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BWSCIIICG v3.0 Released!
Topic Started: Jan 25 2011, 09:58 AM (813 Views)
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BaneWolf's Soul Calibur III CaS Guide version 3.0 has been finally released!

After nearly five years of the Soul Calibur III CaS site retaining the stale, messy and dated layout with little to no major overhaul; change has finally arrived to help free the site from its gruesomeness.

The layout was created not only to do just that, but to stylistically blend the two SCIII and SCIV CaS sites together more smoothly. Thus, many features you will see on the new layout are taken directly from the SCIV CaS site, and the navigation even remains closely the same.

Many of you who visit the forums regularly may already know how the layout looks. I presented a preview of this layout back in 2009 and it has finally been completed (though I did take 2 years off from the project due to uninterest). This is also the only layout I actually liked and continued working on, compared to a few others that were wholly scrapped.

Visit the site and see the new changes now!

If you don't see the changes hit refresh on your browser or hit CTRL + F5!


Features:
  • Cleaner, more modern design coupled with easier navigation.
  • Much less bandwidth consumption with fewer decorative/useless images, hence all pages load much faster than previous.
  • Content including characters and series titles are now all alphabetically organized similarly to the SCIV CaS site.
  • Characters are now presented in a list format rather than the bulky, face images/buttons of the past. This allows all content to fit onto one single page rather than multiple pages, and additionally sheds off enormous load times.
  • Author names are now shown directly on all characters in the lists, allowing easier visual representation of who created what.
  • Any alternate costumes are also shown directly on the lists, so you can jump from one costume to another easier.
  • Originals under User Library can now be sorted both alphabetically by character name or author name.
  • Entirely separate links section with many more links to other pages.
  • Viewers can now easily switch from the SCIII CaS site to the SCIV CaS site and vice versa within the pages, whereas before it was impossible unless you knew the site link.
  • Shoutbox added. This shoutbox is unique and separate from the one on the SCIV CaS site.
  • Artwork gallery with user submissions added.
Keep in mind the following is still carried from the old layout:
  • Screenshots and videos are the same, they are not redone.
  • Character setup on pages remains mostly the same (e.g. name, gender, class, origin, author, discipline, weapon, additional credits, screenshots, videos, biography/story and formula). However costume is now added as a field to originals to store easier access to costumes, similar to the SCIV CaS site.
  • There are no additional features of the SCIV CaS site such as viewer ratings and viewer commenting. These can be added, but the current server does not allow so.
Currently the site has been tested fully functional under Firefox 3.

I need people to test this site under other browsers such as IE! And do turn off your ad-block software/plug-ins since the ads need to be tested to be correct in addition.

Report any errors you see to me, please! :)
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C.T, great job for making this! The simpler design makes navigation faster and less images means future update (if any) would be easier XD

Few things that I observe:
:yes: Logo for SC3 now roughly same size as SC4
:yes: Consistent views between Opera, Safari and IE.
:yes: A functional shoutbox, yay!
:no: The banner Make Poverty History intervenes with the shoutbox.
:blink: (q55) BaneWolf's Soul Calibur III CaS Guide is a diverse, but also ancient website. The website actually started in 2005 so it is nearly 7 years old! (2005-2011, supposed to be 6 years old)

Also ran the site through LinkChecker:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4272178/BWSC3LinkOutput.html
(Mostly because of newsarchive and wrong-named link "indemain.html" on bottom navigator)

PS: The SG-ASoH has no broken links, no worries ;)

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Awesome, thanks for the link checker utility. I fixed everything except for the News Archive links, because I haven't created this page yet.

The poverty banner won't interfere with the shoutbox unless your screen size/window is really small, like 1024 x 768 or less. On 1280 x 800 it goes way beyond the shoutbox. But if it becomes a big problem I can get rid of it.
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Welcome :D

My evaluation comes from my test on on 1024 width window. So I think it intervenes. Varies between people, tho.

Note: If all fixes are in place, I'll begin downloading the site from CuteFTP XD
Edited by Perseonn Balthasaar, Jan 25 2011, 06:26 PM.

