Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-10-01 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 22:22]: Cameron Moore writes: - Makes maintaining documentation a pain. For example, the FAQ page is no longer a self-contained doc. Possible solutions: o Use frames (never!) o Use SSI (in faq.html put

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-10-01 Thread James A. Treacy
At the risk of offending the author of the text, I have modified the last three paragraphs of overview.html to be a bit less personal. Reading 'we' too many times gets distracting. Also, the reader has no idea who wrote the page so I attributed the last paragraph as a quote from Curt (assuming

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-10-01 Thread Curtis L. Olson
All sounds good, I appreciate the feed back. Curt. James A. Treacy writes: At the risk of offending the author of the text, I have modified the last three paragraphs of overview.html to be a bit less personal. Reading 'we' too many times gets distracting. Also, the reader has no idea who

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-10-01 Thread Martin Spott
David Luff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/03 at 10:58 AM James A. Treacy wrote: At the risk of offending the author of the text, I have modified the last three paragraphs of overview.html to be a bit less personal. Hmm, I always thought that was Michael Basler speaking. No doubt one of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-10-01 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: All sounds good, I appreciate the feed back. Curt. James A. Treacy writes: At the risk of offending the author of the text, I have modified the last three paragraphs of overview.html to be a bit less personal. Reading 'we' too many times gets

[Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Hi, Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they should have been tweaked in the original site long

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:55:05 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Outstanding. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread David Luff
On 9/30/03 at 1:55 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they should

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Erik Hofman
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they should have been tweaked in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Matevz Jekovec writes: It looks fantastic! I think we should publish some more screenshots of FGFS though. Should I make a pack of screenshots of my J-22? I am also searching for some places filled with eye candies (you know, show the game as attractive to the newbies), that is filled with

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they should have been tweaked in the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Jim Wilson writes: It's beautiful! Maybe add a target=_blank or a named window on the six photo links on the home page. Otherwise looks great. Yes, towards the end of February we are expecting a little bundle of joy. :-) I'm not sure if I'm more nervous the second time around or the first

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Jim Wilson writes: It's beautiful! Maybe add a target=_blank or a named window on the six photo links on the home page. Otherwise looks great. Yes, towards the end of February we are expecting a little bundle of joy. :-) I'm not sure if I'm more nervous the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Curtis L. Olson wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Jim Wilson writes: It's beautiful! Maybe add a target=_blank or a named window on the six photo links on the home page. Otherwise looks great. Yes, towards the end of February we are expecting a little bundle of joy. :-) I'm not sure

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I get from the above link are 404s Both IExplorer and Mozilla ?? Norman

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I get from the above link are 404s Both

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I get from the above link are

Re: [flightgear] RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Frederic Bouvier
Norman Vine wrote: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I get from the above link are 404s Both

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Vine) [2003.09.30 16:12]: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I get from the

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Norman Vine
Curtis L. Olson writes: Norman Vine writes: Cool but all I get from the above link are 404s Both IExplorer and Mozilla You are too slow .. :-) Now you have to go to http://www.flightgear.org/ to see the changes. :-) Very Nice One minor nit though, There is nothing on the home

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread David Luff
Getstart guide and aircraft model HOWTO as well - this probably affects most of the stuff with internal links. Cheers - Dave ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread David Luff
On 9/30/03 at 4:11 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 13:57]: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. snip/ There are a few things I'd like to tweak (mostly because they should have been tweaked in the original site long ago) but if people generally

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Julian Foad
David Luff wrote: On 9/30/03 at 4:11 PM Curtis L. Olson wrote: Norman Vine writes: Curtis L. Olson writes: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. I have placed the proposed changes here: http://www.flightgear.org/www.andrei/ Cool but all

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Julian Foad writes: Or preferably they don't mention the file name: just a href=#4.1. The name of it (linked from the main page) should be FAQ not Faq. The logo at the top of the FAQ is not found (wrong relative directory path). Also on the screen shots page. temporary glitch ... I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: First of all, thanks, Andrei. The new design looks awesome. I've wanted to take a stab at redesigning the site for a long time, but haven't had time, which turned out to be a good thing since you appear to be better at it than me. :-) Here's MHO: Pros IMHO: -

