At 1/8/07 09:32 AM, Bezman wrote: Below: the stuff I've done so far.

Great job! I like most of them. I'll integrate some of them into the cal this evening (MST) and get feedback from the masses.

Seriously, nice work on these!

At 1/8/07 09:49 AM, Depredation wrote:

At 1/8/07 09:32 AM, Bezman wrote: All use up to 11 pixels in height, apart from the pencil, which is 12 pixels high.

They look great, it'd be nice to see abit more variety of colour in the calendar, at the moment it's just orange and gray really. No offense boM :).

I think that's the appeal though - it's just like NG.

Ta!

At 1/8/07 10:33 AM, ArthurGhostly wrote:

At 1/8/07 09:32 AM, Bezman wrote: Below: the stuff I've done so far. A few didn't turn out so well. Like the one that's meant to be a keyboard.

I really like that flash symbol. Good show. (:

Ta. That was easier as I had a reference of practically the same size. And it's simple enough to drop a few pixels. Glad we're not with the Flash 5 symbol any longer.

At 1/8/07 11:30 AM, BoMToons wrote:

At 1/8/07 09:32 AM, Bezman wrote: Below: the stuff I've done so far.

Great job! I like most of them. I'll integrate some of them into the cal this evening (MST) and get feedback from the masses.

Seriously, nice work on these!

Cheers! Shall I export to .gif and send them all to you? Or just send the .psd to let you pick the ones you want?

Are you gonna have a radio button for what icon we wish to have?

tiny nit-picks for calander
I think the bit at the bottom needs to be more obviously about adding an event. I changed that rather than the bit on the top-right once last evening and once this morning when I was tired and lacking in sleep. I admit foolishness, but feel it could be 'seperated' more from the main thing.
? Maybe make 'add new event' larger and centre it above the date-adding?

? Maybe have the blackness be just around the event-adding controls, with a bit of space (with the grey colour) below the calander?

Also, my birthday is on the 13th. I added it wrongly the first time, forgettng to insert a date, then added it in again, putting in the 13th.

? You could maybe have an intermediate stage where we preview what we're submitting before clicking a 'submit' button? Just an idea...

? Maybe have a way to submit multiple events at once? Maybe a link to such a page, which would have maybe 10 or whatever identical fields, then allow us the preview them, then submit together?

At 1/8/07 01:02 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: But I suggest there be some form of 'annual' selection when submitting a date. For birthdays and whatnot.

I like that theres no annual selection.. it weeds out users who arent regulars. One thing i hated about the NG rogues gallery was that some of those users dont even visit anymore .. i wish that the gallery would weed those people out. I dont want to have annual reminders of ArthurGhostly if he has moved on from newgrounds a year from now. Ya know? I like that its manually updated and has the human touch to it. I dont want it to be some self updating robot.

At 1/8/07 01:45 PM, Luis wrote:

At 1/8/07 01:02 PM, ArthurGhostly wrote: But I suggest there be some form of 'annual' selection when submitting a date. For birthdays and whatnot.

I like that theres no annual selection.. it weeds out users who arent regulars.

Also, it means we get to think of and read new messages for each year.

another suggestion

? Have an option where we can click and then view an entire year on one page.

I'm gonna try and get all the flags on this page done. Hopefully I'll be able to keep at it and finish it off within a few weeks.

I've got some ideas for other things I might want to also use the flags for.

If anyone wants me to do a specific country first, let me know. Otherwise, I'm doing them in the order on that page.

One thing you should do. Add a image to the top of each month thats representative in a way, members birthday, popular submission that month etc, pick one. Same as how you'd have pictures on your actual calender I mean.

At 1/8/07 01:45 PM, Luis wrote: I like that theres no annual selection.. it weeds out users who arent regulars. One thing i hated about the NG rogues gallery was that some of those users dont even visit anymore .. i wish that the gallery would weed those people out. I dont want to have annual reminders of ArthurGhostly if he has moved on from newgrounds a year from now. Ya know? I like that its manually updated and has the human touch to it. I dont want it to be some self updating robot.

So, should I not put in the annual recurrence then? I say Luis should make the final decision on this one.

At 1/8/07 04:04 PM, Mogly wrote: One thing you should do. Add a image to the top of each month thats representative in a way, members birthday, popular submission that month etc, pick one. Same as how you'd have pictures on your actual calender I mean.

I'm not sure I follow what you're saying. Can you maybe draw a pic of what you're proposing?

