Re: Website update?

["Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk gmail com>]

On 6/7/06, Jonathon Jongsma <jonathon jongsma gmail com> wrote:
> On 4/27/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:34 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > Our website is looking a bit unfashionable these days. Would someone
> > > like to play with the CSS and make it look like something from the year
> > > 2005? Just CSS for now - I'd prefer not to bother with a whole new
> > > system yet.
> >
> > Is nobody interesting in making us look a little more hip?
> >
>
> Well, I've finally gotten around to doing an implementation of a new
> website for gtkmm.  For the most part, the content has not been
> changed (there were a few things that I added and a few things that I
> shuffled around, but nothing too significant).  So it's essentially
> just a facelift.
>
> What I ended up implementing doesn't look much like the mockups I
> posted a while back, because although I liked the overall design of
> the mockups, I felt they had some pretty significant problems and I
> wanted to start fresh.  I ended up liking this new design better,
> anyway.  But design is somewhat personal, so you may have a different
> opinion...
>
> The new site is located here:
> http://jonathon.quotidian.org/gtkmm.org/index.shtml
> (be gentle with the server, though.  It's only served on a DSL line for now)
>
> I've changed the colors since I wasn't a big fan of the old colors.  I
> also ended up using relatively few images (there's no 'logo' image
> like the current website has, and no icons like the mockups had).
>
> Play around with it a bit and let me know what you think.  Especially
> let me know what you think of the separation of navigation items into
> two groups -- the main group across the top ("home, license, download,
> etc") and the "Other Resources" on the sidebar.
>
> I'm also interested in how it looks in different browsers.  I've
> tested it in epiphany on Linux, firefox and IE on windows.  I'm aware
> that it currently looks awful in IE because I'm using PNG images with
> alpha (which IE doesn't support at all).  I'll have to fix that at
> some point by either not using alpha or by switching to GIF images.
> If you notice layout problems, let me know.
>
> One comment that came up from Writser when I posted the mockups was
> adding more information targetted to new developers to explain why
> they should use gtkmm.  I think that's a great idea that should be
> pursued, but I didn't incorporate any of that into this design yet.
>
> Note: the "Documentation" and "FAQ" links will not work since they
> point to the standard gtkmm API / tutorial documentation location
> which I haven't uploaded to my staging server.  But it will look
> exactly the same as it does now (i.e.
> http://gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/) -- I haven't touched that part.

You can trick IE into displaying transparent pngs.  Google does it in
http://maps.google.com.

See http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm for details.