On Jun 7, 2011, at 2:15 PM, Igor Galić wrote: >>> IMO, the current staged front page does not look good. The >>> projects that have front pages that I think look decent (Cassandra >>> (http://cassandra.apache.org/), Memcached (http://memcached.org/), >>> Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/), Redhat >>> (http://www.redhat.com/), Miro (http://www.getmiro.com/), Pidgim >>> (http://www.pidgin.im/), etc) have mixed grids, with 1-3 columns >>> per 'row.' I'm ok with not using the current live front page >>> design -- but, it really should be somewhat purposely designed -- >>> the current staged front page gives me a feeling it got the >>> default documentation treatment, and suffers as a result. A bit of >>> css isn't really going to help that -- there isn't enough document >>> structure to change much. >> >> +1. I actually like the look and feel of our current home page a lot. >> I >> was hoping that we could keep it, or at least something similar. I >> think >> part of the problem is that no one (other than you Miles) is really >> comfortable with site designs, CSS etc. So, it'd be great to get your >> help here I think. > > The current staging page is a result of me migrating the content to > and neglecting the style -- simply because I suck at CSS.
Happy to help -- but, honestly, I've no idea where to even start on this one. I started looking at it with an intent to make a few css changes to replicate the current live home page, but, realized: - the front page likely needs some additional CSS that would be irrelevant to (and/or conflicting with) the rest of the site ... and no clue how to add that. - even if I could add them, the html doesn't have the page structural elements to target the elements -- and no clue how to give the sections the appropriate targets. For the current page, my CSS skillz are way overrated. I went to a point and click site layout generator: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/ clicked a few buttons, and copied the resulting output. The linked in styles have all the smarts of getting columns and defining widths cross-browser. miles
