• Registered: 2010-12-03
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Topic: Juggle Chainsaws

Juggle Chainsaws is where I'm chronicling my attempt to play every NES game released in the United States in roughly chronological order. 

I've given the theme a bit of a face lift, but nothing to major.  New background, total removal of the footer, that sort of thing.  Although the footer might come back.

I'd really appreciate any feedback you can give me.

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  • Registered: 2010-12-08
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Very cool! I definitely like it! How did you manage the custom header? I've been struggling with that tongue

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  • Registered: 2010-12-03
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Just set a background image for the header in the user.css file and had it repeat horizontally but not vertically.

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  • Registered: 2010-12-03
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Alright, I gave it a pretty substantial face lift and would love to hear some of your opinions on what I've done.

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  • Registered: 2010-11-18
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

I love the concept of your site, and it looks pretty good too! God, this brings back memories...

Interesting what you did with the slideshow...? Or did you just add a border and some CSS to the 'traditional' layout for the first post on the homepage?

Btw, under the sidebar widget 'Follow Juggle Chainsaws!', you have an email icon that links to http://jugglechainsaws.com/jugglechainsaws@gmail.com, but should link to mailto:jugglechainsaws@gmail.com

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  • Registered: 2010-12-03
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Grr about the email link.  That's part of a widget and I didn't even think that sort of thing would need to be checked. 

As for the slideshow, I kept the box for the slideshow the same size and changed the thumbnail size.  Then I adjusted the text's background to fit beside the image.  The one thing that I really miss is having that whole box be a link to the post.

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  • Registered: 2010-11-18
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

waffles wrote:

As for the slideshow, I kept the box for the slideshow the same size and changed the thumbnail size.  Then I adjusted the text's background to fit beside the image.  The one thing that I really miss is having that whole box be a link to the post.

I haven't tested this, but what if you change this code from slideshow.php...

<?php while ($q->have_posts()) : $q->the_post(); ?>
            <div class="featured-slideshow-inner" <?php if ($count != 0) echo 'style="display: none"'; ?>>
                <a class="featured-article" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark">
                <?php echo arras_get_thumbnail('featured-slideshow-thumb'); ?>
                </a>
                <div class="featured-entry">
                    <a class="entry-title" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
                    <div class="entry-summary"><?php the_excerpt() ?></div>
                    <div class="progress"></div>
                </div>
            </div>

...to this?

<?php while ($q->have_posts()) : $q->the_post(); ?>
            <a class="featured-slideshow-inner" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" <?php if ($count != 0) echo 'style="display: none"'; ?>>
                <div class="featured-article">
                <?php echo arras_get_thumbnail('featured-slideshow-thumb'); ?>
                </div>
                <div class="featured-entry">
                    <div class="entry-title" <?php the_title(); ?></div>
                    <div class="entry-summary"><?php the_excerpt() ?></div>
                    <div class="progress"></div>
                </div>
            </a>

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  • Registered: 2010-12-03
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Doesn't work.  Oh well, I can live with it how it is now.

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  • Registered: 2010-08-16
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Cool site man, can always appreciate someone willing to put time and effort into even the shittiest NES games.  Nice job.

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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Very nice site. I love your style. Simpel and elegant.
Nice work  smile

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  • Registered: 2010-12-03
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Re: Juggle Chainsaws

Since I'm currently running a contest, I thought I'd bump this topic back up.  Details can be seen here, but basically every comment is a chance to win a $20 gift certificate.

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