Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-07 Thread Urs Liska
Am 06.12.2013 09:12, schrieb Janek Warchoł: 2013/12/6 Carl Peterson : Having worked for two corporations that have fairly extensive (and stringent) visual identity and branding guidelines (colors, typeface, formatting, etc.), I've learned that there are ways to make an obvious change between two

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Phil Holmes wrote: > > Well, yes, as CPU load. I remain of the view that this is not a good use > of time - there are other things that will be of greater value for less > effort. Remember, you'll not be doing this by editing HTML, but the > texi2HTML control fil

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: "Phil Burfitt" To: "Phil Holmes" ; "Carl Peterson" ; "James Harkins" Cc: "Mailinglist lilypond-user" Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:59 PM Subject: Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Window

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Burfitt
- Original Message - From: "Phil Holmes" Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 3:35 PM Our server is provided on a goodwill basis, and so we would not want to use any scripting that might load it. Carl Perterson wrote: CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one less server reques

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Phil Holmes
- Original Message - From: Carl Peterson I want to eventually eliminate any image file that does not contribute to content. The first victim of this will be the gradient images used for the header and navigation backgrounds. CSS gradients can be coded for fewer bytes and one less serv

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Peterson
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:00 AM, James Harkins wrote: > A side comment, picking up on a comment in the "Windows experience" thread: > > I hope the new site will avoid any hooks to Google analytics or other APIs. > I'm behind the Great Firewall of China, and I see frequently how Google > dependenci

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread James Harkins
A side comment, picking up on a comment in the "Windows experience" thread: I hope the new site will avoid any hooks to Google analytics or other APIs. I'm behind the Great Firewall of China, and I see frequently how Google dependencies cause page loading times to balloon, while the browser wait

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-06 Thread Janek Warchoł
2013/12/6 Carl Peterson : > Having worked for two corporations that have fairly extensive (and > stringent) visual identity and branding guidelines (colors, typeface, > formatting, etc.), I've learned that there are ways to make an obvious > change between two things while still making them look li

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-05 Thread Carl Peterson
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Carl Sorensen wrote: > > On 12/5/13 9:43 AM, "Carl Peterson" wrote: > > > > >1) Review the CSS of both the website and the documentation. These are > >simply CSS files that don't need any compiling or reconfiguring. The > >eyesore for me is the documentation, and

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-05 Thread Carl Sorensen
On 12/5/13 9:43 AM, "Carl Peterson" wrote: > >1) Review the CSS of both the website and the documentation. These are >simply CSS files that don't need any compiling or reconfiguring. The >eyesore for me is the documentation, and it would be nice to start to >move the two into more of a seamless

Re: LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-05 Thread Janek Warchoł
Hi, 2013/12/5 Carl Peterson : > Having dived into the git repo and page source a little, here is what I see > as the "road map" to improving the look of the LilyPond website, with an eye > toward getting the most benefit the fastest. > [...] I have no expertise in these areas, so i cannot comment

LilyPond Website Work (was: A thought on Windows Experience)

2013-12-05 Thread Carl Peterson
Branching this discussion into its own topic On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Phil Burfitt wrote: > > Tim McNamara wrote: > >> >> If you think that Lilypond's web page needs a facelift, then >> volunteer to roll up your sleeves and help change it... >> >> > Werner Lemberg wrote: > >> >> Do yo