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From: Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Not so Random Idea: Website redesign
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:27:44
Message-Id: 479E027E.6060905@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Not so Random Idea: Website redesign by Alistair Bush
1 Alistair Bush wrote:
2 > Therefore and entry would consist of x css (however many we currently
3 > have) files.
4 > Our html would be fixed, tho I do admit that we may have to make some
5 > changes to enable contributors to customise images, etc (Hopefully
6 > they would be minor). Any changes we make would be to generalise our
7 > html to enable contributor contributions. contributors could not ask
8 > for "special features" specific to their theme.
9 >
10 <snip>
11 > ps. I have not sized this. therefore it might be easy, or it might
12 > be impossible. Also there are lots of other ideas that we could throw
13 > around.
14 First of, I do think it's a good idea overall. That being said, I don't
15 think I'd quite classify this as 'easy'.
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17 The tricky part is figuring out how we want to layout the markup, in
18 such a way that it would facilitate people being able to easily stylize
19 it. This can be more difficult if one doesn't have a lot of
20 experience/familiarity with CSS and making things pretty with CSS.
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22 Checkout "css Zen Garden" (http://www.csszengarden.com/) to see a good
23 example of your proposal in action.
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26 Josh Nichols
27 Gentoo/Ruby Developer
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