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Title: Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: saint on June 13, 2004, 04:35:24 pm
Playing with some ideas for the examples project page. Sneak peeks / comments/criticisms.... http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_examples_expanded.php

--- saint
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: AlanS17 on June 14, 2004, 10:44:50 am
I like the descriptions, but the page is frikkin huge. I think it's a great idea, tohugh. Perhaps there's a way to break it down to multiple pages or maybe into further categories with anchors.
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: JoyMonkey on June 15, 2004, 01:21:00 pm
How about including a small thumbnail for each project? You could ask each owner to provide the thumbnail on their own webspace and link straight to it; this would make spotting broken links much easier too (if their site goes down so does the thumbnail).
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: SirPoonga on June 15, 2004, 09:34:50 pm
That would not be a good idea, it wouldn't work with my sites as you can't have external links.
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: saint on June 16, 2004, 08:50:20 am
I'm leaning towards a graphically intense version of the page linked off the main page (so you don't get clobbered without warning), with all images hosted on my server...
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: Chris on June 20, 2004, 09:39:37 pm
How about small icons to denote some of the features as submitted on the "Submit Project" link?  Like an icon for rotating monitor, 4-player panel, scratch-built or converted, etc.  Lots of good information there that is nly put to use on advanced searches...

--Chris
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: AlanS17 on June 20, 2004, 11:26:10 pm
How about small icons to denote some of the features as submitted on the "Submit Project" link?  Like an icon for rotating monitor, 4-player panel, scratch-built or converted, etc.  Lots of good information there that is nly put to use on advanced searches...

--Chris

I second the notion. Great idea!
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: saint on June 21, 2004, 06:49:35 am
Excellent idea! I'll give it a whirl!
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: AmericanDemon on June 30, 2004, 10:20:52 pm
Each section should have a top ten with small pic and expanded description, then the others could be standard smaller links with the icons mentioned above.
Title: Re:Playing with expanded examples page...
Post by: patrickl on July 16, 2004, 10:56:08 am
How about just a simple detailed list (spreadsheet) with all the details on one line per example (a bit like in Mame32+). Make it sortable per column and you could sort the list based on the details.

Is there no registration of the date when the example was added?