Update
Guide profiles no longer show a preview of the guide's respective link. It simply caused to much trouble to pin down with any reliability for every possible URL and account for the desires of the respective webmasters.
They now contain all the search keywords of the guide (you can click on each of these to start a new search based on that keyword), as well as an indexed list of possible related guides.
Coming for this Feature - Show guide's keywords on profile.
- Allow report guide function from profile (currently on search results.) -Show guides with related keywords (sorted by number of related keywords and then number of hits.)
- Provide banner image from profile that can be posted anywhere to advertise each guide.
Other Updates
- Coming soon: New Firebolt logo.
- Coming soon: Site redesign.
What do you think of this Magistrate? The firebolt with the O could work as a smaller logo.
I like that you worked the concept into the name, but... Hrm. It actually says Torchlight to me more than Diablo. Maybe it's in the simplicity of the flame? (Maybe I should do one for Torchlight--I love that game.)
If you choose one that you like, I can work on integrating it w/ text (such as the above example) or just choosing a nice font to go next to it. I'll try a variety of options, of course.
Agh, this is a tough call. The one below looks much more Web 2.0, but I'm not sure if that's the look I should be going for. The current design of the overall site, with the exception of the search bar (I haven't done anything with it for a while), is much more grungy.
I guess logos are supposed to be clean and simple. Maybe I'll reapproach the overall site design with something lighter and cleaner.
Edit--
Now that I think of it, I think I like the first one better.
Riiiight. So, I discovered something dandy. Some sites have iFrame protection, meaning that they don't want their web pages to be displayed on another web page through the usage of frames. Three hours later, I've finally nailed down a solution. IncGamers was the culprit here. So, any links to IncGamers or any of its subsidiary Diablo sites will come up with an error in place of where the page preview would normally go:
It shouldn't otherwise affect any functionality with guide profiles. *phew*
(I was tempted and am fully capable of bypassing this silly security they have, but if they don't want this to be possible, I guess I should respect that wish.)
Edit---
AHA! And now there's yet ANOTHER bug with the patch I made to fix the original one. *sigh*
Update
Clicking on a link from a search will now take you to the guide's profile on Firebolt. I plan to add some more features to this area, but it essentially lets you preview the guide in Firebolt without leaving the site (the guide's website still gets traffic because of the mechanics of iFrames). (See Screenshot)
This feature has been tested in the latest stable versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
Coming for this Feature
-Show guide's keywords on profile.
-Allow report guide function from profile (currently on search results.)
-Show guides with related keywords (sorted by number of related keywords and then number of hits.)
-Provide banner image from profile that can be posted anywhere to advertise each guide.
Other Updates
The search results now have less clutter. Removed total hits (moved to guide profiles). Got rid of some excess verbiage.
i dont see any issue with %block modifiers since you do have the %block input box. however, you might want to separate base %block from +%block modifiers (HS, GAngel). i have a link to someone else's calculators, i think they are pretty accurate so lmk if u want that link
Yes, I saw that other calcs were built like that. I can do that.
Exactly. And then I have a clusterfuck* of a GUI and five hundred more lines of code. Custom logic would need to be programmed for Spirit Ward and then additionally for each runeword, and then additionally for each character. I would need nearly an entire item database to get this simple information.
I don't really think it's worth it when you can just go to the wiki, search for the item, and pop the block percentage into the calc that you guys already provide so completely and generously. I guess if I see it's getting an immense amount of web traffic in analytics, I'll consider more user-friendly functionality. But, as far as I can see, there isn't a block calculator out there that goes much beyond what I did. (http://diablo3.ingame.de/tips/calcs/block.php, http://www.baronsbazaar.invisionzone.com/ppr/block_calc.html)
I'm trying to think of a midway point, though, between reinventing the entire inventory system in our web browsers and getting the information to users.
* Nothing personal. I just like that colloquialism
Edit-- Idea. I can have a box, right, and they can just type in their shield name, right, and then that opens as a link to the shield's page in a new tab to the wiki. Can just look it up themselves. That would make it a little easier.
So in short Mags, everything that you coded actually works perfectly it seems. It's just that the keyword smiter isn't actually present as a keyword on the actual smiter build.
