Re: [SLUG] Proposed New SLUG Site

From: Russell Hires (rhires@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2005 - 22:21:06 EST


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 10:03 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Russell Hires wrote:
>

> Looks nice. Thanks for the presentation in Brandon.

You're welcome. Glad to do it!

> Nits:
>
> I don't know if it's just me, but I have to magnify the whole thing to 300%
> to make the text a decent size. To put that in perspective, my default
> magnification is 200% so this is 1.5x as big as that. The frames stay put,
> which is a good thing. I guess they're defined as percent of width, not
> pixel count?

I'll investigate that. I 'stole' the default look and feel of plone, as
I was more interested in the way it works than the way it looks.
Everything is done w/ CSS, and checking the source shows that everything
is measured in emms.

> Um, DistroWatch isn't a distribution. I guess it would be a
> meta-distribution.

So I took that one out, too. Not sure what to put in instead. We have
Redhat, Debian, SUSE, Slackware, Mandrake...there's tons of distros, but
what's good for a small list like this? Knoppix? Linspire?...

> You probably don't need to expand GLUE in January 1999 (History) since you
> expanded it in August 1997.
>
> In May 1999, you have the expansion of COLUG first and the acronym in
> parentheses. I think I like that better than the way you do it the other
> times, with the acronym first and then the expansion in parentheses.

Fixed that.

> Is that banner at the bottom ("Plone and its visual design"...) mandatory?

I'm interested in giving credit where credit is due. Maybe I could
change the colophon to have a link to a 'credits' page. Not sure about
that yet...

Russell

> I didn't have any technical problem with the site. Nice work. I'm using
> Opera 7.51.
>

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