On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Kadal Amutham <vka...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Dear Mr. Rob > >> >> > >> >> Check the following ling thewink.in/AOO/. I have modified the page. > >> Let me > >> >> have your comments. > >> >> > >> > > >> > If you send me a zip of the page (and rescaled images) I can copy them > >> > into a test dir on the openoffice.org server. That way we can see > how > >> > it would look with the site template applied. > >> > > >> > >> Here is the page, with the site template applied: > >> > >> http://www.openoffice.org/test/awardsVK/index.html > >> > >> It is certainly better organized than what we had before. But I > >> think the first 3 rows should be outside of the table, as normal <h2> > >> and <p>. > >> > >> It looks like there was a character set conversion issue that killed > >> some apostrophe's in the text, but that will be easy to clean up. > >> > >> I wonder if it would be worth putting the date in its own column? > >> > >> What do others think? > >> > > > > I think we should remove the table, and apply the style used on the books > > URL. > > > > Something like this: > > > > <li class="ooo3x"> > > <span class="pubdate"> > > 2012 > > </span> > > <span class='title'> > > OpenOffice 3.4 Volume I: Writer > > </span> > > (<a href=" > > http://www.amazon.com/OpenOffice-3-4-Writer-Black-White/dp/1480224324/ > > ">Amazon</a>) > > <br /> > > Christopher N. Cain and Riley W. Walker, Quantum Scientific Publishing, > > November 2012, ISBN 978-1480224322<br /> > > The OpenOffice series provides step-by-step instructions on navigating > > basic, as well as advanced features within the Apache OpenOffice 3.4. > > </li> > > > > and CSS: > > .support li { > > background: #F5F7FA url('lightfade.gif') right repeat-y; > > margin-bottom: 5px; > > border-bottom: 1px solid #C0CBDB; > > padding-left: 20px; > > padding-bottom: 5px; > > border-left: 5px solid #C0CBDB; > > } > > .support li:hover { > > background: #E9EBEE url('darkfade.gif') right repeat-y; > > } > > > > > > What would you do with the images? That was the messy part of the > original http://www.openoffice.org/awards page. Images of different > size and mixed left and right placement. The images are the jewels in > the treasury. But the book page doesn't need to deal with images. > > If you have time to put together a simple prototype I'd love to see > what this would look like. > Well the images issue are somewhat solved already on the prototype you showed. if you look at the source, they specify the width-height already. example: <img src="images/bossie-2012.png" alt="InfoWorld's Bossie (Best Of Open Source) Awards - September 2012" width="100" height="100" border="1" ; > <img src="images/ec2012.png" alt="Editor's Choice 2012 Award" width="100" height="100" border="1" ; > and so on. You would only need to have something like .support img { float: left; padding-right: 1em; } of course if you want to look adventurous there are some CSS to 'normalize' the images by % and max-width. Here is an example http://clagnut.com/sandbox/imagetest3/ I'll prototype something tonight. > > -Rob > > > > > > >> > >> -Rob > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -Rob > >> > > >> > > >> >> Others also can comment so that the page can be improved further > >> >> > >> >> With Warm Regards > >> >> > >> >> V.Kadal Amutham > >> >> 919444360480 > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Alexandro Colorado > > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > > http://es.openoffice.org > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
