My New VIC Website, VIC-20 ONLINE

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 8:26 pm

I noticed a while back that I'd managed to amass a lot of VIC documents and things from the web. I put them all together and created my own VIC site, VIC ONLINE

I still have a lot more D64s and things to get online, but I'm so slow I figured I'd go ahead with what I have.

GreyGhost · Post by **GreyGhost** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:10 pm

Nice

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 10:42 pm

Wonderful! Your website really captures the fun of the VIC. Now there is even more pressure for me to update the links on the front page.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:09 am

man, your "welcome" program is wicked!

nippur72 · Post by **nippur72** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 2:18 pm

Cool pages !! The vic screen animation is fantastic (btw how did you get it at the correct aspect ratio?)

The link to the "UMI reference card" seems to be broken.

Also, I hope to see the link to "my setup" in the future.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:06 pm

nippur72 wrote:Cool pages !! The vic screen animation is fantastic (btw how did you get it at the correct aspect ratio?)

I used Photoshop to stretch out the elements in the animation. Nothing fancy, I just guessed based on what looked right.

nippur72 wrote:The link to the "UMI reference card" seems to be broken.

Oops! Thanks, I think it's fixed now.

nippur72 wrote:Also, I hope to see the link to "my setup" in the future.

This weekend I'll get some photos online. Thanks for the comments.

Thomas Hechelhammer · Post by **Thomas Hechelhammer** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 2:16 pm

Nice work.

In the documents-section something is wrong.

The text linking to Rick Melick looks damaged, I'm using firefox 1.5.0.3 for Linux.

-- Thomas

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 3:57 pm

Thomas Hechelhammer wrote:Nice work.

In the documents-section something is wrong.

The text linking to Rick Melick looks damaged, I'm using firefox 1.5.0.3 for Linux.

Weird. It must be something about the way firefox displays the page. I've looked at the site on numerous PCs, all using Internet Explorer, and I never noticed anything like this.

Post by **bbell** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:28 pm

Alan wrote: Weird. It must be something about the way firefox displays the page. I've looked at the site on numerous PCs, all using Internet Explorer, and I never noticed anything like this.

Hmmm... Looks OK here on 1.5.0.7 Firefox on Linux. Perhaps its a Font issue?

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:30 pm

It's a text spacing issue with the page itself, I get the same problem running the page on both IE6 and Firefox. It only appears correctly for font set to "large" in IE6 for example for me; anything less and those three lines overlap each other (along with a couple near the top of the page solely in Firefox).

I had a look at the source. Horrible. Very horrible. Then I saw it had been created by Frontpage, which explains a lot.

Anyhow, I think the issue is due to the "margin-bottom: -15" in the guilty lines.

Personally I say code the thing manually using simple HTML and CSS and leave the design packages alone... you'll find more control over things.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 6:48 pm

Mayhem wrote:Anyhow, I think the issue is due to the "margin-bottom: -15" in the guilty lines.

Good call. I think I've fixed it. Thanks everyone.

Thomas Hechelhammer · Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:48 am

Something has changed ... but in the wrong direction.

In fact it's a problem which I only get with websites created with frontpage and dreamweaver.
Then I have to enlarge the font two times, and all looks better.
But that's only a workaround.

The code looks very weird, please check it with the html-validator.

http://validator.w3.org/

Regards, Thomas

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:52 am

Page appears fine for me now in IE6 and Firefox 1.5.0.7 but in the latter the phrase "UMI Vic20 Ref Card" is above the picture and overlaps it slightly. If I increase the font one step, then it appears okay.

Welcome to the wonderful world of browser compliance. And yes it can be a right bitch to sort cos people will always want their fonts varying heights on screen due to resolution and their eyesight!

Boray · Post by **Boray** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:43 pm

Great site! God job!

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:38 pm

Thomas Hechelhammer wrote:Something has changed ... but in the wrong direction.

In fact it's a problem which I only get with websites created with frontpage and dreamweaver.
Then I have to enlarge the font two times, and all looks better.
But that's only a workaround.

The code looks very weird, please check it with the html-validator.

Thanks to everyone for helping with this. I spent some more time trying to straighten it out a little, you might try it again. It looks fine to me now, regardless of the font size I use.

As far as the 'weird code' goes, I don't doubt it. But it's about as good as it's going to get. If it looks OK to 90% of the people who look at it, and the other 10% have to increase their font size or something-- that's acceptable to me. Maybe someday in the far-flung future I'll have lots of time to devote to making the site perfectly viewable in every oddball browser configuration imaginable. Not anytime soon, though.