Hi Marco,

Love it!

A couple of ideas (bike shed opinions only of course):

 * Larger fonts look friendlier.
* How many people have ever clicked the print/email icons? My guess is somewhere close to zero.
 * RSS icon should look like one, and maybe bigger.
* Like the idea of a big fat download button (example attached but don't use it as it's not mine).

Kind of hilarious to imagine how users will feel after finding Pd through a lovely friendly pure-data.info site and then being confronted with Pd's blank canvas and then lines-and-boxes for the first time. ;)

Cheers,

Chris.

On 03/07/2012 07:57 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
this is what I'm working on, started with the exhibition page, but it
could be generalized.
I only added now the background pattern of the ubuntu website, following
on the ubuntu font by chris.

This is only CSS editing, but I had to delete the navigation tab on the
top from the html.
I say so, because apparently it's "easy" to edit the plone css custom
theme, but edit the structure might be more painful.

Next I want to display images for each project and a slightly longer
description.

attached there's a screenshot..

M




On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Marco Donnarumma <de...@thesaddj.com
<mailto:de...@thesaddj.com>> wrote:

    Hey folks,

    I got my head around the CSS editing of PLONE.
    I can do the CSS job, the only downside is that it has to be done
    with Plone in development mode.
    This apparently would slow down the site a bit.

    However, fact is, if we modify a css class, this will affect the
    whole website.

    How should we handle this?
    Voting for the best style, collecting ideas, or....

    I can join Chris and send over some styles I've been trying.
    It would be great to give a better look, at least to the extent that
    the css allows.

    M



    On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Marco Donnarumma
    <de...@thesaddj.com <mailto:de...@thesaddj.com>> wrote:

        Hi Chris,

        I'm glad you did that.
        It is what I'm also doing following the discussion in the past
        week about the website.
        However, apparently it's a pain to be able to change only the
        css in the plone template.
        I'm looking into that, if somebody is more experienced than me
        in Plone, give me a shout!

        But, yes, your is a good example of how the same website could
        look much friendlier.

        talk soon,
        M


            On 03/06/2012 10:35 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
             > The one thing I miss is the news section.

            Yeah for sure.

             > It's probably a little too heavy for the frontpage, but
            how has webpd progressed?
             >
             > Is it possible to link that picture of a patch on the
            frontpage to a page with a webpd
             >
             > version of that patch?

            Yes but it almost certainly won't run and WebPd has no GUI. :)

            Maybe a simpler patch could work.

            Cheers,

            Chris.

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    The University of Edinburgh, UK
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--
Marco Donnarumma
New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
The University of Edinburgh, UK
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Portfolio: http://marcodonnarumma.com <http://marcodonnarumma.com/>
Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com
<http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/> | http://www.thesaddj.com
<http://www.thesaddj.com/> | http://www.flxer.net <http://www.flxer.net/>
Director: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net
<http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/>


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