Magic page is up. Check it out, tell me what you think. Thanks to Luce for loaning me some web space, get the heck away from AOL.

http://krinahd.lucerella.com/MagicNotes.html
http://krinahd.lucerella.com/TrailNotes.html

Rest of the site will be up, piece by piece. Trails page is already moved over (link above), I will add a portal page soon, to make things easier, and have several other pages already being planned.

~~~Krin

Great job on your site Krin! This will be a great help.

Naturn

The Treehouse has been updated. Now, there's a main page to bounce all the others from:

http://krinahd.lucerella.com/RangerNotes.html

If you leave of the file name and let the server try to pull up the default file, a temp page will reroute you to the right place. A basic tree has been established for the site, to be fleshed out later. Most have at least a placeholder tho a couple still have dead links until I put together placeholder pages for them.

Also, a bonus. One of my first JScript projects was a reminder chart for what herb heals where. It was just a bunch of radio buttons to click on and a single text box readout, but I have always wanted to make it something more. After spending all day today making the graphic basically how I wanted it, I put the page together. Let me know what you all think:

http://krinahd.lucerella.com/HerbChart.html

When the Herbology page is actually built, I'll link it there. For now, the above direct link will work fine. You should also be able to save the page locally on your hard drive and it will work fine. The JavaScript is relatively short and is all built into the page, so there are no additional files it needs. I just have this thing for all-in-one packages, heh.

~~~Krin

Krin! get the archery page done... the ONLY reason i ever went to HER place was to remind myself of wood caps, etc. I can't find another site that deals with fletching and wood caps post-change...

or any suggestions?
muras

ah. so it does. ducks

um... krin? update it anyway, of only cuz i hate to be wrong... *winks at asterid*

>>But the archery page and the beginnings of the tanning page are next on my to-do list. The archery page will contain more than just fletching/tillering though, that will only be part of it.

One of the things missing from the wolf den that was in the handbook was the mech lore needed for the different wood types. Might be nice to have that on your site.

-pete

well, now, krin, that's exactly the info i was interested in... i didn't know if the wood caps had changed. thanks.

I love it. Great site Krin. I've been gone a couple years. With the help of other rangers and your site, I think I'm back on the road to a great adventure.

All rangers should take a look at this site. Even if you already know everything on the site, it was put together very well, and deserves a congrats!

Thanks again Krin

Oh, and one more thing ... all main pages should have placeholders now. If you get a 404 error from a link within the site, likely its a server problem, not a missing page.

And the herbology page has a link to the herb reminder I posted about a few weeks back, so no need for a direct link in case you forget it.

http://krinahd.lucerella.com/RangerNotes.html

Other day I noticed I could set up custom error pages to override the standard 404 error. I might look into that soon.

~~~Krin

<mutters>

The pages are there, but I found the problem. Gotta fix a few links. Keep forgetting that the Yahoo server is cap-sensitive and every now and then a link doesn't match and I didn't catch these.

I could just change the names of the HTML files to match the links (would be quicker, about 3 seconds) but then I would be breaking the format I use and could cause problems later. So I will just correct the links instead of changing the filenames.

Should be fixed shortly. Meanwhile, if you want to take a peek, click the link anyway and when the 404 page comes up, go to the address bar and change the letter h at the beginning of herbs and horses to an upper case H then hit enter ... the page will load fine.

~~~Krin

Yeesh. I'll see what I can do on that front, thanks for the heads-up, Arct. If I just switch to all lower-case and use underscores instead of caps to highlight names, would that make it safe enough?

The bug with the herbs/horses pages not coming up is fixed. Thank god for cut'n'paste, made updating 50+ links a snap. Still tempted to use frames or the like, but I won't, for now. Instead, I am thinking of using JScript to make the links dynamic so all I have to do is update one central file (like links.js) and have all pages update themselves.

And I stand corrected ... there are still a couple pages lacking placeholders, under Scout's Guide. The links for "Skills & Stats" and "Getting Started" sdtill need placeholders.

