Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:11:12PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Quick Links News -- --- -- --- -- -- Help Debian -- --- -- --- When spread out into a single column, the links are waaay too long to do this nicely, without leaving a load of empty space between News and Help. Well, there's always more news you could pad it with for filler, right? Yes, but it would take a lot more news, and that would be even more embarrassing, since it would display items as much as several months old... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: new front page, take 2.5
* Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-02-07 14:45]: Still too wide for links (80 char/line) and other conditions as previously reported. May not be critical but If you don't put nbsp; in this section (especially the Installation Instructions) it should work in 80 chars And I guess for the gui browsers it's narrow enough that it wouldn't wrap there nevertheless. At least worth a try, if you don't accept JoeyH's sugguestion. HTH, Alfie -- schneckal hat einer von euch schon bind9 installiert? _eis das neue root kit? :- -- #debian.de
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:35:25AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Still too wide for links (80 char/line) and other conditions as previously reported. May not be critical but If you don't put nbsp; in this section (especially the Installation Instructions) it should work in 80 chars Yeah, the install manual link is exactly the one that's screwing it up. I wonder, do we need the two long words, both beginning with a capital I in there? :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:23:44PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Have you thought about dropping the cyan backgrond box with the round corners? Expect a few more pages to look at, soon. :) As it is it's boxes inside the cyan box all inside my mozilla window, which is really a bit complicated when you think about it. You shouldn't be thinking about it... this is a design failure actually :) And IMHO the color clashes with the rest of the colors on the page (I think the same thing about the existing cyan box on the current debian web page.) Noted... I almost agree. Hmm, here's a layout idea. What if you took the quick links, news, and help debian, and arranged them like this: Quick Links News -- --- -- --- -- -- Help Debian -- --- -- --- When spread out into a single column, the links are waaay too long to do this nicely, without leaving a load of empty space between News and Help. I think you should make the layout and format of the dates in the news and upgrade sections more homogenoius. I agree, I'll change both of them to use the non-fixed-width variant. The date will be right-aligned and top-valigned, too. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: new front page, take 2.5
Josip Rodin wrote: As it is it's boxes inside the cyan box all inside my mozilla window, which is really a bit complicated when you think about it. You shouldn't be thinking about it... this is a design failure actually :) That's the problem with setting up a web page to have things that look vaguely like windows in it. :-) Quick Links News -- --- -- --- -- -- Help Debian -- --- -- --- When spread out into a single column, the links are waaay too long to do this nicely, without leaving a load of empty space between News and Help. Well, there's always more news you could pad it with for filler, right? -- see shy jo
new front page, take 2.5
Hi, Mostly for the yellow+black haters. :) http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2.5/ I also reviewed my notes about the quick links position and decided there wasn't enough coherence in the comments about it :) I've moved install and upgrade boxes above it, it seems a bit better. (Oops, it seems I didn't send this... apologies to Matthew.) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:09:45 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: Mostly for the yellow+black haters. :) I'm one of them, and it's _much_ better now. :-) I also reviewed my notes about the quick links [...] Is it possible to top align the columns? It looks a bit odd with different space between the frame and the first link in the columns. I've moved install and upgrade boxes above it, it seems a bit better. I agree, but the quick links are getting too far down the page (like others I prefer the navigation bar to the left). In Opera, Netscape and Internet Explorer there are frames around the news items (both the dates and the headlines), while they're not there in Mozilla and Konqueror. Please get rid of the frames in the other browers, if you can. -- Regards, Kaare - http://www.nightcall.dk/
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 18:09, Josip Rodin wrote: Hi, Mostly for the yellow+black haters. :) http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2.5/ Lovely :) Can you just make the Quick links, News and help boxes the same width? I think that would look great :) -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:09:45 +0100 Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Mostly for the yellow+black haters. :) http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2.5/ cute =), I just think that quicklinks, news and help debian should fill all the page's width, just like what is debian thanks for the good work =) []s! -- Gustavo Noronha Silva - kov http://www.metainfo.org/kov *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+ | .''`. | Debian GNU/Linux: http://www.debian.org | | : :' : + Debian BR...: http://debian-br.cipsga.org.br+ | `. `'` + Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? + | `-| A: Upstream's decision. -- hmh | *-* -+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+--+-+-+
Re: new front page, take 2.5
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:09:45PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2.5/ Still too wide for links (80 char/line) and other conditions as previously reported. May not be critical but -- +++ + Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] @ Cupertino, CA USA +
Re: new front page, take 2.5
Josip Rodin wrote: Mostly for the yellow+black haters. :) Much much better. I actually like this one. Have you thought about dropping the cyan backgrond box with the round corners? As it is it's boxes inside the cyan box all inside my mozilla window, which is really a bit complicated when you think about it. That thing also eats vertical and horizontal space. And IMHO the color clashes with the rest of the colors on the page (I think the same thing about the existing cyan box on the current debian web page.) Hmm, here's a layout idea. What if you took the quick links, news, and help debian, and arranged them like this: Quick Links News -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- -- Help Debian -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- I notice that the News and Quick links boxes are already not as wide as the rest of the page, so this layout shouldn't affect them much, I hope. And the links is dying to become a vertical bar, and at the same time this doesn't cut down on the page width for the larger boxes at the top of the page. I think you should make the layout and format of the dates in the news and upgrade sections more homogenoius. Any reason to have [] around the dates in one and not the other? Any reason not to use the same font for both sets of dates? -- see shy jo
