Thanks guys,
glad you like it.

I'm taking note of all your considerations.
I'll make a css style for you to try out.

Is there a straight forward way to save the css I'm creating with firebug?
I mean, something other than copy pasting each class I edit.

Most importantly, I can do the job during this week, but since next week will be travelling again.
So, I don't want to rush people, but...

I can do it now, surfing the growing interest, or let it die for a while again..
I'd rather the first option.

what ppl think?

@chris: I also thought the same, but Pd is getting "smoother" too :)
maybe it's a good timing.

M





On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Nicolas Montgermont <nicolas_montgermont@yahoo.fr> wrote:
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@thesaddj.com
<mailto:devel@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@thesaddj.com <mailto:devel@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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The University of Edinburgh, UK
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