[Mulgara-dev] Re: [Mulgara-general] website

[thomas]

hi,

--On 22. April 2007 19:30:00 -0700 "Life is hard, and then you die" 
<ronald at innovation.ch> wrote:

>
> Sorry for the slow response - a million things...

well, i can be even slower... thanks for your response anyway!


> A couple comments. First, I like the navIn/navOut styles, and the
> toc on the left is good. Scrolling speed is better than before, IIRC,
> but firefox still seems to be doing a lot work so it's still a bit
> slow (this is probably related to the next iss
> My main issue, and this may be very personal, is the use of
> transparencies. While tranparencies are great and fun when moving
> windows, switching desktops, etc, I find them quite annoying on text
> I'm reading. Specifically I'm referring to the banner at the top and
> the copyright block at the bottom.

i know, and i understand your problem. it's just that i love those 
transparencies ... (which is of course my personal issue). the copyright 
block has now been moved to a seperate page, leaving only a small notice at 
the bottom of the page which i guess is much less annoying. regarding the 
top banner i suggest that you think of it as an area which is just the top 
banner, like a frame in frame-based layout, which doesn't actually contain 
content. if you nevertheless can read some text there - all the better ;-) 
i hope that's good enough as a "solution".


> On a purely technical note, the icons at the bottom claim the pages
> are xhtml 1.0, but they don't validate because of nested 'ul'
> elements

how embarrassing! that's fixed now.

> (things are nice and clean otherwise!).

thanks!


one final annoyance: the left hand side navigtion can get quite long, 
especially in the "integration tutorial" section. on small displays you 
might not be able to see the bottom of the list of links. normally that 
wouldn't be a big problem but since i made the arbitrary design decision 
(form follows fancyness) to fix the navigation layer in place instead of 
allowing it to scroll with the page it is a problem. during the last days i 
tried to shorten the left hand side navigation by introducing a second 
level of folding but couldn't get it working (ant replace doesn't do what i 
want it to do). sorry for the noise on the svn-list that these futile 
attempts caused. so i decided to leave it as it is for now but make it a 
little more bearable by shortening some titles, reducing font sizes and 
increasing the line width. imo it's not a critical bug anymore.


i still want to change the background picture against something more like 
this - 
<http://www.sydneymate.com/store/picture-print-poster/aboriginal_art/free-picture/aboriginal_art_goan6.jpg> 
(just the background, without the lizard) - but still have to find a 
picture that "works" within the constraints of the layout.


ciao
thomas



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