Re: GNU Herds' HTML 4.01 Strict + CSS. -- current state

[Sameer Naik]

thats good...

but before you could create new themes we need to finalize on the div 
structures and the layout CSS, check for browser compatibility and stuff and 
make sure most browsers render the layout as it is supposed to be.

if you encounter any inconsistencies in the templates rendering please report 
it and better yet help fix it.

you may very well start your styling to get a new look, but you may have to 
incorporate the changes that occur in the main layout.

~sameer

On Friday 07 Dec 2007 2:28:22 pm Andrew Farnen wrote:
> looks good, sameer. i'm just going to experiment around with you
> deault.css, and see if i find a cool theme. no point in working from
> scratch now.
>
> On Dec 2, 2007 12:19 PM, Sameer Naik <address@hidden> wrote:
> > hi, sameer here,
> > its been a while since i've made any updates on the design front. though
> > i thought i would make at least weekly progress, i haven't been able to
> > stick
> > with the plan. finally i managed to get some work done and its up at
> > www.damagehead.com/gnuherds.org
> >
> > changelog:
> > [1] completed content view styling
> > [2] completed account management menu
> > [3] document type is now HTML 1.0 STRICT
> > [4] updated both default and blue themes
> >
> > pending tasks:
> > [1] CSS definition for the login area. forms in general
> > [2] add logo (still haven't done that, sorry david)
> >
> > For fellow developers who would like to contribute to the look and feel
> > front
> > can download the current design sources here:
> > http://www.damagehead.com/gnuherds.org/src/
> >
> > design breakup:
> > index.php
> >        main page with the divs and stuff
> > layout.css
> >        CSS that defines the layout.
> >        contains whats to be drawn where, what are the widths, etc
> > color/
> >        the files in this folder contains coloring information, these make
> > up the
> >        individual themes. i.e. what colors to use, what images to use,
> > etc.
> > color/default.css
> >        the current default red look of gnuherds.org.
> > color/blue.css
> >        the experimental blue theme
> >
> > so designers interested in making a cool new theme(s) could just use/edit
> > default.css from color/ and add their own coloring information.
> > i guess later we could make a collection of all these themes and allow
> > users
> > to select their own default theme.
> >
> > it would be logical if we could move the design to gnuherds servers, just
> > to
> > make sure we don't have multiple different versions coming out of the
> > same base design and of course work concurrently of the layout
> > specification.
> >
> > we could now break up the tasks and work on the index.php and
> > layout.cssto get the whole task to completion. the discussion should be
> > regarding making
> > the design take full advantage of CSS such that we should be able change
> > the
> > design by just altering the layout.css and not the requiring any changes
> > on
> > the index.php, hence not requiring any recoding from the backend
> > developers.
> > visit www.csszengarden.com to know what im trying to say.
> > of other things that we need to finalize on is the names to be given to
> > the
> > div's, etc.
> >
> > at this point i'd like to bring up a new topic.
> > - how about a new logo for gnuherds.
> > if this is acceptable to the core gnuherds developers/managers of course.
> > designers please send in your designs.
> >
> > looking forward to your comments and suggestions.
> > ~sameer
> >
> > On Saturday 01 December 2007 11:14:27 am Davi Leal wrote:
> > > Antenore Gatta wrote:
> > > > * I (antenore) start a new div's layout trying to keep/modify the
> > > > original.
> > >
> > >   Status: http://gnuherds.org/div/
> > >
> > > > * Sameer starts from scratch a new div's layout.
> > >
> > >   Status: http://www.damagehead.com/gnuherds.org/
> > >
> > >   The Sameer's work expose some look & feel improvements, and along the
> > >   Sameer's conversation some good ideas have raised.
> > >
> > > > * Someone else seems to work on a new div's layout as well.
> > > > * Andrew would like to start from scratch as well.
> > >
> > > All guys included in the "To" have contributed or exposed the desire to
> > > realize or contribute to the HTML-CSS task.
> > >
> > > > it would be more convenient to organize better the job.
> > > >
> > > > More focus on small tasks (divide et impera)...
> > >
> > > There are two sub-task types:
> > >
> > >   1) Figure out how to _fit together_ all the main <div>s.
> > >      Please, see the next link and comment if it is needed:
> > >        http://gnuherds.org/webpage_main_layout__proposal.png
> > >
> > >      Note: That is what Antenore and Sameer have been trying to do.
> > >
> > >   2) Convert each <div> content to HTML 4.01 Strict, for heading,
> > >      menu, ... and the content of each page.
> > >
> > >      Victor and me has already done something which you can see at:
> > >        http://gnuherds.org/doc/tmp/
> > >      We could just merge it with the current web pages state.
> > >
> > >
> > > All sub-tasks can be done in parallel. Although the main one is (1),
> >
> > which
> >
> > > as you already know is the more difficult to figure out.
> > >
> > > > Maybe we could use the base layout realized by Sameer and subdivide
> >
> > all
> >
> > > > the div's between us. So for example someone (who wants) could work
> >
> > just
> >
> > > > on the menu, after Sameer and/or me (and others also) could merge the
> > > > div's menu in the full layout... Steps by steps?
> > >
> > > I agree with you, Antenore. We could work as a team.
> > >
> > > That was the plan when we proposed work on a "Save as" copy of the HTML
> > > code of the home page to realize the (1) sub-task, and later the (2)
> > > sub-tasks.
> > >
> > > As exposed above there are already some <div>s done, for example:
> > >   http://gnuherds.org/doc/tmp/menu.tpl.gz
> > > Only some pages were processed, and some of them are now out of sync
> > > respect to the current state. You can see: http://gnuherds.org/doc/tmp/
> > >
> > > Davi