: There is a 102-2 download for intel and power mac on sourceforge but not on siad page.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #14 on:** November 30, 2009, 04:02:04 AM »

Quote from: prissi on November 26, 2009, 09:25:57 PM

There is a 102-2 download for intel and power mac on sourceforge but not on said page.

Done. Please, check the page.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #15 on:** December 11, 2009, 08:34:31 PM »

Download page updated.

Please, check out: http://www.simutrans.com/download.htm

The Hood · « **Reply #16 on:** December 11, 2009, 10:18:44 PM »

Thanks!

Frank · « **Reply #17 on:** December 12, 2009, 09:33:35 AM »

update the pak192.comic link, please

see http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=3909.0

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #18 on:** December 12, 2009, 12:25:49 PM »

Quote from: Frank on December 12, 2009, 09:33:35 AM

update the pak192.comic link, please

Done.

prissi · « **Reply #19 on:** December 12, 2009, 10:29:59 PM »

Could we get the title bar from the blog also for the www.simutrans.com? Imho it looks much better and it should just require some CSS changes. And it would not hurt if www.simutrans.com is tested with Chrome, I find this jumping menubar due to bold change by mouseover quite annoying, but I would like to hear more comments on it.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2010, 04:07:15 PM »

I did a minor edit on Simutrans site:

- Download: few tweaks;
- Community: new Chat channel link (Direct via browser);
- Links: new fan sites and some links edited.

The Hood · « **Reply #21 on:** February 25, 2010, 08:20:12 PM »

Can you update the link to pak128.Britain download please? New link:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/simutrans/files/pak128.britain/pak128.britain%20for%20102-0/pak128Britain_1-0-7_0-102.zip/download

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #22 on:** February 25, 2010, 10:13:39 PM »

done!

The Hood · « **Reply #23 on:** February 25, 2010, 11:10:34 PM »

cheers.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #24 on:** March 08, 2010, 02:56:17 PM »

Another simutrans site update is near. So, I need to know few things:

1) Are there Simutrans complete versions for 102.2.2 available?

2) v102.2.2 is stable?

3) BeOs will no longer be supported by Simutrans DevTeam?

jonasbb · « **Reply #25 on:** March 08, 2010, 03:21:51 PM »

2) It has mostly bugs correction, so yes.

3) Haiku should be full compatible with BeOs,so the programm should run.

prissi · « **Reply #26 on:** March 08, 2010, 07:37:02 PM »

Well Haiku has a different networking library than BeOS. But since no modern computer can run BeOS (no dual CPU support, no support of meodrn networking chips, ... ) but can run Haiku, I compiled now under Haiku.

I think 102.2.2 is one of the most stable released ever ... but I though the rule was to call something stable after one week testing.

And the complete version should be on sourceforge.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #27 on:** March 09, 2010, 03:28:52 AM »

Simutrans.com just updated.

- download page: new stable.
- about page: menu bar.
- links page: menu bar and more links.
- general: minor fixes.

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #28 on:** March 16, 2010, 12:36:33 AM »

Simutrans.com updated:

- help page: 2 new links of sites with manuals added and several fixes.

prissi · « **Reply #29 on:** May 26, 2010, 09:39:56 PM »

Maybe the german link could rather point to "www.simutrans.de"

yobbobandana · « **Reply #30 on:** June 01, 2010, 03:42:32 PM »

Hi!

I wanted to do some hacking on the latest simutrans source, and I quite easily found the link to the development SVN account from http://www.simutrans.com/development.htm. However I was a little stumped when it asked for a password.

After trying combinations of "anonymous" and "guest" to no avail, I dug around on this forum and found the details (username: "anon", password: "").

My suggestion is that it would be nice if this info was added to the main website

.

EDIT BY Igor: DONE!

Dwachs · « **Reply #31 on:** June 01, 2010, 03:57:41 PM »

yes, this should be mentioned there!

IgorEliezer · « **Reply #32 on:** August 08, 2010, 01:23:44 AM »

A new update is near. What's new:

- SVN password on public, as said here: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=5258.0
- German link will be www.simutrans.de
- More links in Simutrans Sites page: http://simutrans.com/links.htm
- New screenshots in PakSet gallery: http://simutrans.com/paksets.htm (many of them will be SMSC winners)
- some fixes.

But, to get it done, I will need:

- to know, does the pakJapan (or Pak64Japan) still exist?
- one screenshot of pak96.comic

vilvoh · « **Reply #33 on:** August 08, 2010, 09:18:28 AM »

Quote from: IgorTekton on August 08, 2010, 01:23:44 AM

But, to get it done, I will need:
- one screenshot of pak96.comic

You can use this one from A. Brose (SMSC May Edition Winner)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abrose_bigcity.png

Frank · « **Reply #34 on:** August 08, 2010, 09:28:03 AM »

under Links

Quote

...
Simutrans FAQ - Simutrans FAQ in Simutrans Forum Arquive.
...

Arquive - is this correct?

for Online-Dat better this link

http://online-dat.simutrans-germany.com/