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

Thu Mar 8 02:00:09 CET 2012

Hi Marco,

- i love the dotted background
- the bottom icon bar (iem-powered etc) is oldschool and shall go
- we may not need the accessibility link but some people do
- a bit afraid that fixed width may be a problem on some mobiles. btw: are
there some web stats for puredata.info that have screen size statistics?

2 cents,
András

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 14:39, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 07/03/12 14:27, Marco Donnarumma wrote:
>
>> agree!!
>>
>> should we stick to margin: 0 auto, so to center it, or people is more
>> left/ish?
>>
>
> I think if you keep the menu on the left, left is better.
>
>  on my website the width is 720px and centered, which I find a good
>> compromise for both laptop and mobile browsers.
>>
>> thoughts?
>>
>> M
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:45 PM, m.e.grimm <megrimm at gmail.com <mailto:
>> megrimm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    hello
>>
>>    can i put a suggestion in for "fixed width" rather than "stretched"?
>>    "fixed" will retain all the design elements and text nicely....
>>    stretched just looks sloppy to me.
>>
>>    thanks!
>>    m
>>
>>
>>    On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Marco Donnarumma
>>    <devel at thesaddj.com <mailto:devel at thesaddj.com>> 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/
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>
>>    >>
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