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Forza Studios: Beta Launched

Tuesday / 14 June 05

Forza StudiosA month ago we launched the first bits and pieces of a new community site titled Forza Studios, focusing on the recently released simulation racer Forza Motorsport for the Xbox console. It’s a project I had been working on and off for three months, having done everything from the front-end to the back-end.

The design is conventional in the gaming community, matching the look and feel of the Forza Motorsport game resulting in being instantly familiar to gamers. It’s being powered by semantic markup with CSS and a pinch of unobtrusive Javascript separating the three at birth.

I am quite happy with the result, even though there always are many things in need of tweaking. The plan was to quickly add our main service after beta launch, but, unfortunately, university and other obligations are stopping me from doing so. Funny how such things always tend to happen.

Posted in Design | 8 Comments

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1Dom posted:

14 June 05, 10:33:40 AM

Hey Jeroen, that's a really nice site.

When you say it matches the look and feel of the game, do you mean it's the same design?

Maybe you could post a link to a screenshot of the game.

Nice one.

2Robert Nyman posted:

15 June 05, 14:02:48 PM

And it validates! :-)

3Jeroen Mulder posted:

15 June 05, 15:33:14 PM

Robert, supposedly it even works almost flawlessly (one tiny error on the frontpage) in MSIE5/Mac :-P

Only checked the frontpage though.

4Tom posted:

15 June 05, 17:52:29 PM

MSIE5/Mac needs to die, Jeroen is looks cracking. Good luck with the whole project.

5David Moyle posted:

15 June 05, 20:48:10 PM

You never asked for more then the frontpage :P
Give me a message on MSN or something, if you would like me to check other pages for you Jeroen.

Catchya Later!

6Eddie posted:

16 August 05, 01:52:01 AM

When you click and slightly drag on the top orange background sections you notice the text behind the images to appear, maybe making it transparent or adding a display: none; proerty might be helpful?

Unless however that is just there for accessibility. :)

7Jeroen Mulder posted:

17 August 05, 07:37:55 AM

Eddie - It is. It's an annoying disadvantage of the image replacement method I used there. Meanwhile, I've developed a slightly different one, which is implemented only in the title graphic of the site -- it doesn't have any of those issues.

display: none works, but then screenreaders would ignore it as well. We don't want that. ;-)

8Prezerwatywy posted:

20 June 06, 01:51:27 AM

thanks for this good job

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