Re: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-24 Thread Mark R. Diggory
Jason van Zyl wrote: Dealing with umbrella sites is definitely something that people want some advice on how to do best. An umbrella page is really an aggregation of all information contained within all the subprojects. So in this case maybe we need a different kind of page. Possibly having a

Re: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-24 Thread Mark R. Diggory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea of the blue bgcolor for non-focused tabs, but I'd also say to use a lighter gray for the fg of those tabs (increases contrast and readability). As for the pipes, it's a simple solution and seems very effective on other sites. yep One thing, though: I

RE: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-23 Thread CaseyJD
I like the idea of the blue bgcolor for non-focused tabs, but I'd also say to use a lighter gray for the fg of those tabs (increases contrast and readability). As for the pipes, it's a simple solution and seems very effective on other sites. One thing, though: I think the part that needs the most

RE: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-23 Thread CaseyJD
My only beef with the current style is what happens when you have tons of sub-projects, as in the case of Jakarta Commons. When you start stacking many different scopes of detail on top of one another down the left sidebar, it becomes hard to differentiate between scope divisions. I know, the

RE: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-23 Thread Jason van Zyl
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My only beef with the current style is what happens when you have tons of sub-projects, as in the case of Jakarta Commons. When you start stacking many different scopes of detail on top of one another down the left sidebar, it becomes hard

RE: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-23 Thread Chad McHenry
My only beef with the current style is what happens when you have tons of sub-projects, as in the case of Jakarta Commons. When you start stacking many different scopes of detail on top of one another down the left sidebar, it becomes hard to differentiate between scope divisions. I know, the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [commons-site] Alternate Horizontal Project Navigat ion]

2004-02-23 Thread Mark R. Diggory
I'd like to chat more on this, but I'm totally swamped today. Maybe I can respond later tonite. I agree with alot of the discussion, what I built is primarily a prototype with tons of room for input. Anyone who wants to step up to bat and play around with it, I will provide the alternate