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Re: Retemplater
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Scott Stevenson |
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Re: Retemplater |
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Wed, 17 Dec 2003 19:05:28 -0800 |
On Dec 17, 2003, at 6:17 PM, MJ Ray wrote:
OK, I'll base a new template on that, although I don't see huge
differences.
It's subtle. The main difference is that each paragraph/topic is
separated by a horizontal line on the home page. This is isn't done on
the secondary page since most other pages will usually center around a
single topic. On the home page, the lines help to visually separate the
major topic areas.
I meant to ask: Why is it secondary.html instead of
information/aboutGNUstep.html?
It's just a template for the secondary pages that happens to have the
"about" content.
Why do we only have h3, no h1 or h2?
No particular reason other than it was just a design decision. I don't
think you necessarily have to use multiple header sizes, although
sometimes they help. Really big text can actually be harder to read,
depending on the length of the header.
I think the current template focuses attention on the first header in a
more elegant way than just making bigger text. But that's just my
personal take.
I updated the css file to set a white background colour, as I think
that's what was meant.
Ah, yes. Thank you.
I also plan to change the listboxes into links to another page,
probably resources/relatedsites.html or similar. Using listboxes would
suggest javascript (accessibility no-no without an alternative) or a
CGI and is it worth the effort over a links page?
I'll leave this decision to the group. The main goal there was to
prevent overloading the visitor with non-essentials right off the bat
-- makes them more likely to miss the bigger message. The dropdowns
were just my solution. Sort of a compromise. I would think a tiny
little PHP (or whatever) script might do the job nicely. It could just
be as simple as:
$page = $_POST['linkdropdown'];
$server = "http://www.gnustep.com";
header("Location: " . $server . "/" . $page . ".html");
There's really no need to even scan the content of the form value. Or
we could just do a separate links pages as you suggest.
- Scott
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