I lost all interest when I didn't see my birthday marked
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At 1/8/07 05:25 PM, NegativeONE wrote: I lost all interest when I didn't see my birthday marked
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Use the submission form at the bottom u lazy bum. >:(

october 2 (chuckel)

http://www.midlet-review.com/images/reviews/j 2me/celeb_calendar/cc3.gif

Here I mean like this sort of thing. Picture at the top, dates below.

The pictures would be relative to the month : ~
- Famous artists first work submitted this month?
- Users birthday
- Popular submission
etc.

i like the idea of putting some sort of art or something on the top of each month ... although i dont agree with having paris hilton's face be on any of the months.
Also i like the color palette dont change that. Maybe people could just make header changes for each month.. i dont think it should be too over the top up there...

-L

Heh, it's funny to hear people calling me a lazy mod when the reason I'm not around is because I'm working so hard on everything else. Posting on this forum.. is not work. That's why no one pays you to do it. Yeesh, if Lu were a little more mature, I'd wonder how he can stand hanging around you kids all day <3
And if you were calling me lazy for not entering it myself, I guess you just don't care that I gave up scrollbars as my New Years Resolution >: ( You just want me to give up, don't you

lawl... negativeONE, the only moderator in the Flash forum I don't respect.

Shit, I lost the respect of a 14 year old Legendary Frog fan who's been on the forums less than a year and has no Flash to his na- wait, why the fuck do I care about your respect again?

At 1/8/07 06:16 PM, BritishMoose wrote: Each artist born in each month could give a piece of art to the month?

IEXAMPLE:

For May, me, Paranoia, Happy Sheep and Tom (of SFB) could all make something.

I dont like that idea.. i dont want to 'own' a month.. a persons birthday is only a day it really shouldnt be made a whole spectacle. i dont think anyones so important that the whole month should be owned by a persons artwork or featuring a person.

Just put in OODLES of GOOD STUFF!

Tried to implement most of what has come up so far (except permanent recurring events...waiting for Luis' final verdict on that).

Bezman, give me a site to link your name to in the about section.

We're up to 106 events!

To Neg, I put a button in for those of us who can't be bothered to scroll...(too much wiicade eh?) ;)

At 1/8/07 07:55 PM, BoMToons wrote: Just put in OODLES of GOOD STUFF!

Tried to implement most of what has come up so far (except permanent recurring events...waiting for Luis' final verdict on that).

I think his final verdict was a no.

Bezman, give me a site to link your name to in the about section.

http://www.aciddica.com

Ta!

I've started doing ALL the flags of the world.

44-ish down, 220-ish to go. British Virgin Islands/Cayman Islands/Anguilla are slightly indistinguishable maybe. Some, like Christmas Islands/Bhutan/British Indian Ocean territory (basically the ones with fiddly details) aren't gonna look good.

If we were to have a checklist of every single country, maybe ordered alphabetically, mybe even with the names beside them, that would be 'nice to have'. But really, I doubt more than 10 are gonna be used. And if we have loads, without names (to guide folk to their own) it may be a bit hard finding whatever country you're looking for.

Maybe there could be a seperate bit for countries? I'm up for carrying on making them.

Thoughts appreciated.

We should have stuff for clocks and also talk-like-a-pirate day. The list is gonna be a bit ridiculous if we start giving folk like the kitty krew their own icon.

niggles
! Why's the link to this thread a different colour to everything else?

!! The link to 'add event' only works when on the main page.

! the light grey colour for visited links could be really hard to read on Saturday/Sunday for folk with poor eyes or monitors.

I reckon maybe we could be allowed to submit one header each or something and it keeps picking a random one. Or maybe it picks a random one based on folk born that month, so we don't 'own' a month - just share it with the others born then.

P.S. If you want to understand what these flags are meant to be, I was using this page as reference. Brightened up some colours so they could be seen against the darker grey you use.

I obviously didn't duplicate the flags that are identical (to Australia, France, UK...). But I placed them mostly alphabetically above. Afghanistan to Colombia. plus the earlier 4.

At 1/8/07 09:03 PM, Bezman wrote: tons of flags

You are insane, I'll see what I can do to have a 1st level toggle between flags and icons.

As for the niggles, I'll see what I can do.

None of the ideas for how to choose the pic at top have tickled my fancy yet, so let's keep brainstorming on this one.

Ok, no recurring events then, if you want your legacy to live beyond 1 year, then you have to be around to post it again.

