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Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 3
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:02:04 GMT
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Hi Brendan,
thank you very much for taking the time to make this image. It’s really a lot of
fun creating the new frontpage with all the help from various people.
In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Brendan Powell Smith wrote:
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I prefer the colors and look of the columns in
index-test-2.)
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The borders are made out of 4 different pictures, each is a background picture
in a seperate DIV-element and therefore there are 4 DIVs only for the background
+ 1 outer DIV for the piece of content itself (including background) + 1 DIV
within the background DIVs for the actual content. I guess that’s too much; but
would have been needed for floating boxes. The current draft uses one DIV
element per box only, but the HTML file includes 3 extra DIVs for each box which
can be used for design elements in future alternative style sheets.
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I tried moving the Welcome message to the very top of the middle of the page.
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I guess we should be consistent with the use of the header, in all sub pages,
the menu icons are in the dark blue band, so I would like to have them there on
the front page too.
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I also tried putting the large icon links directly below that,
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I really like them being centered, but based on my current CSS- and HTML file, I
haven’t found a solution to center them without adding container elements just
to achieve exactly that :-(
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In the top right corner, I’ve managed to squeeze in a search field with the
icon. I could see perhaps sacrificing the icon for space reasons. And I
wasn’t able to fit in an “Advance search” link (though I suppose the icon
could function as that very link with a tooltip explaining it).
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Finally, I moved the search in the upper right corner in draft #6, but also
wasn’t able to place the “Advanced Options” link in a way it looks good in every
browser and also by scaling the font size.
Also I have to play around with the other elements up there, in some browsers
the background of the dark blue band isn’t correct.
BTW: Never use the “alt”-attribute as a tooltip. It is the alternative text in
case the picture isn’t displayed. The fact, that various browsers, including IE
and Firefox, are using the content of the “alt” attribute as a “Tooltip”, is
just misbehaviour of the browsers. E.g. Opera 9 doesn’t show the “alt” text as a
Tooltip, which is correct behaviour.
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In the middle column I’ve tried adding a small headline letting the visitor
know what sort of content follows by putting “We bring to your attention...”
That sounds a little corny, so I would certainly like to hear other people’s
suggestions.
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ME TOO!!!
Thanks again,
René
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Message is in Reply To:
 | | Re: New homepage for LUGNET part 3
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| Hi, Rene. I put together a mock-up image of my suggestions for tweaks to the new LUGNET front page. I am using (URL) index-test-2> as a basis since I prefer the overall look of that draft to any of the ones since then. (Not that the (URL) latest (...) (17 years ago, 17-Dec-06, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, FTX)
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