Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-11 Thread Zoki
- - - I think I prefer the old mascot of Dr. Tux rather than Beach boy Tux. In - fact one has the impression of having seen it elsewhere. Personally, I am - for re-establishing Dr. Tux. - - As soon as Burns gets some time, that is the plan. the current penguin is - just a stand-in. - -Is it

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-05 Thread Zoran
On Apr 4 burns was heard saying: -On April 2, 2002 06:59 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote: - - - I think I prefer the old mascot of Dr. Tux rather than Beach boy Tux. In - fact one has the impression of having seen it elsewhere. Personally, I am - for re-establishing Dr. Tux. - - As soon as Burns

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-04 Thread burns
On April 2, 2002 06:59 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote: I think I prefer the old mascot of Dr. Tux rather than Beach boy Tux. In fact one has the impression of having seen it elsewhere. Personally, I am for re-establishing Dr. Tux. As soon as Burns gets some time, that is the plan. the

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-02 Thread Zoran
On Apr 1 Net Llama was heard saying: -Fellow Pengiuns, -The SxS editors are in the process of reworking the layout design of -the SxS site to make it more usable for everyone. Here's out latest -proof of concept: -http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/parent.html *** Wow, remembering how it started

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-02 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Zoran spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: It looks sleeker. The little 3D file icons next to each group link are a nice idea. thanks Compared to the old site the new one looks like its corners have been rounded without touching the house style. That is very good. I concur

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-02 Thread Zoran
On Apr 2 Douglas J Hunley was heard saying: snip - Furthermore the icon on the home page is a bit too small for laptop - screens. Even with a 1024 resolution, the icon does not render very well, - misses detail and looks a bit unsharp. - -which? the miniature version of the splash image? ***

Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
Fellow Pengiuns, The SxS editors are in the process of reworking the layout design of the SxS site to make it more usable for everyone. Here's out latest proof of concept: http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/parent.html Please provide feedback, whether negative or positive. If you don't like any of

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Andrew Mathews
Net Llama wrote: Fellow Pengiuns, The SxS editors are in the process of reworking the layout design of the SxS site to make it more usable for everyone. Here's out latest proof of concept: http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/parent.html Please provide feedback, whether negative or positive.

RE: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Condon Thomas A KPWA
I must echo Aaron's comment about resizing. In IE it resizes to taller than my display (and narrower), but thinks it is at full size. So it won't scroll the data up and down. I have to shrink it and then click on full screen in order to get it to behave correctly. Other than that, the look

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Its not you. This is what is causing it to happen: function resize_view() { window.resizeTo(880,980) } I'm not entirely sure why we need this, so we'll look into removing and/or fixing that. I put it there to

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama!
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Douglas J Hunley wrote: Net Llama spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Its not you. This is what is causing it to happen: function resize_view() { window.resizeTo(880,980) } I'm not entirely sure why we need this, so we'll look into

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Net Llama! spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: OK, but why would you want a minimum of 880x980? If our target is someone with 640x480 or 800x600, we're already missing that mark with your settings. I know. :( Because the 880 is the minimum I found to hold the new top

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Condon Thomas A KPWA spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Other than that, the look and feel is good, if it weren't for all the 404's! ;-} obviously, I was gonna copy all the content over until we had a design down. hence the 404s... the main impetus was redesigning the look

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Finally, have you considered using PHP (or any other script language)?? YES. We *cant*. Think of our mirrors. We've been down this road *many* times (on the editors list, so you didn't know). Some of our mirrors are nothing more than their user

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might look better with a white background. But that's minor. The big thing for me is that middle frame. Bill On Monday 01

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 19:19:03 -0300 begin Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: [snip] I know I might be getting a bit off topic with this, but I think it's worth giving it a thought. You can't use scripting because of the mirrors. BUT, you can still use scripting to generate

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
The middle frame is supposed to be for each mirror to include any unique content branding stuff. Just curious, which browser did you use (or do you prefer)? thanks for your feedback! -Net LLama! --- Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for?

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Federico Voges
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Not exactly. With the script approach, you can add common HTML code to the article: header, footer, etc. With CSS you can't. Likewise, you can even create a WAP page, or an HTML page tuned for AvantGo. Again, with CSS you can't. Another

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Rick Sivernell
Mr. David Bandel He he, I have I puffed you up some? David I like your css idea, but some of us just do not know how. I for one would like a little instruction here. Currently I am doing some html javascript for a college class, and learning something new at the same time would be great.

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
I use galeon. Not the latest. I should upgrade galeon and mozilla. Although I've been told that if I try the latest mozilla milestone, I wouldn't use galeon. I mainly prefer galeon because of it's ability to disable pop-ups. Bill On Monday 01 April 2002 05:56 pm, Net Llama wrote: The middle

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Bill Davidson
On Monday 01 April 2002 06:57 pm, Net Llama wrote: --- Bill Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use galeon. Not the latest. I should upgrade galeon and mozilla. Although I've been told that if I try the latest mozilla milestone, I wouldn't use galeon. I mainly prefer galeon because of it's

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David Aikema
On April 1, 2002 01:53 pm, David A. Bandel wrote: Do you know of a good site that does a CSS for dummies type tutorial. Actually it doesn't even have to be watered down, just something for people who know HTML, but know nothing about CSS, and want to learn the basics quickly.

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Wrong answer. The beauty of CSS is that CSS is all about markup/content separation. In Lynx all you see is the content, not any markup. And for whatever reason, content displays _much_ better under Lynx with CSS. it does?

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Douglas J Hunley
Bill Davidson spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might look better with a white background. But that's

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread David A. Bandel
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 20:30:24 -0500 begin Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed forth: David A. Bandel spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: Wrong answer. The beauty of CSS is that CSS is all about markup/content separation. In Lynx all you see is the content, not any

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Net Llama
--- Douglas J Hunley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Davidson spewed electrons into the ether that assembled into: I don't care for that middle frame. What's it for? And it's resizable in case it's not supposed to be. You can shrink it upward. I think the mirror and the editor tables might

Re: Redesign of SxS site in the works

2002-04-01 Thread Marvin Dickens
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 17:31:44 -0300 Federico Voges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BIG SNIP I second Frederico's post... Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and