For the header pictures, you could specify a size and people submit appropriate art for that month, with approval from you.

First, I want to say: this is shaping up to be the calendar of calendars and I'm proud to be part of it.

Anyway, in the interests of pointing out those tiny flaws that keep it from perfection:

- Date/year text font seems a bit thin. Like maybe it should be at least bolded. Maybe we could make a custom font, save it as 12 images for the months, a bunch for the years, and you could use code to select which ones to display? We could maybe have a typeface similar to the NG one? Or whatever. Just something more decorative mebbe.

- I've decided I strongly dislike the colours you have in the boxes. I think it should be more like NG and not use any actual grey - just dark, desaturated purpley blue. If the boxes remained as dark as the ones on NG, the visited text link colours would also be more visible. Also, if they're both darker, it would mke making more visible icons slightly easier.

? Maybe we could have actual textures for the boxes, like NG does for portal entry bgs?

? Maybe have the month banner on the bottom, so we can just click forward after scrolling down?

Also, the forward/next arrows seem slightly out of place and boring. I was just thinking, maybe we could make it like the NG banner, with forward/next being text buttons on the ends, resembling the NG buttons. And maybe have the month/date as if it's in the bg somehow?

Also, add event/about look kinda bland now...

I'm just being really, really picky though. Like I said, near-perfect.

At 1/9/07 12:37 AM, BritishMoose wrote: You should make the user only capable of posting an event in the current year.

seconded

But I suppose maybe he's already doing that manually with birthdays? I like the idea that we can post a message about an imminent death or a flash collab ending/being released in 2010. I'm easily amused.

Also, that means that events like christmas and such will have to be reposted as well.

I like this. Users will hopefully put in witty little messages about Christmas or whatever and this gives a chance for change and whatnot.

Each year, folk will add such events anyway if they're important. I propose we maybe have a shout-out to get folk to submit stuff in December for the following year. I'm sure all pertinent dates will be quickly marked. And maybe keep the previous year until say, February.

regarding the picture at the top

I suggest we change the banner, one for every single day. Change it based on what day we're viewing it on. Users get to 'own' up to one day. If multiple folk share a birthday and the both really want that day, maybe they could collaborate. Or one of them chooses another day - doesn't need to be your birthday, just any day of the year. They draw whatever they want, within dimensions specified by you maybe, and that'd replace the NG header that day. If no-one has claimed the day, then we just see the NG header.

I wouldnt get married to the color scheme of the calendar.. heard through the grapevine that the redesign should launch early march.. seems redundant to spend all this time fine tunning color schemes when itll feel very dated in another month and a half when the new newgrounds launches.

My 2 cents.

UPDATED

I fixed some little stuff:

1. Icons and flags now toggle at the bottom (to handle the HUGE number of flags Bezman is making)
2. Events forced to the current year
3. Bezman's link is fixed
4. You can now submit events details with spaces and hard enters ("remember remember the 5th of November" for example)
5. Link to add event works from any page now
6. Bolded the month and year header
7. Latest events added: Current event count is 121!

I agree with Luis that we should not mess with the current colors n' such for a few months to see if we care to skin it with the new design. (having a retro calendar might appeal if we so choose though)

But I would like Bezman to make some pixel-art arrows to switch months (the left and right ones)

As for the banner at top....I'm still not sure, but what do you think of this idea:
We use this thread for people to post banner pics specific to a month and then the header just randomly chooses a pic from that month.

So, I'd give you the pic dimensions, then you all would post a pic in this thread (making sure to specify what month it's for), then I'll grab them and code them in to appear randomly based on the current month being viewed.

You could call attention to your specific day if you choose that month, or some particular event, or just do a seasonal pic for the month with a label like "December" or you could whore out your website or whatever...lots of flexibility and fairly easy for me to code.

Whatcha all think?

P.S.

Bezman, or someone, I need a list of the flag names in order in an array, here's the format I need:

("United States","Great Britain","Scotland","Sweden","etc.","etc.","e tc")

This will help me do tool-tips or labels for the huge flag list.

Either you can do it yourself Bez, or hook up with a volunteer from this thread to handle it for you...whoever helps will be credited in the "about" page!

At 1/9/07 12:48 PM, BoMToons wrote: Whatcha all think?

Not to get picky but i'd prefer just one pic. Else there'd never be all the 'i'm Miss December!' crap.

Nah I would rather just one because then that IS that month, like that pic IS describing the month.

