Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 17:34:29 +0100 From: Chris Zumbrunn <chris@czv.com> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Today's Work Message-ID: <d054cfc4677f62d075334735b45f280b@czv.com> In-Reply-To: <1109982696.3926.148.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1109957682.3926.125.camel@localhost.localdomain> <33c19bc70348d13c641c496e4c1de07c@czv.com> <1109982696.3926.148.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mar 5, 2005, at 1:31 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 19:58 +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: >> On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> >>> 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? >> >> The dropdown box with the black border could extend >> upwards to include the menu title as the first list item. >> For consistency, the menu titles anyway have to be either >> all linked or all not linked - and all linked is probably the >> better direction to go. >> >> The dropdown menu lists should probably be left-aligned >> and positioned so that the text of the menu title doesn't >> move when it is hovered over. >> >> Dropdown menus have the drawback that you do no >> longer get an overview of the site structure at a glance. >> You have to browse through the menus to see what's >> there. > > This is true. Again, this is a WIP, there's still a lot to be done > here. I don't mind the dropdown menu at all, by the way. I just wanted to point out the side effects this change will have. >>> o Moved news and press to the bottom of the >>> main content. The main content could use a >>> change. >> >> Someone might argue that news and press are the reason >> why they access the first page and that they do not want >> to have to scroll down. Currently, they get "lost down there". >> Not sure what the best solution would be. In order for the >> site to scale well with different window width, we really >> could keep three columns. Otherwise the readability of the >> advocacy text suffers because it runs to wide. > > My idea was that a lot of the main content text will be removed / > replaced / reworded (or a combination of all three). My idea is that > the > PR and News will come further to the top after doing this. Perhaps I > should have left this for later; it seems a lot of people have gotten > the wrong idea with this. I'll make a suggestion for a short reworded intro text, followed by the news and press. > I also want to give ``news shorts.'' That is, provide a short (first 30 > word) summary of the news. My XSL foo isn't great, is this possible > with > XSL macros? > >>> o Made two separate color themes for the site. >>> More themes can be made styling the site in >>> pretty much any way imaginable. >> >> Now that I see it, I realize that a blue tone will not work >> for the headlines if we also use blue for the links. If we keep >> the links blue then nothing else should be blue. >> >> /czv > > Is your Perforce account set up? Feel free to commit extra stylesheets > with different color combinations (or do whatever else work you feel is > necessary!) Yes, I got it, thanks. /czv
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