X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a5a3d4a2bd987666 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-03 02:25:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?TWFya3VzIE3DtmJz?= Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: [Ascii web sites] Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 11:23:12 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Lines: 78 Message-ID: References: <3eb348bb@post.newsfeed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: limb-d930417b.pool.mediaways.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ngspool-d02.news.aol.com 1051953906 4959 217.48.65.123 (3 May 2003 09:25:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 09:25:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us, es In-Reply-To: <3eb348bb@post.newsfeed.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:22987 Annie Ascii wrote: > *** post for FREE via your newsreader at post.newsfeed.com *** > > > On 2003-05-03 nzogn@despammed.com (nzogn) said: > > > Anyone can tell me where can I find some web sites entirely built > > with ascii art instead of usual buttons, images, etc...? > > > > I would like to build my own site like this, but I'm a > > really ascii-newbie and I need some inspiration! ;) > [a lot of extremely important content] > > Just learn some HTML code, and write your own pages > with a text editor. Don't use those crappy "page > designer" programs; they suck. > > Do a Google search (www.google.com) on "HTML tutorial." > You'll find lots of information. > > One of the problems with an ASCII web site is that the > majority of people who visit the site will be using > WinDoze, Loonix, Mac X-crement, or some other kind of > gooey-based operating system. > > And they'll be using a graphical browser which defaults > to a proportional font. > > When ASCII art is rendered in a proportional font, it > looks like crap. > > Even specifying the font type in your HTML code is no > guarantee that an ASCII site will render properly in > a graphical browser. Even the "Courier" font used by > some browsers is proportional. [some extremely important content] Hey, according to the w3c you can be sure that the font will be of fixed-width if you use something like . If somebody has designed a browser that does not respect this standard then anybody who uses this piece of software does certainly not deserve to be able to view your webside... I agree: do NOT use anything like M$ Frontpage... Even real _good_ homepage designer software (is this thing called 'dreamweaver'?) is not meant to be used to build a pure ascii-art homepage. And another tip: I'd rather not use colours apart from b/w and w/b (in fact grey on black) in an ascii-art homepage for several reasons: * it looks somewhat cheap and filthy (at least I feel) * it is _hard_ to edit since you do not really see your picture anymore through all the tags... * is it ascii-art when it's coloured? Oh one more thing comes to my mind: have htmltidy or something similar to clean up your html and be extremely sure to substitute all s with the appropriate &thingy... obascii (i'm a bit out of shape): /| .-' '-=\ hmm... is it the salmon of doubt? <*_ _.-' or is it not the salmon of doubt? " -- ._.-._.-._.-. .--------------------. ) ) :------++----+-------: The way to keep it interesting ( ( | || | [mm] | these days is to do it without ) ) |_ .|' '. _| oxygen or in your underpants ( ( ( '-.// \ .-' ) or something. ) ) ', '. .' ,' -- Douglas Adams ( ( '-. ) :: ( .-' ) ) '-: :: :-' GAST(at)tilemannschule.de ( ( '----' '._.-._.-._.-.