Now, that is a relief. I spent hours trying to figure out how the fuck it wouldn't work. It was just a logical error. There used to be a guide that used that keyword, but I had to delete it for some reason and I forget why.
also, some guides while really interesting in presentation, lack the sort of meta-game explanations. for this example, we'll take the (uber) smiter guide:
Amulet
Mara's Kaleidoscope or Highlord's Wrath
now, why maras vs. highlords? of course anyone who has played 2-3 months will know the difference, but its not elucidated in the guide itself, which mostly newbies would use. However, to point out, highlords %ds does not effect smite damage. thus the only useful mods that ammy would provide would be light res and the +1 skill, whereas for an uber build, maras provides all res and +2 skills. However, the guide is not solely based on uber, so highlords is a possibility if and only if the character was a hybrid smite/melee - zeal, charge, etc.
not to pick on who ever wrote it, or the site, as a self described compendium i did not expect to find large 24 page guides, but i did expect a little more than, hey use maras or hl, without a proper explanation as to why (so what if you cannot find either ammy? why are those ammys top choices? if you understand those basics you can figure out the mechanics and find alternates; the teach a man to fish thing...)
graphically though, its much better than other sites kutgw!
Hence why you can report guides if you think their information is insufficient Every guide is not going to be perfect; the idea is that it will contain better ones overall.
lol i dont think he can do anything about it, maybe put up a comments and criticisms section. maybe have a reviewer, its based off wiki isnt it? i wouldnt know since i dont deal with web site design, but i do read guides; fancy graphics and cool presentation can only do so much to cover up lack-luster guides.
I can very easily add commenting, but the problem is that the guide author is not necessarily going to check firebolt for comments. It would be most effective to message the creator somehow on the site that the link goes to. Wiki pages all have discussion tabs on the top for our wiki. I don't know about other wiki's or websites. A lot of them are from forums.
I'm going to add a rating system, so that's something similar. But that isn't going to come until I iron out this situation so it doesn't happen again.
@Kris: Yes, that's doable. How many tags do you think guides should be limited to?
(Also: should patch version be a required separate field for every guide? I've been thinking this may be something important I overlooked. Currently, you can tick patch versions, but it's not required...)
Thanks for sticking with me here, apples. I really appreciate your feedback.
If the pop-up box is not appearing for you at all, then you very likely have something blocking javascript to some extent, apples. Maybe you set ad blocker to block things on the page, or have some safety feature blocking features on the page.
Try again now. Does the search button work for you?
I adjusted the response time from 300 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds. Has anything changed?
Would you be willing to post a few screenshots?
1. Before you click on the search box.
2. After you have typed (but not clicked search) a word or part of a word in the search box.
3. Anything else you think looks odd.
Have you tried other browsers?
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@Shatterer:
1) Browser/Browser version.
2) Do you have any add-ons or extensions enabled?
--> Please disable them and reload the page to see if anything has changed.
3) Do you ever experience large amounts of latency with your internet connection?
4) Are you running off a PC/notebook/netbook or a handheld device?
5) Does the pop-up show on the bottom of the screen (if you haven't already clicked don't show again on it)?
6) Does the Search button work for you (can you click it)?
7) Would you be willing to take several screenshots so I can address the problems you're experiencing?
--> Before you click on the search box.
--> After you have typed (but not clicked search) a word or part of a word in the search box.
--> Anything else you think looks odd.
8) Have you tried other browsers or is the problem uniform on all of your browsers (if you have a windows system, you will always have at least IE installed- the latest automatic update included an upgrade to IE9).
Guide profiles no longer show a preview of the guide's respective link. It simply caused to much trouble to pin down with any reliability for every possible URL and account for the desires of the respective webmasters.
They now contain all the search keywords of the guide (you can click on each of these to start a new search based on that keyword), as well as an indexed list of possible related guides.
Coming for this Feature
- Show guide's keywords on profile.- Allow report guide function from profile (currently on search results.)
-Show guides with related keywords (sorted by number of related keywords and then number of hits.)- Provide banner image from profile that can be posted anywhere to advertise each guide.
Other Updates
- Coming soon: New Firebolt logo.
- Coming soon: Site redesign.
Possibilities
- Support for Diablo I.
I actually like this one a lot because it reminds me of the Scroll of Identify skill icon and the Fire Bolt skill icon mixed together.
I like that you worked the concept into the name, but... Hrm. It actually says Torchlight to me more than Diablo. Maybe it's in the simplicity of the flame? (Maybe I should do one for Torchlight--I love that game.)
Agh, this is a tough call. The one below looks much more Web 2.0, but I'm not sure if that's the look I should be going for. The current design of the overall site, with the exception of the search bar (I haven't done anything with it for a while), is much more grungy.
I guess logos are supposed to be clean and simple. Maybe I'll reapproach the overall site design with something lighter and cleaner.
Edit--
Now that I think of it, I think I like the first one better.
Now, that is very nice! I like it. Any way you can think of working the flame into the logo? If not, this is fine.
