From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Wed Dec 05 18:09:59 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_2); 6 Dec 2001 02:09:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 2160 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 02:09:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m9.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 6 Dec 2001 02:09:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 02:09:58 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16BnzA-0002FO-00 for ; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 18:10:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:10:04 -0800 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] [WWWW] Goals for http://www.lojban.org/ (fwd) Message-ID: <20011206021004.GD6855@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i From: Robin Lee Powell X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=66827819 X-Yahoo-Profile: robinleepowell On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 02:24:17PM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:38:23PM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > > The new page is much more pleasent to look at. :) > > I agree. And it does better on the content side than the page Xod and > I had. Why thank you. > I'm rather impressed by the use of float sections instead of tables - > something I never learned. I read most of the CSS spec, cuz I'm a masochist. 8) > However, a couple things about the page are kinda ugly. First, of > course, there's the blue borders around the images - get rid of those > with border=0 in the tag. Fixed. > And the text runs right up to the edge of each float section, making > it hard to read. I see that this can be set in "padding" properties, > so those percentages just need to be higher. Nope, doesn't do it. In every browser where those settings are not ignored, it looks fine. Seriously. What browser? > It rather looks like the right sidebar begins higher than the left > one, giving a rather lopsided appearance. Again, that would be Netscape's fault. If I put a margin setting on the right one, it folds over to the left. BTW, netscape ignores my requests to remove the picture borders, sorry. > "You email" should of course be "Your email", if not "Your email > address". Done. > I think the text in the margins could afford to be smaller. Right now > the left column is about twice as long as everything else. The purpose > of using a sans-serif font in our version was that sans-serif is easy > to read at small sizes. I don't even think it would be too much of a > problem to use sans-serif in the sidebars and serif in the main > column, if you so prefer. The style sheet you have should make that > change very easy to make. Heh heh. You should probably bear in mind that I'm reading this on 1600x1200, but I'll cut it down a bit. Another problem is that Netscape uses these incredibly eye-bleeding microscopic fonts. And see my next post. > Next to the heading, the dates are the most prominent thing on the > page. That's just a bit weird now, but it could become quite a problem > if activity slows down on the site and the second thing a visitor sees > is a really old date. These could afford to be a couple of header > sizes smaller. On my screen, for example, "26 November 2001" appears > on 3 lines. Fixed, I hope. > The bullets are all on the outside of the text. That's a neat trick, > and I wish I had known how to do that on my version. But since your > version has extra space between bullet points anyway, it is not > necessary for the bullets to stick out to the side, and you could > reclaim some space in the sidebar by having the text wrap below the > bullets. Again, that effect is due to your browser. None of mine do that. -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/