Also, I wouldn't click the link for the Ranger Calc, think I will be taking it down until the code is finished. Just a couple functions left to code then I can start testing it. Spent most of yesterday banging my head on a wall tracking down errors. I REALLY wish JScript had more comprehensive error reporting. Trying to track down why I get "object expected" only to find out it was because a single bracket was out of place, causing the JScript to be totally unloaded is really annoying when you have to dig through a hundred lines of code or so to do it.

~~~Krin
I know, Arct, I know ... just wait until I have to dig through tens of thousands of lines (if not millions) to find those errors ... but at least one would HOPE when working on those sorts of systems you get a lot better error messaging ... hell, even my Commodore 64 was better at error reporting than JScript is

Added 5 new pics to the pics page and restored the pages to using standard links at the top and bottom for the nav bars, rather than the new style I was trying out that wouldn't work on some people's browsers.

The pics page still uses that trick, going to try and set up a simpler page, similar to the old style Taffei used to use for pics pages, for those with incompatible browsers.

Also going to try and get a basic page up for the archery section sometime today. Almost seems a moot point with Fletching v2.0 in the works, but there are those who could likely use the information now, and it sounds like the information may still be usable for making "basic" bows, guess we'll just have to wait and see how the final system turns out.

~~~Krin

argh, I get it to paste in and all Krin, but I must be stupid, where is the button, or what do I do to get it to calculate? Right now I see my current skills pasted in, and what is required, and when I click the difference button, it all looks just the same. Am I supposed to see somewhere what I still need to work on?

Lyr, the dense

<<You paste your exp in the box, type the circle you are trying for, and check the "difference" button, then it tells you what you need to get for that circle =)>>

Does that work for you? Doesn't for me. :(

Lyr

Did exactly that, just get all the requirements for the circle, not a difference. Am pasting in EXP ALL as it says. I guess it just does't like me. Thanks for help though!

If it shows no difference, then you don't need anything to circle. Please note that these are the new reqs, which aren't yet in effect.

~Dulci


"Keep your friends close but your enemies closer."

yeah the calc is wrong when you want the difference. It keeps telling me I need 110 multi but I have well above 110. I was busting up laughing. Krin mussed up again. Can we all say loser! Just kidding bud, but it was a good attempt to put a face on our reqs. I rate that right up there with the Webba being a goodie goodie, it don't work.


Arctuniol

"In an open world, Who needs windows or gates?"

>>COUTUREM>>I pasted my exp all, typed in the circle that I wanted, clicked the difference button and it just shows me the requirements for that circle, not how much I need.

>>Arct>>yeah the calc is wrong when you want the difference

Newp. I just tested it again and even followed the same sequence of steps COUTUREM mentioned. It works fine, here. I was very careful and made sure to put in place enough trigger events to make sure all bases were covered.

Best I can figure is it's a browser problem. Those of you having trouble getting it to work, are you using MSIE? If not, what are you using?

Either way, I am not messing with it. It seems to work fine as long as you are running MSIE and I am sticking with my general rule: over 75% of the site hits are registering as MSIE 6.0 or compliant so that is what I am going with. Trying to cover every little browser someone might want to use means tripling the work and I just don't have the time or energy. They want to use the calc, they can spend the few minutes to install MSIE.

I know, Ryan, I hate MicroSlop too. But they DO have the best tools in some cases and I refuse to handicap myself over a grudge.

Someday I will have my VBasic compiler and be able to make a standalone EXE version of this. Meantime, this is what we have.

~~~Krin

Krin,

When I use you calc (great site, BTW) it says that I need one more LE, however my secondary weapon is brawling (ME is primary) and I shouldn't need any with the new reqs. Is brawling no longer considered a weapon, or is the calculator not recognizing it? Thanks!


-Seck

"War must be...but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.."

Brawling works for other guilds barbs/clerics


Da Not So Madd Webba