All right, you guilted me into it. Better.
Veerrrrry Nicce
is Voidstate down?
There's still an issue with it, which is that the right side of the page is gonna get cropped by the printer. But a man can solve only so much in one day. 
Oh and geordan – happy to send you the PSD I made this with if you think it would help. I just intended it as a mockup, not production-ready, so I cut a few corners, but if you want it...
I'm working in HTML, so ideally I'd like it in HTML so I can work from it directly. I had a friend translate the header part with some CSS trickery, so I'm using that as a baseline for how to do the rest. I don't think I can get every detail of the mockup, but I'll try to evoke the general design.
I'm cutting down on the backgrounds, partially because my precious toner/inkjet cartridges and partially because browsers are notoriously crap at printing backgrounds properly.
I'm not sure how your app is structured, but I might recommend having it format out a PDF file for printing, if possible!
It's done entirely in JavaScript, except for the backend that saves the data to the database; generating PDFs myself would be pretty rough (and hard on the browser). Most browsers will print to PDF anyway, so it's redundant to reproduce that functionality.
No, you would want to do this on the design-side end, I'd think. The point is not so much the printability but the layout. In a different life, I would have known how to do this in PHP, but that knowledge is gone now.
I was talking about the printed design with a friend, and we tossed around the idea of having spots on the printout to place the actual upgrade and pilot cards, to facilitate set up. Good idea? Bad idea? Should the printout be a replacement for cards? An augment?
It would be nice to have a print out do a page for each ship with pilot and any upgrades.
So one does not need to get out the cards to play
it would also be nice to input custom pilots...
I was talking about the printed design with a friend, and we tossed around the idea of having spots on the printout to place the actual upgrade and pilot cards, to facilitate set up. Good idea? Bad idea? Should the printout be a replacement for cards? An augment?
I like that idea, and originally planned on doing it with my design, but it took up a lot of space on the page, and then also takes up a lot of table space, as you essentially must leave the entire sheet on the table during play. Still not sure that it's a BAD idea necessarily, but I went a different direction after thinking it over.
Well, I've pushed a new version up with a fancier list view/printout, based largely on your design. There are some things I had to remove due to feasibility and visibility (notably, backgrounds on the upgrades).
There is a bug on Firefox where a black background appears for some reason behind the page and pilot header bars. Also, the scaling is messed up. CSS gurus, please chime in!
Browser printing is a bear.
Anyway, let me know what you think! And apologies for any mangling of your design that has occurred.
Looks pretty good! Don't worry about mangling anything, it's a free design to use however you want!
I cant get anything to work. I have registered 3 accounts, clear brower data etc etc
I get User does not exists and nothing loads what ever I try to do.
I cant get anything to work. I have registered 3 accounts, clear brower data etc etc
I get User does not exists and nothing loads what ever I try to do.
Yeah seems 100% busted to for me. If you try and add an upgrade it loads forever and it totally ignores your collection when you use random squadron
Voidstate seems to be working mostly fine for me now, but the Collection is all wrong. Every time I save it, it seems to choose entirely different numbers from the ones I entered to save! And they don't always seem to be the same numbers, either. Bizarre.
It's a neat feature, especially for tracking how many upgrade cards you have, so I hope he comes back and fixes it soon!