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"Building" a website

DragonChiq Thereian
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Join date: 4 Jun 2004
Posts: 102
04-27-2006 01:42
Hello! I had a neat idea today, build a website out of prims! It's almost 4:30 am and I just took a break from working on my website http://www.dragonchiq.com/

Earlier I started building it in Second Life! I thought it would be a more "constructive" way to make it!

Here are a few steps that I have come up with:
1) Create 2 stacked 10x10x10 hollowed out prims //This will be the background of your website

2) :: optional, this serves as columns to help you measure space between content boxes on your website:: make a "grid": 10 10m wide prims side by side 10m high (i made mine neon green so that I could tell the difference between my background and grid easier): link the "grid" and put a this script in it so you can move it out of the way when you don't need it

Slide script:
integer SWITCH;
default
{
state_entry()
{
SWITCH = 1;
}

touch_start(integer tn)
{
if(SWITCH == 0 )
{
llSetPos(llGetLocalPos() -<0,.3,0> );
SWITCH = 1;
}
else if(SWITCH == 1 )
{
llSetPos(llGetLocalPos() +<0,.3,0> );
SWITCH = 0;
}
}
}

3) Start building your website...literally...go ahead use prims to create your design! Get creative!

4) Once you're done try to take screenshots of it straight on...or use angles after all it is YOUR website and maybe you're sick of "flat" looking websites!

You will probabally end up making textures for your website in some paint program anyway but I just thought putting them on prims would be more fun, enjoy!
~DragonChiq Thereian (am I primworthy yet?) :p
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Candide LeMay
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04-27-2006 03:49
What a neat idea :)
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Alpha Vargas
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Join date: 6 Mar 2006
Posts: 96
05-05-2006 04:15
people make websites in ActiveWorlds, I was wondering when someone would in SL.

How are you going to deal with the problem of presenting content that is traditionally 2D in a 3D environment? (ex: people don't usually need to walk around an entire image, or fly over a "page" of text)
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Goshua Lament
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05-05-2006 16:00
You could use some of those particles that always face the camera for text.
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Alpha Vargas
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05-06-2006 12:39
hmm, that's a good idea Goshua...
it's possible to have a "steady" particle, right?
I'll mess around with that in-world...
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Goshua Lament
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05-06-2006 18:11
From: Alpha Vargas
hmm, that's a good idea Goshua...
it's possible to have a "steady" particle, right?
I'll mess around with that in-world...


Yeah. There was an example of this at Busy Ben's Vehichle Lot, south of Ahern.
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