I do not have Privileges there but I am a part owner of devaus.com and
we handle sites like nokia and RTV world wide, given privileges I can
set it up anywhere of course but we can also host it.

Peace

Wyn

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Miles Libbey <mi...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
> 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

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