Today's Work

[Devon H. O'Dell]

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 19:58 +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote:
> On Mar 4, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> 
> >  o	Removed the left navigation column and put
> > 	contents in a `dropdown' menu up top. This
> > 	menu could be fixed up to look a bit nicer...
> > 	Ideas?
> 
> The dropdown box with the black border could extend
> upwards to include the menu title as the first list item.
> For consistency, the menu titles anyway have to be either
> all linked or all not linked - and all linked is probably the
> better direction to go.
> 
> The dropdown menu lists should probably be left-aligned
> and positioned so that the text of the menu title doesn't
> move when it is hovered over.
> 
> Dropdown menus have the drawback that you do no
> longer get an overview of the site structure at a glance.
> You have to browse through the menus to see what's
> there.

This is true. Again, this is a WIP, there's still a lot to be done here.

> >  o	Moved news and press to the bottom of the
> > 	main content. The main content could use a
> > 	change.
> 
> Someone might argue that news and press are the reason
> why they access the first page and that they do not want
> to have to scroll down. Currently, they get "lost down there".
> Not sure what the best solution would be. In order for the
> site to scale well with different window width, we really
> could keep three columns. Otherwise the readability of the
> advocacy text suffers because it runs to wide.

My idea was that a lot of the main content text will be removed /
replaced / reworded (or a combination of all three). My idea is that the
PR and News will come further to the top after doing this. Perhaps I
should have left this for later; it seems a lot of people have gotten
the wrong idea with this.

I also want to give ``news shorts.'' That is, provide a short (first 30
word) summary of the news. My XSL foo isn't great, is this possible with
XSL macros?

> >  o	Made two separate color themes for the site.
> > 	More themes can be made styling the site in
> > 	pretty much any way imaginable.
> 
> Now that I see it, I realize that a blue tone will not work
> for the headlines if we also use blue for the links. If we keep
> the links blue then nothing else should be blue.
> 
> /czv

Is your Perforce account set up? Feel free to commit extra stylesheets
with different color combinations (or do whatever else work you feel is
necessary!)

--Devon