Hard to explain.

Looking nice btw. Slightly cluttered, but who cares about that surely it's a good thing. One little thing - change the clicked link colour to a slightly darker version of the unclicked colour, looks alot like it's unlinked text.

Things are starting to look a little crammed. Specially events on tmrws date. I think while its nice to mention holidays i think that it should be reserved for really important widely known holidays otherwise they just take up space i think. Maybe on months that have many events running on the same day you could write one event and have a link or something that says 'see more...' or 'more events' Its a design eyesore to look at a jam packed date like Jan 10 with icons and everything. And being a designer it bugs me :P

At 1/9/07 01:06 PM, Luis wrote: Things are starting to look a little crammed.

Shall we limit it to 2 events on the same day and the rest are found through a "view all (4)" link? And is it only the first 2 submitted that show or is there some other determining factor? Deciding based on "importance" is a little tough to do...

At 1/9/07 12:48 PM, BoMToons wrote: UPDATED

I fixed some little stuff:

Brilliant update. For a moment, the US flag was the default, rather than the NG tank. Sorted now though.

Looks a lot nicer with the bold titles.

I agree with Luis that we should not mess with the current colors n' such for a few months to see if we care to skin it with the new design. (having a retro calendar might appeal if we so choose though)

Yeah, we probably shouldn't get too bent over the exact dimensions, buttons, etc. Going and making textures is probably too much work to risk having to throw away.

I still reckon the greys should be dark colours.

If we're to base it off the current NG layout, here's some quick suggestions.

turn 555555 into 4F545E
turn 444444 into 3D4147

But I would like Bezman to make some pixel-art arrows to switch months (the left and right ones)

Would you now?

Well, I'll do something quick later tonight.

As for the banner at top....I'm still not sure, but what do you think of this idea:
We use this thread for people to post banner pics specific to a month and then the header just randomly chooses a pic from that month.

So, I'd give you the pic dimensions, then you all would post a pic in this thread (making sure to specify what month it's for), then I'll grab them and code them in to appear randomly based on the current month being viewed.

You could call attention to your specific day if you choose that month, or some particular event, or just do a seasonal pic for the month with a label like "December" or you could whore out your website or whatever...lots of flexibility and fairly easy for me to code.

Whatcha all think?

I don't like the possibility that one month may have 30-odd banners for it, another month a couple. I personally like my idea - that you get one day, then that's it. Allows for everyone to have a timeframe to call their own and means we'll get some new eye-candy when visiting. I don't think we'll need more than 365 slots.

But I suppose your idea has other advantages...

I'm generally in favour.

array-majigie

So if I do the flags, then the array, you can put them all alphabetically and label them? That'll be pimp!

The text is on the cia website anyway, so it should be just a 10-minute job.

I'm gonna export the gifs anyway. As I said before, I'll be using these flags for a few other projects I've thought of. Do you need the filenames to be the same as the strings in the array?

Been doing some here and there in between other things. 60ish done.

messy tomorrow

I agree. Maybe putting a cap on character limit and making it so the 2nd line sorta started just after the icon could help the problem? Like maybe we'd be allowed 2 lines worth? I think if it were like that, it'd look okay even with many entries for one day.

If we run out of space in the boxes, showing the earliest submissions sounds fair.

At 1/9/07 01:56 PM, Bezman wrote: Yeah, we probably shouldn't get too bent over the exact dimensions, buttons, etc. Going and making textures is probably too much work to risk having to throw away.

I still reckon the greys should be dark colours.

If we're to base it off the current NG layout, here's some quick suggestions.

turn 555555 into 4F545E
turn 444444 into 3D4147

Ok, can do.

But I would like Bezman to make some pixel-art arrows to switch months (the left and right ones)

Would you now?

Yes...you or anyone else MAN ENOUGH for the task.

array-majigie

So if I do the flags, then the array, you can put them all alphabetically and label them? That'll be pimp!

The text is on the cia website anyway, so it should be just a 10-minute job.

I'm gonna export the gifs anyway. As I said before, I'll be using these flags for a few other projects I've thought of. Do you need the filenames to be the same as the strings in the array?

File names should be: flag0.gif
Replace the "0" with the corresponding element of the array...so U.S. is flag0.gif, Great Britain is flag1.gif, Scotland is flag3.gif, and so on.

I had an attempt. Also made icons for halloween, clocks, kitty krew and talk like a pirate day.