10-11-2023, 08:35 PM
@grymmjack Keep sharing those ideas! It's always nice to try out new things. They don't always pan out as we envision, (I know I've certainly had a countless number of things that ended up completely differently than I'd imagined when starting them.), but they're always nice to help expand our knowledge and life experience.
Who knew changing a simple forum banner would disrupt so many folks work flow?!!
I never would've guessed such a thing when we started asking for an animated banner! Things didn't pan out quite as expected this time around. Who knows about next time? We'll learn from the experience and grow with it, and avoid the same issues in the future. Life is about experimenting and innovation, and disrupting status quo isn't a terrible thing.
Honestly, I think about the simplest way we could've still made this thing work would've been to divide the banner area into 3 <div> columns. Place a logo on either side of the animated banner... Folks could click the QB64PE "flaming bird" logo that we've been using for a while now on the left side of the page, and it'd work as a redirect/refresh back to the main board. Click the QBJS Logo (is there a QBJS logo yet?) to start/stop the animation on the banner itself.
We'd end up with the best of all worlds, but nobody knew such a setup would be required this time around to make things keep working more-or-less as usual, while adding new functionality/animation to the logo.
Things didn't work out this time around, but there's always the future!
Who knew changing a simple forum banner would disrupt so many folks work flow?!!
I never would've guessed such a thing when we started asking for an animated banner! Things didn't pan out quite as expected this time around. Who knows about next time? We'll learn from the experience and grow with it, and avoid the same issues in the future. Life is about experimenting and innovation, and disrupting status quo isn't a terrible thing.
Honestly, I think about the simplest way we could've still made this thing work would've been to divide the banner area into 3 <div> columns. Place a logo on either side of the animated banner... Folks could click the QB64PE "flaming bird" logo that we've been using for a while now on the left side of the page, and it'd work as a redirect/refresh back to the main board. Click the QBJS Logo (is there a QBJS logo yet?) to start/stop the animation on the banner itself.
We'd end up with the best of all worlds, but nobody knew such a setup would be required this time around to make things keep working more-or-less as usual, while adding new functionality/animation to the logo.
Things didn't work out this time around, but there's always the future!