Developers guide for StupidZombie

THIS APPLICATION IS NOT LONGER BEING MANTAINED!

Collaboration through OpenSource

Blockhead needs your help. He is after all a stupid zombie.

You can contribute to StupidZombie in a number of ways:

by sending us an email to give us feedback
roll up your sleeves and help us with coding
if you find the SZprogram has helped you donate some money's to help support the costs associated with development and support
Even just spreading the word about StupidZombie can go a long way to helping Blockhead (banners will be coming soon).
Send an email to blockhead@stupidzombie.com

You will need Java SDK 6 or better and Ant 1.7.0 to compile this software.

mkdir stupidzombie && \
cd stupidzombie && \
svn co https://kenai.com/svn/stupidzombie~source-code-repository

trunk/ping/desktop

Go to the desired Branch or Trunk where the build.xml exists. Then create the JAR:

ant

Run the program like this and play with it to become more familiar:

java -jar StupidZombie.jar

You can use this great online debugger to see how the blog directory behaves: http://gggeek.raprap.it/debugger/

All are websafe colors listed in their hexadecimal code - I did use quite a bit gradients but they based off of these:

Stupid - 6699FF (color for stupid only in the body of text on the pages) - otherwise it is B0D0FF (official spot color) - use this one first
Zombie - 8CC83F (color for stupid only in the body of text on the pages) - otherwise it is D1F039 (official spot color)-use this one first
Purple header text: E99FFF (as seen in Contribute, OpenSource, etc.) - the big purple text with a black stroke

Colors I used for the basis of gradients come from Blockhead:

Text - all text should be black, unless they are a link then they should be blue for unvisited and purple for visited
All buttons - for right now should be white - until I can get the newly designed ones
Exception to the above - leave the menu filter buttons the purple and yellow text for now ( blog name, directory, etc.)
Make the backgrounds where the main body of text information white.

This looks a lot more balanced ties into the SZ site, and will have a uniqueness because of the heavy use of green.

The developers forum is a great place to exchange ideas and ask questions. Feel free to participate at: http://kenai.com/projects/stupidzombie/forums/developers