Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 03:12:30 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/BSD/ Message-ID: <3567C85E.24F441B9@aei.ca> References: <3566754B.78B28C72@aei.ca> <19980524022609.21670@welearn.com.au> <356772AE.C76BAB13@aei.ca> <19980524154624.58829@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: > On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 09:06:54PM -0400, Malartre wrote: > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 03:05:48AM -0400, Malartre wrote: > > > > I dont know where to mail that post, so I mail it to advocacy ;-) > > > > > > > > I've worked some hours on a new concept for a new FreeBSD.org page. > > > > > > Why? What exactly were you aiming to alter? > > > > > > > Its not perfect, links are broken and there is no new graphics. > > > > > > > > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/BSD/ > > > > > > Sure, it doesn't fit in my browser window yet. The real one does. > > > > > > I'd like to hear what it is that you think needs changing, before looking > > > at how you're suggesting it could be done. > > > > Sue, present me a screen shot of your web browser when it dont fit and say to > > me your resolution. It work really good with netscape and lynx.... > > I've mailed it to you. > > As you will see, there's a large blank margin on the left and on the > right, and the two columns of text in the centre overlap each other. > I can't see the end of some of the words on the left. > > Other words appear as a list, but I think that some of those words are > supposed to appear together as a single phrase. They don't. > > The bottom half of the page has no text on the left, only a section to > the right of the centre. The four graphics at the bottom are not centred > with respect to this text, and are bunched up. On the FreeBSD site these > four are nicely spread out over the width of the window, whatever size > that window is. > > These are the things that happen when you try describe screen layout > instead of describing the document and letting the client handle it. > > > I really want to do it right just for you ;-) > > That's not a good reason :-) > Besides, it should be right for anybody. It should not work just for my > window, but it should work for every possible window size. > > > It work for me with > > Lynx > > Netscape 4.04 (640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 without any trouble. There is no > > horisontal scrolling) > > MSIE-3.2 (Its not so beautiful with it, but its compatible) > > Did you validate the HTML yet? > > > There is a need to change the link allocation. > > The current page work like a tree > > FreeBSD.ORG --> 10 major choice of URL (3 are at the end of the page... > > Getting FreeBSD, FreeBSD FAQ and Handbook. That stupid to put them there.) > > -->All other link > > > > My page work like that: > > FreeBSD.ORG --> All link (like that, no need to search for the Y2K bug: its > > on the top) > > OK, now that I know what your objectives are I can take a proper look at > it with that in mind. It seems like the main thing you wanted to do was > to put links on the first page which lead to most of the other pages. > That is a nice idea, and you've made a very good start on that part of it > even though it's impossible for me to see it in its best light at the moment. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- The main problem is OK nowthere was an error, I have forget to do that: CELLPADDING=3 The problem should now be ok. The main problem with your browser setting his than you have modified how big you want to see letters. Its ok, now than I have putted a cellpading. I even tested it with more bigger letter than yours. Now, your problem is than there is a lot of wasted space on the down left side. But there is not a lot of thing to do, that's a main problem when you do 2 vertical line. Also:WIDTH=600 have nothing to do with that problem. For the wasted space on the *left and right*, it should not be wasted when you see the page in the habitual way: there is not to much vertical scrolling. "Did you validate the HTML yet?" I try right now Never forget than when you change the way IN netscape you look a page, you get a good effect but you are penalized on a lot of sites. Its you who take the choice. A problem in Netscape is when you change Fonts Size, you do not change Width size, so it create your problem. To make a site more usefull or more beautiful, sometime you have to do choice. My choice: 99% of the people should not have any problems to see it. 1% should see it without problems, its not so beautifull for them but they can easily read it. 0% should have major problem to read it. Now it should work well for you, but you do not have the more beautiful site in the world. Send me a screen shot of how you see it now. What version of netscape do you use? Anyone can test my page with Chimera and other broswers? Tanx Malartre -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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