Re: web site design thread

2003-03-25 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Uwe Pross wrote: There are several things I don't like on the current design e.g. the background pixmap and the navigation style. In my opinion the page should be look more like fvwm. I am going the fix that step by step. Next step will be switch the current

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-25 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Bob Woodside wrote: I'll take a look at your php files later today or this evening. I found a bug last night in the php files I have packed in the last tar archive. There was a problem with the variable $rel_path and its usage. It happend that the file

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-25 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
MG == Mikhael Goikhman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MG Jason, can you please enable php stuff in apache running on MG fvwm.org? If you don't know what to do for this, you may ask here. I'm stuck in version hell at the moment (PHP requires some version of OpenSSL while other packages require

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-24 Thread Dominik Vogt
At the moment, I am a bit unhappy with the window like layout. Take a look at http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php Is it just me, or does anybody else find the text arranged in windows confusing? I tend to favour the idea to make one big window and arrange the text

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-24 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php Is it just me, or does anybody else find the text arranged in windows confusing? I tend to favour the idea to make one big window and arrange the text blocks inside as it

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:31:11 +0100 Dominik Vogt fvwm-workers@fvwm.org wrote: At the moment, I am a bit unhappy with the window like layout. Take a look at http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php Is it just me, or does anybody else find the text arranged in

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-24 Thread Bob Woodside
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:49:10 +0100 Uwe Pross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changed. At the moment I am playing around with the web sites. There are several things I don't like on the current design Hooray! I'm glad to see they finally got your directory back online. I'll

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-24 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
Jason, can you please enable php stuff in apache running on fvwm.org? If you don't know what to do for this, you may ask here. I think there is a consensus that the web design of Uwe is good and we may try to go with it (the exact look is configurable by a visitor). Since it uses php files not

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-23 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi Bob! On Sat, 22 Mar 2003, Bob Woodside wrote: If you'd like, I'd be happy to try to help out with this project. I've got a fair amount of experience with HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript. The way business has been lately, I've been doing more small Web site development than serious

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-21 Thread Bob Woodside
Uwe Pross [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Two new versions: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php?decoration_path=decorations/window_deco_icehilight_color_back=slategray and http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site This morning I tried to

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-21 Thread Dan Espen
Bob Woodside [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Uwe Pross [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Two new versions: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php?decoration_ path=decorations/window_deco_icehilight_color_back=slategray and

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-21 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi Bob! On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Bob Woodside wrote: This morning I tried to look at your designs for the new FVWM Web site, but I just get 404 Dokument nicht gefunden. I tried backing up to the University's personal home pages directory, and successfully followed the links to a couple of

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-20 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, Two new versions: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/features.php?decoration_path=decorations/window_deco_icehilight_color_back=slategray and http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site Any suggestions are welcome. A shell script to build a set of window

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-19 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Hansen wrote: This makes it nearly impossible to describe the page as I did it and have them displayed properly in those browsers. Why not just a link to a light version at the top of the page? I made a new version which uses background pictures

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-19 Thread Mikhael Goikhman
On 19 Mar 2003 07:49:26 +0100, Uwe Pross wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, David Hansen wrote: This makes it nearly impossible to describe the page as I did it and have them displayed properly in those browsers. Why not just a link to a light version at the top of the page? I

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-19 Thread Uwe Pross
On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Mikhael Goikhman wrote: I like how it looks in Netscape 3 (without image decorations, but I think it could be nicer than just gray). I am quite suprised that is still looks good in netscape3 even if I had some difficulties to get it diplayed properly by the first time I

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-17 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, I have put a first version under development of the fvwm homepage on my webspace: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/ This version is uncompleted. Currently there is only one page available. I put it online to show what I am going to do. I plan to add a pager in the top

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-17 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:59:03AM +0100, Uwe Pross wrote: Hi there, I have put a first version under development of the fvwm homepage on my webspace: http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/ Nice. It gives a good idea of how it could look like. Just to have something to

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-17 Thread Uwe Pross
Hi there, On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: Nice. It gives a good idea of how it could look like. Just to have something to compare it to: could you make another version that draw the window title and the left border around the whole page? (I.e. page looks like a desktop vs. page

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-17 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:34:27PM +0100, Uwe Pross wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: Nice. It gives a good idea of how it could look like. Just to have something to compare it to: could you make another version that draw the window title and the left border

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-17 Thread Uwe Pross
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: Like http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp/fvwm_web_site/index.php?layout=window ? Almost. Can you remove the bottom and right border of the outer frame too? With difficulties. I use a simple shell script to generate the decoration pictures from

web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
Let us discuss further web design discussions here. Below is a summary on what was said up to now. When you reply, please do not quote the whole email but only the parts you are referring to. Please keep topics not related to the web site design out of this thread and post design related emails

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Andre Bonhote
Hi Dominik! On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: Goal: Make a shiny new site for the celebration and keep the news up to date. Ahm, what is shiny in your eyes? Do you have examples on how it could look like? IMHO all a good site needs is an easy navigation.

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Andre Bonhote wrote: Hi Dominik! On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: Goal: Make a shiny new site for the celebration and keep the news up to date. Ahm, what is shiny in your eyes? Do you have examples on how

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Andre Bonhote
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:19:35AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:07:26AM +0100, Andre Bonhote wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: Goal: Make a shiny new site for the celebration and keep the news up to date. Ahm, what

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:21:26AM +0100, Andre Bonhote wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:19:35AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: Dominik, be honest: Does the default configuration fvwm2 comes with look beautiful in your opinion? I mean, if you have a nice and shiny website, you should maybe think

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Uwe Pross
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Andre Bonhote wrote: I know, this is OT, but it just came to my mind. Would it be possible to have the website look like fvwm2? Actually I have thought of this already. Making a web design which uses parts of fvwm screenshots should not been that difficult ;-) Or/and

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:57:48AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Dominik Vogt fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes: I don't think the current site is too bad. But it has some *very* ugly colour combinations like the pink titles on gray background. The background should appear more black than gray.

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Uwe Pross
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: Wouldn't this make a great interactive show-off of some fvwm features? There would be a button to cycle through the available themes with a link to download the theme config to put in your .fvwm2rc :-) This is great idea. To get an idea I replaced

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:18:16PM +0100, Uwe Pross wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Dominik Vogt wrote: Wouldn't this make a great interactive show-off of some fvwm features? There would be a button to cycle through the available themes with a link to download the theme config to put in

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dan Espen
Dominik Vogt fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes: Since I play some computer games that are very dark, I have set contrast and brightness to the maximum. Try Kobo Deluxe. Its not dark, and its the only game you'll ever play. (Well maybe not.) I'm not against a slightly grained background, but as

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread dominik . vogt
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:46:22AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Dominik Vogt fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes: Since I play some computer games that are very dark, I have set contrast and brightness to the maximum. Try Kobo Deluxe. Its not dark, and its the only game you'll ever play. (Well

Re: web site design thread

2003-03-13 Thread Dan Espen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:46:22AM -0500, Dan Espen wrote: Dominik Vogt fvwm-workers@fvwm.org writes: The fonts are your default fonts. We don't set any fonts. Mozilla default fonts, then. THe Serifs are too pronounced for my liking. But setting our own fonts