Saturday, October 3, 2009
Working on updating website
We are working on updating the RobertCity.com website in the next few weeks.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Forum host?
Because robertcity.com is going to soon get a bit "makeover", I want to make sure that everyone is okay with phpBB or if they want another forum host.
The ones available to us are:
phpBB
bbPress
SimpleMachinesForum
PunBB
myBB
any other free site...
What do you guys want to do? Stay here? Go to a better forum service?
http://community.robertcity.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=507&p=1082#p1082
The ones available to us are:
phpBB
bbPress
SimpleMachinesForum
PunBB
myBB
any other free site...
What do you guys want to do? Stay here? Go to a better forum service?
http://community.robertcity.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=507&p=1082#p1082
Friday, August 21, 2009
Internet back on, up coming plans
The Internet is now back on, therefore the upcoming plans can continue as planned.
RobertCity.com will soon be released, custom coded. The BibleArcade series website will also be on the web soon.
And finally, the BibleAracde pc game will be released around the end of this year.
RobertCity.com will soon be released, custom coded. The BibleArcade series website will also be on the web soon.
And finally, the BibleAracde pc game will be released around the end of this year.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Just before RobertCity.com could get updated...
Wouldn't you know, just before I was going to start updating RobertCity.com, the Internet goes out in my house.
I should be able to access the Internet within the next week.
I should be able to access the Internet within the next week.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Another big update
It's almost the end of July, the summer has been great so far, and I have just realized that the RobertCity.com Blog hasn't been updated for months! No biggie, I can fit all that has happened in one blog post.
RobertCity.com has been, you could say, lagging in updates. That's because of the time I've had to go online and work with it. Now that the summer is about over half way done, nearing the last month or so, I'm started to concentrate more on the websites and the business.
RobertCity.com will be a company that produces pc games and presents information about games, programs, articles, and computer-related news. I hope to be able to provide articles and reviews on programs and pc games, while still making pc games.
RobertCity.com looks great currently, but I'm pondering just custom making the website again, mostly because of some plans for a member's only system that I can easily add to RobertCity.com if I custom build it again.
So keep checking the website, have a great summer, and hopefully the website will be finished soon!
RobertCity.com has been, you could say, lagging in updates. That's because of the time I've had to go online and work with it. Now that the summer is about over half way done, nearing the last month or so, I'm started to concentrate more on the websites and the business.
RobertCity.com will be a company that produces pc games and presents information about games, programs, articles, and computer-related news. I hope to be able to provide articles and reviews on programs and pc games, while still making pc games.
RobertCity.com looks great currently, but I'm pondering just custom making the website again, mostly because of some plans for a member's only system that I can easily add to RobertCity.com if I custom build it again.
So keep checking the website, have a great summer, and hopefully the website will be finished soon!
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Big update
Don't you hate it when you haven't updated your company blog in a very long time? Yeah...
Well, currently we have several very popular sites and projects that have been improved in the past few months.
First off, I Love Vista, a site created just for fun, is getting a ton of comments. So many that Version 2 for that site (pretty much a new theme and a forum) will be setup soon for it. We are even thinking about a 'I Love XP' site, and a I Love Ubuntu (Linux)' site, based off of the Vista site.
BibleArcade© series is getting on a good path of work. We are currently about 1/10 complete with the pc game. But last time I updated, We were about 1/15 done, so we have improved in the last few months.
RobertCity.com is now hosted on wordpress to allow us more time to work on the game and less time to update the website the hard way.
We hope you enjoyed this quick update, and are still following and with us.
-RobertCity.com
Well, currently we have several very popular sites and projects that have been improved in the past few months.
First off, I Love Vista, a site created just for fun, is getting a ton of comments. So many that Version 2 for that site (pretty much a new theme and a forum) will be setup soon for it. We are even thinking about a 'I Love XP' site, and a I Love Ubuntu (Linux)' site, based off of the Vista site.
