Hi, wow... sorry for not replying sooner -- a procmail filter stuffed all of this mail into an old 'debian' mail folder (I now have deb lists by -devel -user)
On 06 Nov 2000 at 21:38 (+0100), Josip Rodin wrote: | On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 11:07:48PM -0500, brent verner wrote: | > | > > Now coming to another topic. Your website. Whow... | > | > > It's just like the other stuff the best I ever saw. | > | > | > | > Yeah, that's right... But the website could be more attractive.. A user | > | > doesn't want to download debian when he sees the webpage... | > | | > | BTW the web site team would welcome any help from people who can do web | > | designing, e.g. good icons, nice layouts, etc. | > | > ok, this weekend I played HTML-designer... the product of my toils | > can be viewed at debian.rcfile.org. you _will_ need a browser that | > renders HTML-4.01 strict properly (meaning Mozilla M18) right now. | > if the design is agreeable, I may be able to help _some_ with | > churning out HTML that lesser browsers (Netscape 4.x) can render. | | I used Mozilla M17 to view it. It looks quite cool, although the fonts are a thanks. i'm using mozilla m18, so anything visible at this point in time is only known to work in that... | bit too small. Is that fixed size? I can't parse ".9em" offhand, but I'm | guessing it's not variable because I remember setting up my fonts | preferences to use bigger font size. yes. I've changed that to 1em except for where a larger font is desired. could you check it again. | The "H A N D S D S" part wasn't immediately obvious what it was for, so I | didn't like it. agreed. the HANDSDS just ended up there... mostly i was trying to decide if there should be some graphic/icon links in that space... the letters were just space-fillers which happen to be the first letter of each section of the debian site... | The incompatibility with old-class Nescaffe browsers would pose a large | problem -- Mozilla still isn't too widely used. agreed, unfortunately :\ I can put some time into creating a table -based version if/once a design is agreed upon, but I _really_ think the site should be designed with an eye toward forsaking the old, non- compliant browsers at some point in time. cheers. brent -- All opinions expressed are My own, unless otherwise attributed. In presenting facts, I expressly reserve the right to be Wrong. Portions of this message authored by Me are subject to the Free Thought License.