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Run it through the link checker again now and see what you get.
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I liked this new design. It really looks more elaborated and modern thaan the previous. Also, the compilation of CaS by alphabetical order was a nice touch. It can help browsers to have a better time accessing desired characters.

You did well, C.T. Congrats!
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Only 2 broken links:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4272178/BWSC3LinkOutput2.html

Great job on reducing the biiiig list of broken links XD

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Jan 26 2011, 04:40 PM
Only 2 broken links:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4272178/BWSC3LinkOutput2.html

Great job on reducing the biiiig list of broken links XD
seifershot.jpg fixed.

All that is left is Sol2.html, but I left this intentionally broken.

There was supposed to be a user cameo of Sol Badguy. But due to the site having another Sol (original) and my negligence I overwrote the old Sol. Didn't have backup for the cameo Sol and POOF! formula and every important bit of info gone.

I don't know if it's even possible to get his information back for his page. Guess I should just remove him huh? If he's fixed then the entire site is polished and thorough. Too bad, he was a good one.

And thanks for the comments thus far. Now that I've finished the layout I'm left with nothing to do. XD
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The screenshots are intact, right? How about recreate the Cameo Page, since you're the formula holder? :blink:

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Well, I didn't create the character. I put C.T as credit name just as temporary place holder and because I don't know who the author is anymore. But the character is not mine, otherwise it wouldn't be in User Library. :o I just have the screenshot, can't make a page without knowing formula, etc.

I'll try to look if I have an old backup of the site somewhere. If not, I have to just get rid of him.

Maybe this will help: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

I know they did cache the site from 2006-2008, but did they cache far enough to get to the original, unreplaced Sol?
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Meh grueling with the webarchive and it's erroneus cgi server, I got this:

.Name: Sol Badguy
.Gender: Male
.Origin: Guilty Gear X2
.Class: Barbarian
.(His Discipline should be Soul of Nightmar

All: -------
Head: Headband - 02,18
Hair: Spikey Hair - 02,26
Mask: -------
Chin: -------
Lower Torso: Sleeveless Shirt - 01,02
Mid Torso: -------
Upper Torso: Viking Armor - 02,21
Arms: Bandit's Gloves - 01,02
Shoulders: Lord's Shoulders - 02,20
Neck: -------
Waist: Unholy Tasset - 02,20
Lower Legs: -------
Upper Legs: Leather Pants - 01,14
Shins: -------
Socks: -------
Feet: Cloth Shoes - 02,22

Face: 07
Eyebrows: 03,26
Lips: 03,06
Eyes: 07,25
Skin: 04,19
Underwear: 01,18 (Default)
Voice: Man

Weapon Preference: -------


Credit: Murphyrider76
Additional Credits: None

Yay me :pirate:

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Thanks for that.

Website is fully polished and thorough. I actually fixed a few incorrect links, most notably incorrect links to full resolution screenshots. However I haven't checked all the video links for validity yet, so if anyone can do that for me I'd appreciate it.

CaS submissions are reopened for Soul Calibur III/BWSCIIICG!
Guidelines are now identical to the SCIV CaS site. First character is entirely FREE, and viewers can now submit up to 10 total new characters depending on points. For viewers who already have characters successfully submitted and displayed on this website, you can now start over fresh. Hence disregard whatever amount of characters you have on the website and immediately start submitting 10 more total characters.


ENJOY! :D
Edited by C.T, Jan 28 2011, 09:16 AM.
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I'll start leeching the whole site then ;)

EDIT: Wait, I'm gonna need new login info :blink:
Edited by Perseonn Balthasaar, Jan 28 2011, 05:21 PM.

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There's just one thing who I don't like. Remenber in the other layout to see the CAS, was the characters face, not the name in text.
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There's just one thing who I don't like. Remenber in the other layout to see the CAS, was the characters face, not the name in text.
IMO, due to the large amount of CaS in the site, coupled with some generation of screenshots, using face portrait will make things inconsistent and the page will load slower.

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