BibleArcade© series is getting on a good path of work. We are currently about 1/10 complete with the pc game. But last time I updated, We were about 1/15 done, so we have improved in the last few months.
RobertCity.com is now hosted on wordpress to allow us more time to work on the game and less time to update the website the hard way.
We hope you enjoyed this quick update, and are still following and with us.
-RobertCity.com
Thursday, March 19, 2009
New BibleArcade blog and website
The PC game that we are designing has a new website located at http://bible-arcade.robertcity.com. The blog is updated frequently, as well as the website.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Update on website
We had inserted a new page into the presentation and were trying to upload and overwrite the old websites (small, big, biggest), but it wouldn't update properly. Therefore, we will post the information here:
- On the first Friday in March, RobertCity.com Staff met and decided upon the layout template for the new website. A few design choices have been made, and will be researched and presented at the next meet.
- As seen on the RobertCity.com Blog, the new website will be compatible with most browsers, the ones that are used the most, including Internet Explorer, FireFox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, and Netscape.
- The website will be coded in html, tested for a few weeks, and then setup in PHP.
- The MyBB forum will be up for two more months, in May it will be closed and removed from RobertCity.com.
- The new forum, run by phpBB, is currently up and welcomes members and posts, but will not be officially opened until the MyBB forum is closed.
- RobertCity.com's newest version is called 'New Beginning'. This is version 1.0 of the New Beginning setup.
- Previous versions of RobertCity.com including the original, v2, and v3 will be publicly viewable in a few weeks on the RobertCity.com Archive website.
- More to come...
Friday, March 6, 2009
Up coming template
Today the staff have discussed the new template that will be used for the up coming 'New Beginning' RobertCity.com version. The template may not seem too much of importance, but in planning it, several big decisions were needed to be made in order to progress.
There were two very important options for us to consider, both would affect the way that visitors could view or even simply access the website. We haven't confirmed on a choice yet, a bit more research on the cons and pros is needed to be done, but what we have agreed to go forth with, is the following:
Notice the white, or in this came, gray space that 'surrounds' the website itself? The image was taken on a wide screen 1024x768 monitor, which is the smallest a wide screen mostly gets, and because most monitors that are wide screen have resolutions up to 1600x1400 and more, the 'white' space may cover over two thirds of the browser!
But of course if we choose to do a fluid template, such as this website: http://www.mybb.robertcity.com/ you may notice that if you resize the browser window, the forum will try to 'fit in' the space, until you get to a point smaller than the forum can handle. The problem with fluid templates is that those with wide screen monitors will see too much of the forum, it will stretch out and be harder to read.
It seems like neither option is great, huh? Well, when the day comes that everyone will be using wide screen 1600x1400 monitors, we'll modify our website to fit better with that, but for now, we must accommodate as many browsers and monitors as possible. Therefore we choose the static width. What about the white space problem? I'm sure those with wide monitors can both resizing their browser windows to reduce the white space, and if they refuse, oh well. All is life.
The second part of the decision, as mentioned earlier, is the browser compatibility. What's that exactly, you may ask? An Internet browser is a program that can access the Internet and display the information received as text and graphics, so that we can easily understand them. You probably either use Internet Explorer or Safari. Those are the default, or the first browser available at setup, for the Microsoft Windows operating system (Internet Explorer), or the Mac OS operating system (Safari).
You may not be using one of those, you actually may be using either FireFox, Opera, Netscape, or the newest browser, Google Chrome.
But what does this all mean? Thinking computer wise, all Internet Browsers access the Internet the same way, but they may interrupt it differently, such as when listening to someone speak a language you do not speak, vs listening to someone speak a language you do speak. The 'other' language may be harder to translate, therefore the meaning you may get out of it may be different than originally intended. Whereas listening to someone speak your langauge is easy to understand.
So Browsers can at times translate a website's information incorrectly, sometimes a lot, sometimes just a little, but regardless, that misunderstanding may affect the layout of the website, or even prevent you from accessing it at all. Why is that? Be sure to note that each browser listed above was produced by different people and groups. Therefore, they each program the browser to translate websites slightly different, sometimes for the better.
