Walkthroughs for US / Canada users

[mulletback]

Looks good! The only thing I can think of to add is that they can watch the channel without mapping it to the EPG. While watching, they can right-click the screen and choose the EPG source once they've seen enough to identify the channel.

Great point, I'll work that in.

[McBainUK]

I've got a first pass of a clear QAM walkthrough up on the wiki.

Nice work! Can a couple of US guys check it for accuracy and completeness please.

[mulletback]

Steeb & McBainUK - I hope I didn't step on your plans for Schedules Direct EPG writeup in my clear QAM walkthrough. I have put in links to the EPG/XMLTV/Schedules Direct pages.

[steeb]

Steeb & McBainUK - I hope I didn't step on your plans for Schedules Direct EPG writeup in my clear QAM walkthrough. I have put in links to the EPG/XMLTV/Schedules Direct pages.

Absolutely not from my perspective. Looks fantastic work to my eye

But (why does there always have to be a but from me )

The larger images from points 2 & 3 are quite a wide pixel size and on lower res screens will force a browser horizontal scroll bar, which does not always look so nice.

Great stuff mulletback

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

The larger images from points 2 & 3 are quite a wide pixel size and on lower res screens will force a browser horizontal scroll bar, which does not always look so nice.

And on reflection I should have been more helpful on this point.

The new NextPVR webpages were designed around a user running at minimum a screen res of 1024 x 768 pix.

I think we are trying to do the same with the wiki.

Bearing in mind that the wiki sidebar takes up something like 240 px a good max size for an image size wide should be around the 800 px mark.

I don't think we ever got as far as making a note about this....

Note to self, try harder steeb to make it easier for others to know what you are talking about

I am not sure if this was ever written down, don't let my ramblings stop me from your glory of a great wiki page

looks sweet and great work mulletback.

cheers

steeb

[mulletback]

... a good max size for an image size wide should be around the 800 px mark...

That's about what I thought would look OK - now that the lawn is mowed, I can trim up the images...

...done...

[steeb]

That's about what I thought would look OK - now that the lawn is mowed, I can trim up the images... :-D

Mowing the lawn, ahhh, if only, every day I had the chance this summer in UK I got blown out by the bad weather

I think it would be fair to say that the UK had relatively no summer.....

And look at my math:

Bearing in mind that the wiki sidebar takes up something like 240 px a good max size for an image size wide should be around the 800 px mark.

240 + 800 = 1040

Now I don't think that would fit a 1024 wide image

Once again great and brilliant stuff, cheers mulletback

steeb

[mulletback]

Yeah, they ended up more like 700 wide. Thanks for the input, me with the 1650x1080 monitor needs to remember the old days when we designed for the 800x600... :eek:

[steeb]

Yeah, they ended up more like 700 wide. Thanks for the input, me with the 1650x1080 monitor needs to remember the old days when we designed for the 800x600... :eek:

I use 'we' here as loads of discussion possibly off thread?! Yes 800 x 600 de facto some time ago, we decided to move it up one notch, you would be surprised how many people are still running 1024 as their base res

[whurlston]

The new NextPVR webpages were designed around a user running at minimum a screen res of 1024 x 768 pix.

me with the 1650x1080 monitor needs to remember the old days when we designed for the 800x600... :eek:

As of this year, only about 14-20% of people browsing the Internet run 1024x768. 80-85% run a higher resolution, a minimum of 1280 wide.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
http://www.screenresolution.org/