From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 17:34:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB0116A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:34:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4095043D1D for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:34:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.136] (port=57630 helo=smtp5.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D7GhK-0005ZD-Ep for www@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:34:46 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.72.18.239]:34631 helo=192.168.1.104) by smtp5.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D7GhH-0003dZ-1Z for www@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:34:43 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: www@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: SiteTronics Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:34:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1109957682.3926.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Today's Work X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:34:47 -0000 I'm through for the day. The following has been done in my Perforce branch (and a full build is running so that it will be available at http://dragonfly.the-bofh.org/~dodell/en/index.html) o Total cleanup of HTML. The site is now
based. All colors and whatnot are given in CSS. o Removed the left navigation column and put contents in a `dropdown' menu up top. This menu could be fixed up to look a bit nicer... Ideas? o Moved news and press to the bottom of the main content. The main content could use a change. o Moved icons under left bar; they look better there IMO. o Stylized the footer. o Corrected a small error in the include.header.xsl which caused any XSL part of the site to have a nasty header. o Made two separate color themes for the site. More themes can be made styling the site in pretty much any way imaginable. I think that's about it. The include.header.sgml and include.header.xsl still need to be updated to use
s and so do _many_ of the subpages. This is a big piece of work. I see why nobody's jumped in yet ;). I know the dropdown menu has some quirks in Safari, but it should work in Firefox and IE. If you've a Perforce account, feel free to commit changes to my repo, but you won't be able to see the changes until I sync and issue a build. Further experimentation with colors would be nice. I expected this version to cut down on page size a bit, but it hasn't as much as I had hoped. The page is only 3K smaller at the moment, and the stylesheet adds an extra 4K. It should be possible to remove some unnecessary things and save a bit of bandwidth as well :) More to come soon! --Devon