Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
steve crosby wrote: Something onlong the lines of this: http://nontroppo.org/test/tab1.html Just a thought tho ;) That's nice. I really like it. :) However, I'm not sure if we should go about changing what we have on beta. For my own personal site there's a *lot* of design elements that I w

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote: > > Oh, and you can make the menu selections look more like "tabs" using > > CSS with relative ease. > > Sure. :) But again, the look is intentional. Out of curiosity, what did > you have in mind there? > Something on

AW: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Palm
Huntwork Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2005 14:21 An: Website Maintenance List; LFS Developers Mailinglist; LFS Support List; BLFS Development List; alfs-discuss@linuxfromscratch.org; livecd@linuxfromscratch.org; hlfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Betreff: [RFC] New LFS Website Hello Everyone: The LFS Website

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Matthew Burgess wrote: Ahmed El-Daly wrote: Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Yep, and they'll be fixed even sooner if you would be so kind to specify exactly *which* links are broken :)

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ahmed El-Daly wrote: Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Yep, and they'll be fixed even sooner if you would be so kind to specify exactly *which* links are broken :) Regards, Matt. -- http

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
steve crosby wrote: For those of us with high resolution screens, it's also a fair distance to move the mouse ;) When I work on a high-resolution screen, I avoid maximizing browser windows. If I maximize a browser window, lines of text become more than 66 characters long and therefore difficu

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Ahmed El-Daly
Pretty slick. Much nicer than the old one. Some of the links point to nowhere though. I guess that will be fixed as it goes in production. Any chance of changing the search engine too? I find that it is not very accurate and that the way it highlights the search terms makes it hard to read the res

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: Hmm... :) I think, really, that the logo on the "old" site, with the soft drop-shadows and the way the menu highlights give it the look... :) I think that the menu highlights just need a little "3d'ing" to give them that edge. :) *shrug* Perhaps I'm just used to the old o

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Robert Russell
On 7/5/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux > From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now > nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new > sit

RE: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread David Fix
> What do you think would make it look "polished"? > > -- > JH Hmm... :) I think, really, that the logo on the "old" site, with the soft drop-shadows and the way the menu highlights give it the look... :) I think that the menu highlights just need a little "3d'ing" to give them that edge. :)

[RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 07:21, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to see this new > design implemented

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Fix wrote: Well, if my two cents is worth anything... It looks GREAT. :) Not "polished" like the old site, but the layout is certainly more intuitive and easier to follow! What do you think would make it look "polished"? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev F

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
steve crosby wrote: Clean, and good looking Thank you. - just one question. Was it a concious choice to make the top menu right justified? For most languages, reading from left to right is the norm, and the right justified menus seem "odd". For those of us with high resolution screens, it's

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to see this new > design implemente

RE: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread David Fix
> Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) > and reply to > the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We > would like > to hear from the community as to whether they would like to > see this new > design implemented. > > http://beta.linuxfromscratch.org/ >

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Shane Shields
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello Everyone: The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new site was to produce a simple and readable

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Rainer Peter Feller
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 08:21 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello Everyone: > > The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux > From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now > nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new

[RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello Everyone: The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new site was to produce a simple and readable site that is easy to nav