New Skins for the Website

zactyl · Post by **zactyl** » 23 April 08 2:33 pm

caughtatwork, in another thread, wrote:As a simple change to see how effective it will be to differentiate content based on your home state, when you visit the site now, if you are logged in and you have a state set in your profile (AU / NZ only),you should now see at the top left, next to the GCA logo, your state flag. Clicking on that state flag will take you to the dashboard for your state.

Further to this, if your home state is set as NI or SI of New Zealand, you will now see a slightly different skin for the header and tabs. Black and Silver is the theme with a silver fern indicating that you are using the NZ skin. Over time I expect that a choice of skins may be available based on your location as well as the ability to set your choice of skin regardless of which state is set as your home state.

This is only the first part of state based content based on a discussion here:
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopi ... highlight=

If you have ideas / comments / opinions, please start up a thread in the GCA website section or in The Senate where we can discuss the possible future of this type of functionality.

Firstly, it works great! Quick trip to NZ, visit the page again and voila!
Can we change the flags though, maybe a stylised icon of the state instead? Need to mouse over the flag to know which state it's for...

Post by **caughtatwork** » 23 April 08 2:56 pm

You don't know what your state flag looks like?

On the other hand, yeah, sure, why not.

You need to make 10 of them.
One for each state and territory for AU, one for NZSI and one for NZNI.
No taller than 50px, with should probably be 50px as well to keep all those icons in line.
.png format please.
When they're ready I'll give you my email address and we can test them.

zactyl · Post by **zactyl** » 23 April 08 3:26 pm

caughtatwork wrote:You don't know what your state flag looks like?

Yes, I do, but now I live in a different state.

I'll see what I can whip up!

GSVNoFixedAbode · Post by **GSVNoFixedAbode** » 23 April 08 9:12 pm

Niiiiice!

Post by **caughtatwork** » 23 April 08 10:53 pm

GSVNoFixedAbode wrote:Niiiiice!

You're welcome.

Post by **caughtatwork** » 27 April 08 12:09 pm

The NZ skin has been enhanced.

The front page has a map of NZ (instead of AU/NZ) so you can click on SI or NI to get the leaderboard for that island.

The stats that appear on the front page under the NZ skin are for NZ only. They are generated once a day so won't always be the "most" up to date, but it keeps the load on the server down. As we only get a feed for the faeries on a daily basis or longer, this shouldn't cause a problem.

rediguana · Post by **rediguana** » 29 April 08 7:16 am

Cool! It's looking good!

Thanks for all your hard work!