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Small Sites Brand New Writers Tori Amos in Lego QuBit
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An e-zine for hackers and phreakers, designed as an A4 newsletter. You must turn your monitor sidewides to view correctly! Why? Because Xerox Parc demonstrated WYSIWYG using monitors orientated to A4. We attempted to revitalise the idea with this site. | |||||
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Initially, the site was designed by sketching layout ideas on a piece paper - sideways. By beginning the project 'the wrong way around', we made sure that any idea's we had work be technically feasible. The main bulk of the site was created by building the text chunks into the appropiate sized <TABLE>s, rendering in a browser, grabbing the screen, and rotating them accordingly. By using 2-colour gif files the size was kept small, and easier to manage than a specific font. The scroller was created with a short piece of javascript, that replaced the SRC attribute of the <IMG> element. The original HTML file (complete with some unused ideas), can be found here! |
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www.2600.com www.Attrition.org |
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The graphics are split into two sections, 'general' (which includes the logos and other graphics), and 'specific' (for the text). This way, other browsers can be catered for, by creating images using their default font settings for a greater level of realism. |
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