Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-07 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Matthew Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-02-07 00:07]: > Mind you I wouldn't say that Linux-i386 'finished' either as all development > is ongoing (im sure you realise that)... Take it as 'finished' like 'we released it already and support it'-finished. HTH, Alfie -- Für Linux? mutt und son

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:59:59PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ Thank you for your nice work. I checked this under several browsers: Mozilla, Galeon, and Amaya (1024, 640 width) in X; and Lynks, Links, and W3m in console (80 Char/line) Please consider using less

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Matthew Bell
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 20:03:35 +0100 "Josip Rodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:53:21PM +, Matthew Bell wrote: > Bah, and the text about the linux kernel needs to be changed, perhaps: > "Debian can use the Linux, NetBSD, or Hurd kernels, but most of the basic > > OS too

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
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Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:53:21PM +, Matthew Bell wrote: > Bah, and the text about the linux kernel needs to be changed, perhaps: > "Debian can use the Linux, NetBSD, or Hurd kernels, but most of the basic > OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the GNU prefix" (not sure about > the NetBSD

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:46:25PM +, Matthew Bell wrote: You should wrap your lines at <80 chars. > - The Tabs need to be aligned by widthes and lefts, and tops and > - heights, for horizontally and vertically adjacent tabs, > - respectively. Even if that means table hacks and al

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Matthew Bell
Bah, and the text about the linux kernel needs to be changed, perhaps: "Debian can use the Linux, NetBSD, or Hurd kernels, but most of the basic OS tools come from the GNU project; hence the GNU prefix" (not sure about the NetBSD port and GNU/Linux will have to be written down somewhere) Also, t

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Matthew Bell
My two cents (warning: may include re-iteration and completely pedantic points): - The Tabs need to be aligned by widthes and lefts, and tops and heights, for horizontally and vertically adjacent tabs, respectively. Even if that means table hacks and all (how about making horizontally align

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > However, browsing at 800x600 and 1024x768 is much more common than e.g. That's my resolution. > 1600x1200. In fact, it is usually much more sane, because (like with things > written on paper) there's a point where

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-06 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:40:03PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > My main beef with the left+right idea is that there's a load of empty space > > below the left bar on small resolutions. Then again that can be fixed... > This could be a reason, but you can't cope with everybodys screen > resoluti

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > > As in http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/Pics/about.en.gif for instance. > > No, I mean in the cards: > > ___ > | Title | <-- heading I inteded this, because yellow on black is just ugly. > .---. > | contents |

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:37:40PM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > > Why not using white on blue as in the main navigation bar images? > > > > Both the border or just the heading? > As in http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/Pics/about.en.gif for instance. No, I mean in the cards: ___ | Title |

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > My main beef with the left+right idea is that there's a load of empty space > below the left bar on small resolutions. Then again that can be fixed... This could be a reason, but you can't cope with everybodys screen resolution. Navigation on the left is a

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:39:55AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > > Why not using white on blue as in the main navigation bar images? > > Both the border or just the heading? As in http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/Pics/about.en.gif for instance. > > I really l

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 10:59:44AM +, Jaime E. Villate wrote: > a simple table with one column on the left (navigation bar) and only text > on the right. My main beef with the left+right idea is that there's a load of empty space below the left bar on small resolutions. Then again that can be

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:39:55AM +0100, Tille, Andreas wrote: > Why not using white on blue as in the main navigation bar images? Both the border or just the heading? > I really like the nevigation at the left side. So I would prefer the > current layout but with the "Quick Links" as column on

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:18:29PM +, Rob Bradford wrote: > * Maybe put quick links at the bottom of the page. ... > * Definitely put the tab left aligned for the quick links, not centred. > * You sure you want lower case for "quick links" all the others are > upper case. These two went toge

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Jaime E. Villate
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Josip Rodin wrote: > > http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ You've done a good job in reorganizing the important information, but I still preferred a simple table with one column on the left (navigation bar) and only text on the right. I think

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ > Mmh, I hjappen to mbe sitting in front of a windows 98 computer, and all > I see when I load the page is several downloads of images, and then a > completly white page. View source shows some html. Weird.

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-05 Thread Tille, Andreas
On 4 Feb 2002, Rob Bradford wrote: > * Definitely put the tab left aligned for the quick links, not centred. Agreed. > * You sure you want lower case for "quick links" all the others are > upper case. Should be upper case, IMHO. > * Boxes on the same level the same height, e.g. Install and Upgra

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-04 Thread Joey Hess
Josip Rodin wrote: > http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ Mmh, I hjappen to mbe sitting in front of a windows 98 computer, and all I see when I load the page is several downloads of images, and then a completly white page. View source shows some html. Weird. That's netscape 4.5. Looks like it works in IE

Re: new front page, take 2

2002-02-04 Thread Rob Bradford
On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 20:59, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ > > I think I actually included the majority of the previous suggestions :) > Notice the other touches in the boxes... > > -- > 2. That which causes joy or happiness. Nice, not what i would have done. M

new front page, take 2

2002-02-04 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, http://joy.gkvk.hr/newfront2/ I think I actually included the majority of the previous suggestions :) Notice the other touches in the boxes... -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.