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SCWN 4.0 Coming Soon

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Scarlet (Little Upsilon)

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18 Jun 2010 12:43Link
Will this version have the war stats?
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Dave (White Giant)

All worlds
18 Jun 2010 13:25Link
Looks good any idea when this will be out? and will this version inculde some way to trade good between worlds
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Jiang Hu Warrior

All worlds
18 Jun 2010 14:18Link
nice preview of SCWN 4.0, dub!
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Dubletar

All worlds
18 Jun 2010 14:29Link
Sorry for the above, I was on my phone. Im quite busy lately, but Im connecting from my laptop to provide some info.

SCWN 4.0 Will provide a few different things.
All the features available now will be available on SCWN 4.0, but much more fine tuned.

It is called SCWN 4.0 because it will be the 4th time this year, LOL, the site is being made over. This, however, will be the final look of the website. It will include HTML, CSS, for looks, PHP/MySQL for functionality, but now Javascript for usability and flexibility.

This will allow user profiles, preferences, smaller spaces will be allowed to show multiple news events, articles, etc. (frees up space). The navigation in the site will be far easier.

One great improvement will be the way that the news is displayed. When you click on the planets, the site will show you all the news organized like a space newspaper for that world. Then you have the option to view o
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Zentrino Lives (Little Upsilon)

All worlds
19 Jun 2010 05:08Link
Looks good!
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Clement Attlee President Kildare (Fearless Blue)

All worlds
19 Jun 2010 06:26Link
Looks beautiful. Thanks again for not banning me from your site and honoring fee press. Now, please remove your wp. :)
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Dubletar (Fearless Blue)

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19 Jun 2010 12:57Link
LOL. Clement. Your welcome. and not yet ;).

Have to bring my army to full strength. Before our conflict, I did not build. And now that there is conflict, I am. Im hurrying don't worry.
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Doublestar (Fearless Blue)

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27 Jun 2010 19:35Link
Construction of the new SCWN 4.0 Site will begin this week.

It will be at
http://www.Simcountryworldnews.com/4_0.php

By the way, if there is anything else that you all would like the site to have, feel free to let me know here.
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Border C (Little Upsilon)

All worlds
27 Jun 2010 21:29Link
Can you add city maps and maybe some space trading to your site?

:)

But seriously, you are doing a great job with the site.
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Doublestar (Fearless Blue)

All worlds
11 Jul 2010 20:02Link
Major Update!

SCWN 4.0 is moving along...

Today was the first successful implementation of Javascript, Ajax, PHP, and MySQL working together.

You can see it here
Simcountry 4.0 Page

Scroll to the bottom of the page where you see the red screen. Hover over the stories on the right and watch! Dynamic! Its small now, but with that one step comes some great things!

Thats all. Will keep you posted.
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Doublestar

All worlds
25 Jul 2010 23:04Link
With the implementation of Ajax, Im experimenting with a ton of things (when I get a chance to :( ).

Anywho, Ive revamped the look of the site, and deemed it SCWN 4.1. (4 refers to 4th time ive changed the site, .1 refers to how many times the current design has been changed).

SCWN 4.1
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Jiang Hu Warrior

All worlds
26 Jul 2010 01:32Link
would be better called version 2.64.3
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Doublestar

All worlds
30 Jul 2010 23:10Link
UPDATE

Simcountry World News 4.1

I know its been some time, but Im building the site at a faster pace. Ive currently set the home page. Now that Ive streamlined the look I want to have, I will begin on the functions of the homepage.

Function #1:
Scrolling planets on the home page. Will include stats and link to "planet news" page.
(Moderate Diffuculty)

Function #2:
Login function.
(Moderate Difficulty)

Function #3:
Player feedback.
(Moderate Difficulty)

These will all be different in that they will not require a reloaded page in order to function.

Simcountry World News 4.1
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Doublestar

All worlds
31 Jul 2010 20:46Link
http://www.simcountryworldnews.com/4_0.php

Home Page of 4.1 is almost done. Placing in the login function.

PLEASE NOTE: Internet Explorer is bugging out when viewing the page. Please view the site with...
1. Mozilla Firefox
2. Google Chrome
3. Safari
4. Netscape
etc...

IE's problems will be fixed, just not immediately.
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Doublestar

All worlds
31 Jul 2010 22:05Link
Planet scroller and Login functions are done.

Now working on "planetview" page.
This page will focus on the selected world, and display its news with sleak options that dont require a page change.
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Parsifal (Kebir Blue)

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01 Aug 2010 00:00Link
looks good. i can't wait. this may just be the thing that KB needs.
thanks.
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Border C (Little Upsilon)

All worlds
01 Aug 2010 00:10Link
KB needs to be a 6 month/day world. And maybe a Caramel Frappachino from McDonald's. Those are a great pick-me-up! :)

Anyways, the only reason I played KB was that it was a 4 month world when the others (but LU) were 3. Now that GR and FB are 4 as well, KB is just the red-headed step-child of the bunch.
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Parsifal (Kebir Blue)

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01 Aug 2010 14:10Link
BC- maybe we could start a drug cartel or something to get more interest.
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Doublestar

All worlds
01 Aug 2010 18:13Link
MAJOR UPDATE!

I have successfully linked the planets together WITHOUT THE NEED TO RELOAD THE PAGE.

I was actually shooting for a bunch of applications (as I thought it'd be needed) that would update individually when a user clicks the planet they want to view. However, upon construction of my scripts, I tested it, and it updated the information for the entire page without the need of a page reload!

I now am able to duplicate what SC does with the cash market window that loads....and learned by accident!

Woosah!

What am I doing now?
Now, I am updating the page with application-like sections of the news on the planet-view page.
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Psycho_Honey (Little Upsilon)

All worlds
01 Aug 2010 19:01Link
Will there be ScWn 5.0?
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Doublestar

All worlds
01 Aug 2010 19:18Link
most likely not.

everything thing I want to do can be accomplished with what Im doing now.
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Barrenregions (Fearless Blue)

All worlds
01 Aug 2010 22:02Link
Cool Dubletar.
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Doublestar

All worlds
07 Aug 2010 15:53Link
MAJOR UPDATE

The Planet-Focused News theme has been completed on the website.

http://www.simcountryworldnews.com/4_0.php

Home Page:
The Home Page has been simplified for new visitors, and so that everyone knows the purposes/updates of the SCWN website.

Users are already able to Login.

Planet View Page:
The Main differences Ajax in using Ajax throughout the site is the ability to let users choose the news they'd like to see, when they want to see it, instead of putting everything in everyone's faces.

You can see the planetary news (of FB, KB, WG, LU, and GR) by clicking the planet from the homepage.

NEXT STAGE:
Now that the structure of the site and theme of more user-friendly focused news is set, especially the planetary news, the next thing to put into place is the User-Profiles.

1. This will be like Facebook in eas