[PD] Editing CSS style, make pd.info better? [WAS: puredata.info site design provocation]

[Nicolas Montgermont]

Hello,

This layout is much better than the exisiting one. It should be applied 
to the complete website and not only to the exhibition section (but I 
think that's what you implied).

these comments are for the whole website:
* I think we don't need the "site map / accessibility / contact" div as 
well.
* Maybe a prettiest title bar should be nice ( with a patch screenshot 
or something)
* One problem I think, is also the width of the left column, when we 
click on a section, there is often two lines fr a folder, maybe it 
should be increase.
* Maybe we may simplify the footer as well?

If you want to test your css on other computer before to apply, don't 
hesitate to send (maybe on the pdweb list)

Good job, cool!
n

Le 07/03/12 07:55, Chris McCormick a écrit :
> Hi Marco,
>
> Love it!
>
> A couple of ideas (bike shed opinions only of course):
>
>  * Larger fonts look friendlier.
>  * How many people have ever clicked the print/email icons? My guess 
> is somewhere close to zero.
>  * RSS icon should look like one, and maybe bigger.
>  * Like the idea of a big fat download button (example attached but 
> don't use it as it's not mine).
>
> Kind of hilarious to imagine how users will feel after finding Pd 
> through a lovely friendly pure-data.info site and then being 
> confronted with Pd's blank canvas and then lines-and-boxes for the 
> first time. ;)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> On 03/07/2012 07:57 AM, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>> this is what I'm working on, started with the exhibition page, but it
>> could be generalized.
>> I only added now the background pattern of the ubuntu website, following
>> on the ubuntu font by chris.
>>
>> This is only CSS editing, but I had to delete the navigation tab on the
>> top from the html.
>> I say so, because apparently it's "easy" to edit the plone css custom
>> theme, but edit the structure might be more painful.
>>
>> Next I want to display images for each project and a slightly longer
>> description.
>>
>> attached there's a screenshot..
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Marco Donnarumma <devel at thesaddj.com
>> <mailto:devel at thesaddj.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey folks,
>>
>>     I got my head around the CSS editing of PLONE.
>>     I can do the CSS job, the only downside is that it has to be done
>>     with Plone in development mode.
>>     This apparently would slow down the site a bit.
>>
>>     However, fact is, if we modify a css class, this will affect the
>>     whole website.
>>
>>     How should we handle this?
>>     Voting for the best style, collecting ideas, or....
>>
>>     I can join Chris and send over some styles I've been trying.
>>     It would be great to give a better look, at least to the extent that
>>     the css allows.
>>
>>     M
>>
>>
>>
>>     On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Marco Donnarumma
>> <devel at thesaddj.com <mailto:devel at thesaddj.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Hi Chris,
>>
>>         I'm glad you did that.
>>         It is what I'm also doing following the discussion in the past
>>         week about the website.
>>         However, apparently it's a pain to be able to change only the
>>         css in the plone template.
>>         I'm looking into that, if somebody is more experienced than me
>>         in Plone, give me a shout!
>>
>>         But, yes, your is a good example of how the same website could
>>         look much friendlier.
>>
>>         talk soon,
>>         M
>>
>>
>>             On 03/06/2012 10:35 AM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
>> > The one thing I miss is the news section.
>>
>>             Yeah for sure.
>>
>> > It's probably a little too heavy for the frontpage, but
>>             how has webpd progressed?
>> >
>> > Is it possible to link that picture of a patch on the
>>             frontpage to a page with a webpd
>> >
>> > version of that patch?
>>
>>             Yes but it almost certainly won't run and WebPd has no 
>> GUI. :)
>>
>>             Maybe a simpler patch could work.
>>
>>             Cheers,
>>
>>             Chris.
>>
>>             --
>>             http://mccormick.cx/
>>
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Marco Donnarumma
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>>     The University of Edinburgh, UK
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>> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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