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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Also looks like a big improvement.  I think whoever is actually going to do the work should make the final call on how it will look, but with community input, of course :-).  Posting screenshots sounds like a nice way to review the possibilities, if people are up for generating them.

.hc

On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:57 PM, 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
> 
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> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Marco Donnarumma <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
> 
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> 
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Marco Donnarumma <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.
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Marco Donnarumma
> New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
> ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
> The University of Edinburgh, UK
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