Gentoo Archives: www-redesign

From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:10:07
Message-Id: 43A54381.2000702@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org by Curtis Napier
1 Curtis Napier wrote:
2 > >>> Xavier Neys wrote:
3 > >>>
4 > >>>> Links to GWN RSS feeds are not properly displayed:
5 > >>>> http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
6 > >>>> http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml
7 > >>>
8 > >>> I forgot to copy over the image. fixed.
9 > >>
10 > >> The xml image is underlined and it's darn ugly IMHO.
11 > >
12 > > It's even worse on printable pages:
13 > > http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/gwn.xml?style=printable
14 >
15 > Is it OK now?
16
17 The "xml" image is still underlined.
18 The printable page looks much better.
19
20 >> I prefer a list of links to older news just like on the current site,
21 >> but obviously not crammed in the left margin anymore.
22 >> I you choose the "more news" approach, fair enough, but why use an
23 >> extra /main/en/morenews.xml file with an extra ID that has to be
24 >> defined in the DTD even though those IDs are not use anymore and extra
25 >> logic in the xsl?
26 >> All you need is a "?newsitemcount=20" link.
27 >
28 > I went with the newsitemcount solution. Why didn't I think of that? Oh
29 > well, it's fixed now.
30
31 Not sure asking for 1000 news items is reasonable and the same link to
32 ?newsitemcount=1000 appears on that page too.
33
34 >> 2nd & 3rd level title look better.
35 >> I can't say as much of the top titles :(
36 >
37 > How are the titles now?
38
39 Top title is still missing.
40 The big fat "4. Preparing the Disks" has disappeared.
41 It was there: http://dev.gentoo.org/~neysx/wwwredesign/5.png
42
43 It hasn't been fixed on printable pages.
44 Speaking of printable pages, none of them have any title.
45
46 Weird thing: clicking on a screenshot on
47 http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/main/en/shots.xml adds a vertical scroll bar to it.
48
49 > I made a major change to the content area. I did this to address the
50 > problem of "Dead Space" under the ad bar that several people have
51 > complained about and to help make the site degrade properly when fonts
52 > are increased or the window is small.
53
54 Looking at it, I think it would look better if the ad column ran to the end of
55 the page. Sorry for suggesting to either colour it or use it. The former is
56 better IMHO.
57
58
59 Cheers,
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61 / Xavier Neys
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63 / French & Internationalisation Lead
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