The most common difference is the font type. On a simple website, such as the WordPress site shown via a picture above, the font type may be different depending on the browser you use, and if you have changed any settings. This can cause some frustration if the webmaster wants their website to be viewed using a certain font, regardless of the browser. This is an easy problem to solve, but there are thousands of other problems with the different browsers, and one of them seems to cause a great number of them, Internet Explorer.
This browser uses different techniques than most others to translate websites. This can be good in some cases, bad in others. When designing a website that will work with all browsers, you must make sure that different types of codes will only be translated with different browsers. There is an Internet Explorer problem with widths and IE 6.0 This version of IE (short for Internet Explorer) is default on Windows XP.
When you resize IE 6.0 when viewing a website with a min/max width code (which determines how 'fit in' the website will stay), and you resize the browser to a width of 800px, the website will freeze your browser, including all other browser windows using IE 6.0. This can be very bad, no, it is horrible! But in order to avoid this, one must either not resize their browser to 800px if using IE 6.0, not access the website again, or upgrade to a newer version of IE, or switch to another browser, such as FireFox.
Some people don't want to do that, so they may leave the website, therefore you loose a visitor. This is very bad in the webmaster career. That is why you must setup a website to work with all browsers, even the occasional problems with IE.
So, to end this blog post, we are working hard to make sure that every operating system and browser can view this page properly, or at least as close to properly as possible. So please keep a look out for updates on the website's presentation, and we hope you will enjoy the 'New Beginning' of RobertCity.com.
-RobertCity.com Staff.
There were two very important options for us to consider, both would affect the way that visitors could view or even simply access the website. We haven't confirmed on a choice yet, a bit more research on the cons and pros is needed to be done, but what we have agreed to go forth with, is the following:
- The website will be static, which means that regardless of the size of the browser window that you are using to view our site with, or the size of your monitor, the website will stay the same width, such as http://community.robertcity.com.
- The website will be 'browser friendly', which means that regardless of the browser you use, you will most likely be able to view it almost the way that everyone else does. A font may be different slightly, or a section may be aligned a slight bit different, but the website as a whole will function the same.
Notice the white, or in this came, gray space that 'surrounds' the website itself? The image was taken on a wide screen 1024x768 monitor, which is the smallest a wide screen mostly gets, and because most monitors that are wide screen have resolutions up to 1600x1400 and more, the 'white' space may cover over two thirds of the browser!
But of course if we choose to do a fluid template, such as this website: http://www.mybb.robertcity.com/ you may notice that if you resize the browser window, the forum will try to 'fit in' the space, until you get to a point smaller than the forum can handle. The problem with fluid templates is that those with wide screen monitors will see too much of the forum, it will stretch out and be harder to read.
It seems like neither option is great, huh? Well, when the day comes that everyone will be using wide screen 1600x1400 monitors, we'll modify our website to fit better with that, but for now, we must accommodate as many browsers and monitors as possible. Therefore we choose the static width. What about the white space problem? I'm sure those with wide monitors can both resizing their browser windows to reduce the white space, and if they refuse, oh well. All is life.
The second part of the decision, as mentioned earlier, is the browser compatibility. What's that exactly, you may ask? An Internet browser is a program that can access the Internet and display the information received as text and graphics, so that we can easily understand them. You probably either use Internet Explorer or Safari. Those are the default, or the first browser available at setup, for the Microsoft Windows operating system (Internet Explorer), or the Mac OS operating system (Safari).
You may not be using one of those, you actually may be using either FireFox, Opera, Netscape, or the newest browser, Google Chrome.
But what does this all mean? Thinking computer wise, all Internet Browsers access the Internet the same way, but they may interrupt it differently, such as when listening to someone speak a language you do not speak, vs listening to someone speak a language you do speak. The 'other' language may be harder to translate, therefore the meaning you may get out of it may be different than originally intended. Whereas listening to someone speak your langauge is easy to understand.
