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

[Chris McCormick]

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
>     New Media + Sonic Arts Practitioner, Performer, Teacher, Director.
>     ACE, Sound Design MSc by Research (ongoing)
>     The University of Edinburgh, UK
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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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> Research: http://res.marcodonnarumma.com
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