Re: Collected suggestions for index.html changes...

[Steve Hall <digitect mindspring com>]

From: "Curtis C. Hovey", Tue Jan 13 13:51:30 2004
> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 13:17, Steve Hall wrote:
> > 
> >   http://www.mindspring.com/~digitect/gnome/gnome.org-screenshot.png
> > 
> > Barbaric, eh?....
> 
  [snip]
> 
> But what does the line wrap have to do with the image? Are you
> suggesting that we create an image map for the banner links? 

No! Just that whatever goes into the absolutely sized header box, be
absolutely sized. The title is disrupting the nav links because it
re-sizes. You can't stuff a re-sizable object into an absolutely sized
box. I feel I am repeating myself.


> > If this is where our HACKING guidelines or any other rigid
> > adherence to theoretical guidelines or standards get us, then
> > we've taken a wrong turn somewhere. 
> > 
> > I appear to be a lone dissenter here. Does anyone else care?
> 
> We care, images aren't the solution though. Anytime a design fall
> back on an image, the design has failed. The font issue I see in the
> image is a CSS issue. I think mastering the CSS is the correct
> solution.

Trust me--long time readers of this list know I have great... er,
patience working out CSS issues. This conflict can not be mastered
with CSS without unwise absolute sizing, defeating the whole purpose
behind using CSS in the first place.

Other areas of the current site manage the header better by allowing
it more flexibility to grow as font changes. They have no conflicts
within the header itself, and the remainder of the page floats around
quite admirably.

Where did the idea that the front page be suddenly re-designed come
from? I do believe I started the whole appeal to face lift the protest
look, but I never intended to imply a re-design, only to brighten the
front door (jdub ;) or make it conform to the rest of the site.

I see no reason to re-design the site yet again, only to implement it
the first time. (Am I laughing or crying at this point?)


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Steve Hall  [ digitect mindspring com ]