So Browsers can at times translate a website's information incorrectly, sometimes a lot, sometimes just a little, but regardless, that misunderstanding may affect the layout of the website, or even prevent you from accessing it at all. Why is that? Be sure to note that each browser listed above was produced by different people and groups. Therefore, they each program the browser to translate websites slightly different, sometimes for the better.
The most common difference is the font type. On a simple website, such as the WordPress site shown via a picture above, the font type may be different depending on the browser you use, and if you have changed any settings. This can cause some frustration if the webmaster wants their website to be viewed using a certain font, regardless of the browser. This is an easy problem to solve, but there are thousands of other problems with the different browsers, and one of them seems to cause a great number of them, Internet Explorer.
This browser uses different techniques than most others to translate websites. This can be good in some cases, bad in others. When designing a website that will work with all browsers, you must make sure that different types of codes will only be translated with different browsers. There is an Internet Explorer problem with widths and IE 6.0 This version of IE (short for Internet Explorer) is default on Windows XP.
When you resize IE 6.0 when viewing a website with a min/max width code (which determines how 'fit in' the website will stay), and you resize the browser to a width of 800px, the website will freeze your browser, including all other browser windows using IE 6.0. This can be very bad, no, it is horrible! But in order to avoid this, one must either not resize their browser to 800px if using IE 6.0, not access the website again, or upgrade to a newer version of IE, or switch to another browser, such as FireFox.
Some people don't want to do that, so they may leave the website, therefore you loose a visitor. This is very bad in the webmaster career. That is why you must setup a website to work with all browsers, even the occasional problems with IE.
So, to end this blog post, we are working hard to make sure that every operating system and browser can view this page properly, or at least as close to properly as possible. So please keep a look out for updates on the website's presentation, and we hope you will enjoy the 'New Beginning' of RobertCity.com.
-RobertCity.com Staff.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
phpBB hacked
Well, this wasn't expected.
Apparently, someone was able to hack into phpBB.com, hack into the admin account, and gain access to over 300,000 passwords and usernames, including those from the support forum.
This may not seem 'horrible', but if you think about it, how many people use the same user name and/or password on every site, blog, forum, email, and other service on the internet? Many, not all, but many. This means that everyone, including RobertCity.com staff, are at major risk right now.
The following plans have been temp. canceled until further notice, to be safe:
RobertCity.com's website finished
Webmaster's Resource
The new, yes that's right, phpBB support forum switch
Any websites that are custom made under the robertcity.com domain.
We are very sorry, but we want to make sure that everyone is safe, account wise. This means changing passwords on every possible site that we are affiliated with. Yes, over 50-100 sites.
We will update this blog when things are cleared, or an update is present.
Apparently, someone was able to hack into phpBB.com, hack into the admin account, and gain access to over 300,000 passwords and usernames, including those from the support forum.
This may not seem 'horrible', but if you think about it, how many people use the same user name and/or password on every site, blog, forum, email, and other service on the internet? Many, not all, but many. This means that everyone, including RobertCity.com staff, are at major risk right now.
The following plans have been temp. canceled until further notice, to be safe:
RobertCity.com's website finished
Webmaster's Resource
The new, yes that's right, phpBB support forum switch
Any websites that are custom made under the robertcity.com domain.
We are very sorry, but we want to make sure that everyone is safe, account wise. This means changing passwords on every possible site that we are affiliated with. Yes, over 50-100 sites.
We will update this blog when things are cleared, or an update is present.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Pages not loading?
If you have visited RobertCity.com in the past few weeks, you may have noticed that most of the pages on the menu don't exist!
That's because we haven't finished them yet, but we should, as promised the beginning of this year, have most, if not all of the pages up by the first or second week of February.
That's because we haven't finished them yet, but we should, as promised the beginning of this year, have most, if not all of the pages up by the first or second week of February.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
RobertCity.com
RobertCity.com is being put on hold due to other websites that need to be managed. RobertCity.com will be up by February.
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