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Julian Foad
Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 13:57]: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. - No DOCTYPE specification[1] ... [1] http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html Yes - please check that the pages are valid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jon Stockill
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Curtis L. Olson wrote: What can I say, I learned html in the 20th century back when there were more gopher servers than http servers. :-) Probably most of you are saying gopher what? ... gopher was kind of like a text only web Ah, good old port 70 *sigh* :-) The new site

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I also found an error. When i click first on screenshots and then after that on the other links like Source, Binary etc. i get an 404 error. That's because it tries after clicking on screenshots to find the html page of Source, Binary etc. in www.flightgear.org/Gallery/source.html instead

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Am Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2003 00:46 schrieb Julian Foad: Cameron Moore wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 13:57]: Andrei Barbu has revamped the flightgear web site layout and made quite a few improvements. - No DOCTYPE specification[1] ... [1]

[Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread T'Eval
Hey, Sorry about the DOCTYPE spec, I did include one originally but it messed up how the pages look on Mozilla, so I just removed it entirely. If you could leave my email somewhere on the first page, or in the credits page I'd be very thankful, either way is fine. Any chages people have in mind,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: Hmmm, something tells I replied to the wrong message, oops, too many things going on here at one time ... but yeah if any one cares, kid #2 is on his or her way. Congrats! All the best, David ___ Flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Jim Wilson
Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Curtis L. Olson writes: Jim Wilson writes: It's beautiful! Maybe add a target=_blank or a named window on the six photo links on the home page. Otherwise looks great. Yes, towards the end of February we are expecting a little bundle of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread T'Eval
Oh, About the doctypes, to see what they do to the page. Compare index.html to docs.html You'll see the difference. That's the best doctype I could find, but there probably are better ones that would work with the page. docs.html has a doctype, index doesn't. Note the menu, and the top image, the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
T'Eval writes: Yup In the tar.bz2 I sent you, the files should have ../ in the menus. That fixes it, if it doesn't.. I might have uploaded the wrong version. Do tell, I can give you the one that works. Can you give me a specific url that is still broke? I'm not seeing the problem I guess.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also found an error. When i click first on screenshots and then after that on the other links like Source, Binary etc. i get an 404 error. That's because it tries after clicking on screenshots to find the html page of Source, Binary etc. in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread T'Eval
Yup In the tar.bz2 I sent you, the files should have ../ in the menus. That fixes it, if it doesn't.. I might have uploaded the wrong version. Do tell, I can give you the one that works. Andrei On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 02:07, Curtis L. Olson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also found an

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I also found an error. When i click first on screenshots and then after that on the other links like Source, Binary etc. i get an 404 error. That's because it tries after clicking on screenshots to find the html page of Source, Binary etc. in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Cameron Moore
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curt Olson) [2003.09.30 17:37]: Cameron Moore writes: First of all, thanks, Andrei. The new design looks awesome. I've wanted to take a stab at redesigning the site for a long time, but haven't had time, which turned out to be a good thing since you appear to be

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates - found an error

2003-09-30 Thread T'Eval
Works now. Didn't before. Guess it took a little, or my mozilla was using the cached pages. Though.. I did refresh. Andrei On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 02:18, Curtis L. Olson wrote: T'Eval writes: Yup In the tar.bz2 I sent you, the files should have ../ in the menus. That fixes it, if it

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: [ Caution: Pet peeve ] I noticed that you are using complete URLs in the links now (such as a href=http://www.flightgear.org/Docs/;/a). You can accomplish the same effect by using an absolute link like so: a href=/Docs//a. Notice it starts with a slash. Doing this

Re: [Flightgear-devel] web site updates

2003-09-30 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Cameron Moore writes: - Makes maintaining documentation a pain. For example, the FAQ page is no longer a self-contained doc. Possible solutions: o Use frames (never!) o Use SSI (in faq.html put !--#include=FlightGear-FAQ.html--) o Update FAQ output procedure to include new