Haha, thanks, though It's a little too much like a tag for my needs. Interesting concept! (You're much better with siggies :xD:)
Get back to writing articles--you're much, much better at that Thanks though. I'd have to agree.
Looking at all of the options (thanks!): I'd have to go with Jetrall's. Unless you had any other ideas/versions you have handy?
It shouldn't otherwise affect any functionality with guide profiles. *phew*
(I was tempted and am fully capable of bypassing this silly security they have, but if they don't want this to be possible, I guess I should respect that wish.)
Edit---
AHA! And now there's yet ANOTHER bug with the patch I made to fix the original one. *sigh*
Clicking on a link from a search will now take you to the guide's profile on Firebolt. I plan to add some more features to this area, but it essentially lets you preview the guide in Firebolt without leaving the site (the guide's website still gets traffic because of the mechanics of iFrames). (See Screenshot)
This feature has been tested in the latest stable versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Let me know if you encounter any problems.
Coming for this Feature
-Show guide's keywords on profile.
-Allow report guide function from profile (currently on search results.)
-Show guides with related keywords (sorted by number of related keywords and then number of hits.)
-Provide banner image from profile that can be posted anywhere to advertise each guide.
Other Updates
The search results now have less clutter. Removed total hits (moved to guide profiles). Got rid of some excess verbiage.
...Oh.
Yes, I saw that other calcs were built like that. I can do that.
I don't really think it's worth it when you can just go to the wiki, search for the item, and pop the block percentage into the calc that you guys already provide so completely and generously. I guess if I see it's getting an immense amount of web traffic in analytics, I'll consider more user-friendly functionality. But, as far as I can see, there isn't a block calculator out there that goes much beyond what I did. (http://diablo3.ingame.de/tips/calcs/block.php, http://www.baronsbazaar.invisionzone.com/ppr/block_calc.html)
I'm trying to think of a midway point, though, between reinventing the entire inventory system in our web browsers and getting the information to users.
* Nothing personal. I just like that colloquialism
Edit-- Idea. I can have a box, right, and they can just type in their shield name, right, and then that opens as a link to the shield's page in a new tab to the wiki. Can just look it up themselves. That would make it a little easier.
I did it that way to stress how much of a chance you don't have to block without having to state it specifically. That's an easy fix, though.
That's doable. My only concern is that it could get very complicated... Are there any shields with variable % to block modifiers? Like, say, a unique?
Edit~
Erp, almost forgot- I fixed that data association error, apples.
True.
Now, that is a relief. I spent hours trying to figure out how the fuck it wouldn't work. It was just a logical error. There used to be a guide that used that keyword, but I had to delete it for some reason and I forget why.
Hence why you can report guides if you think their information is insufficient Every guide is not going to be perfect; the idea is that it will contain better ones overall.
I can very easily add commenting, but the problem is that the guide author is not necessarily going to check firebolt for comments. It would be most effective to message the creator somehow on the site that the link goes to. Wiki pages all have discussion tabs on the top for our wiki. I don't know about other wiki's or websites. A lot of them are from forums.
I'm going to add a rating system, so that's something similar. But that isn't going to come until I iron out this situation so it doesn't happen again.
@Kris: Yes, that's doable. How many tags do you think guides should be limited to?
(Also: should patch version be a required separate field for every guide? I've been thinking this may be something important I overlooked. Currently, you can tick patch versions, but it's not required...)
Thanks for sticking with me here, apples. I really appreciate your feedback.
Try again now. Does the search button work for you?
I adjusted the response time from 300 milliseconds to 10 milliseconds. Has anything changed?
Would you be willing to post a few screenshots?
1. Before you click on the search box.
2. After you have typed (but not clicked search) a word or part of a word in the search box.
3. Anything else you think looks odd.
Have you tried other browsers?
-----------------------------------------
@Shatterer:
1) Browser/Browser version.
2) Do you have any add-ons or extensions enabled?
--> Please disable them and reload the page to see if anything has changed.
3) Do you ever experience large amounts of latency with your internet connection?
4) Are you running off a PC/notebook/netbook or a handheld device?
5) Does the pop-up show on the bottom of the screen (if you haven't already clicked don't show again on it)?
6) Does the Search button work for you (can you click it)?
7) Would you be willing to take several screenshots so I can address the problems you're experiencing?
--> Before you click on the search box.
--> After you have typed (but not clicked search) a word or part of a word in the search box.
--> Anything else you think looks odd.
8) Have you tried other browsers or is the problem uniform on all of your browsers (if you have a windows system, you will always have at least IE installed- the latest automatic update included an upgrade to IE9).