On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 15:07, Marco Donnarumma <devel@thesaddj.com> wrote:

Hello folks,

I've been playing around with the CSS styles again.
This time I implemented a similar style of the exhibition page to the homepage at puredata.info.

I also decreased the global page width, and set it and its position in percentage, which makes it fluid across different browsers and platforms.
Increased the font-size too.

I don't really like how Plone displays News and Recent Changes (table, odd and even).

But this is something we could take care later on (if other ppl is bothered as me).

NOTE: I think better and bigger images would greatly enhance the look of the page.

See the attached screenshot.
First is the style of the other time, the second is a similar style but without dotted background.
I rather the dotted one.

This time I copied all the modification in css sheet,

__which means that if ppl likes this stuff, I can change the real CSS and put it on-line__
I could do that between today and tomorrow.

let me know your thoughts,
and if you have suggestion for the style.

Didn't add the much requested Download button because it has to be done outside of the CSS.

cheers,
Marco

Bravo Marco, a great improvement over the current state! Great dots :)
Some minor comments/ideas:
- could you post a screenshot of the footer?
- what do you think about making News and Recent Changes more similar to the menu by adding an internal padding to the whole containing element, and at the same time, decreasing the padding/margin of the individual items?
A few humble ideas about the main page:
- the link to the Belorussian translation looks a bit orphaned, but I don't know where else it could go
- seeing the same "old" screenshots on the opening page is a waste of prime time space IMHO, because once you took a look at them you won't use that part of the website anymore
- what do you people think about moving the current content of the main page to a menu item like "What is Pd?" and filling the page with more dynamic content? eventually, to fill with leads of News and Recent Changes items, which could even eliminate the need of those blocks (News is already on main page only, Recent Changes appear on some sub pages but not on each).
- if the main page ever gets populated with News et al, it would be nice to have a cover picture however. Eventually rotating cover pictures, possibly linked. Maybe a crazy idea, but wouldn't it make sense to have a carousel-like thing showing up items from the Exhibition on the main page?

- all i currently see when clicking Community is "check out DevelopmentWiki". Is this a temporary or very necessary state here?

András