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Blackout site and splash screen updated...

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  • 15-11-2001 4:54am
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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    The Blackout website has been fairly extensively reorganised and rewritten. The splash page has been amended to be shorter and more to the point, so if you've already downloaded it, I would be quite chuffed it if you got the newer version.

    The PDF document put together so well by Elana's mammy-in-law is now available for download on the site - that can be used as a poster or flyer - and a banner and button are also available. Tomorrow I'll be adding all of the press stuff, plus the surprisingly large number of sites that have committed to going offline on Friday. Note that even if you're going to be carrying a button or banner, I want to hear about it. So be sure to add your URL if you want some free advertising!

    If you have a little spare time, please have a look around at the reorganised site, and be sure to PM me if you spot any glaring errors, or even simple mistakes.

    http://blackout.irelandoffline.org/

    Thanks,
    adam


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    corkie
    Registered Users Posts: 7,454 ✭✭✭corkie



    Click here for screenshot
    Just wondering?


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    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Thats a good 404 page so it is.

    DM


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Uh, when I finished the website last night I remembered that the "old" site had a fairly drastically different structure, and that people might get four-oh-four's. So I had a few minutes to spare (ok, I was hopped up on too much Pepsi Max), and got creative...

    adam


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Just a note on this - the reason corkie was worried about this is that he had an automatic redirect to the IrelandOffline Blackout webpage on his website, as opposed to hosting the page locally. To clarify, although I appreciate any traffic pointing to our server, I would really encourage people to load the page locally, because automatic redirects can be misleading.

    Think about this from the users perspective - they type in your URL or follow a link and automatically get pushed to blackout.irelandoffline.org. Yes, the page is self-explanatory, but unless they see your URL in the Location bar, I think they may not understand exactly what's happening. So if you can, I'd appreciate if you downloaded the page and hosted it locally.

    Thanks,
    adam


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    corkie
    Registered Users Posts: 7,454 ✭✭✭corkie


    No problem I downloaded and uploaded to my own site.

    The page I had it pointed was the old splash page on your site
    and you deleted or move that. And I wasn't to sure if you had created the 404 page or had been hacked into.

    Well I had configure all my pages with a small bit of javascript to
    auto redirect to your site at midnight. So a quick edit and I have
    them pointing at my own page.

    But when your page loads the css styles and banner at top from your own site what doesn't it matter if we download the page or not?

    So I have edit a small bit and used my own stlye sheet. I will also copy the top image over to server.

    Check it out here

    P.S. That is a new site (and my older sites will point at that instead of your page]


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    12free.co.uk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭12free.co.uk


    where is the updated splash screen ? Have you got a zip file with the css aswell ?


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Hi Daniel,

    You'll find the details here. The stylesheet and header image are sourced from the Blackout website, but if you want to host them locally, that's fine:

    Style Sheet

    Header Image

    adam


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Corkie, I sourced the stylesheet and image from the Blackout website for simplicity, so people wouldn't have to edit the HTML. Of course, you're welcome to host them locally if you want. In future, I'll probably package the whole thing as a archive. We live and learn! And hopefully we won't have to do this again. :)

    adam


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    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    I changed the banner to fit my own web page better. If anyone wants to see it, see http://www.evertype.com


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    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    Originally posted by dahamsta
    ....Tomorrow I'll be adding all of the press stuff, plus the surprisingly large number of sites that have committed to going offline on Friday. Note that even if you're going to be carrying a button or banner, I want to hear about it. So be sure to add your URL if you want some free advertising!

    I'd like my URL added... but where do we do that?


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Done.

    http://www.irelandoffline.org/blackout/credits/participants/

    adam


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    Yoda
    Registered Users Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭Yoda


    What I'm doing is I've put a small banner on my page today. I'll go totally black tomorrow, and then for the rest of the weekend and maybe Monday my regular page will still sport the small banner.


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