Being as the design and layout are so important to this new site much effort has been put into the navigation. Where as before sprite pages sat alone I have now redesigned the whole issue so like below in the cippy screen all association with that game can be found on one page. Each page has the main menu at the top then a sub menu for reference eg. Ancipital, NOTB direct link to approapiate issue and so on. Also, game information is there like number of levels, release date, notes from Yak and soon to be added will be high score like for Muttley... and so on...
I am also VERY lucky to have Lester M Fong on the case of obtaining screen shots... currently he has ploughed thru Cippy and MamaLlama. As in the screenshot above I will represent each level in the form of the actual layout in the game thus 10x10, clicking on a square opens a new page featuring 3 shots from cippy. 2 standard shots and a help page shot. I will adopt the same for Mamallama and Revenge2. Games like sheep in Space and Revenge will have a more linear approach and Batalyx .. well.. not sure yet! All is in hand, this thing is developing and changing layout daily... trying new things and making thins work... bloody hard somtimes. So far I have calculated that the whole site will contain in the region of 1200 pages! So much work to do!
Mark, if they're all very similar you might be interested in looking into page generation using a server side scripting language. PHP would be my choice, but it's up to you.
Mark, if they're all very similar you might be interested in looking into page generation using a server side scripting language. PHP would be my choice, but it's up to you.
um yea, that would be VERY useful. I know nothing about this though. Any assistance would be fab. Cheers Matt.
