Mike, thank you for your comments. > I haven't looked at this but what is a style changer tool ( would it > be obvious if I looked? Just change style sheets or something).
Yes, it would be obvious if you looked. It simply has a drop down box that lets you choose the header color, font type or page width (please look before making assumptions). I could have provided a list of links with each slight variation or I could have quickly coded this tool to let the user play with the combinations - I think this makes it easier and it only took me a few minutes. > My point here is not to ask random > questions about tangential topics but this highlights > an important area of command line tools for graphical > desgin needs. Could you build all the artwork and generate all the html > from command line scripts and give these scripts various parameters > so that variations could beconsistently generated using general rules? I don't see why not, but then I also don't see the point of that. There are very few images used in my sample, and those that are used are only there for aesthetics - they convey nothing important. Even the title is text driven, unlike the current site. > One objective beyond making cool pictures may be to see how well you can > automate > and design without a GUI program. I'm confused here. Design what exactly? My proposed website was coded entirely using a text editor. No serious web developer uses GUI programs. > This isn't just academic or banter or whining about saving a few bytes > when everyone knows the speed of light is increasing each day, > but lets say you wanted to generate web pages for wireless, unusual > locales, or other > devics that have some fixed relation to your main pages and don't want > to redesign them etc. No images were used to convey information. The website can be translated into other languages very easily while retaining the look and feel. As with all websites I build, presentation is separate from content. This means we can simply apply a different style sheet to change the way the site renders (if we chose to), but that wouldn't be necessary for this Website. It is such a simple site that it can be viewed on any device you like as it is - feel free to try it out in lynx via Cygwin. As an example of the site's versatility, you will enjoy a convenient "skip to content" link that magically doesn't appear on the site when viewed in a graphical web browser such as Firefox. I have no doubt improvements could be made to the text-only version, and I'd be more than happy to make those. > Using cygwin to design and generate the site would be a good result in itself > :) As I said, only a text editor has been used to build the site. Cheers, Brent -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
