Hello! I just committed some changes (changeset [1018]) to svn for the openguides.org website, specifically updating the "latest news". What needs to be done to put these changes live?
Also, I wanted to suggest a change to the stylesheet, but that's Earle's domain so I didn't want to just commit it without asking. Could we have the line-height increased a bit? Say to 1.3em? See here:
http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite/page
and compare:
I do think the former is more legible.
Kake
On 09/04/07, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
Hello! I just committed some changes (changeset [1018]) to svn for the openguides.org website, specifically updating the "latest news". What needs to be done to put these changes live?
Poke me! Done.
Also, I wanted to suggest a change to the stylesheet, but that's Earle's domain so I didn't want to just commit it without asking. Could we have the line-height increased a bit? Say to 1.3em? [URLs snipped] I do think the former is more legible.
Your change is barely visible from here (FF2/Win), but certainly isn't detrimental, so please feel free to commit it. I'll update the live site when you give me the nod.
On Mon 09 Apr 2007, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote:
Poke me! Done.
Thank you!
Your change is barely visible from here (FF2/Win), but certainly isn't detrimental, so please feel free to commit it. I'll update the live site when you give me the nod.
Done, and thanks. It makes a big difference on FF2/OS X: http://the.earth.li/~kake/images/misc/squashed.png vs. http://the.earth.li/~kake/images/misc/not-squashed.png
Kake
I've been trying to figure out what's going on on http://openguides.org/page/release_notes
I thought at first that the table of release notes wasn't showing up at all, but then I realised it _is_ there, but it's stuck down at the bottom underneath the stuff about Free The Postcode etc. The problem's showing up on Firefox 2.0.0.3, Safari 2.0.2, and Opera 8.51, all on OS X. (Also, on Opera, the "Public Geo Data" box overlaps the "Take me there..." box, but only on that one page.) I can't figure out the structure of the page so I'm not sure how to fix it. Earle, could you take a look? Or anyone else?
Also regarding the website, I'm trying to figure out how the Randomness Guide to London should be linked in the "Take me there..." list of OpenGuides installations. Obviously it can't just be "London", but it doesn't really have a brief description, so it can't just be "Foo London" in the same way as "Vegan Oxford". It's focused on pubs and restaurants, but I don't think "London Pubs" is really accurate since that doesn't include restaurants. "London Randomness" is possible, if people don't think that would be confusing. "Randomness Guide to London" would be best, but it's a bit long; "London Randomness" might be too long as well, actually, come to think of it - there'd most likely be a linebreak between "London" and "Randomness", which would be very confusing. "Randomness" on its own is out, since I don't think people would expect a guide without a city name to be focused on a single city. Any ideas?
Kake
On 10/04/07, Kake L Pugh kake@earth.li wrote:
I've been trying to figure out what's going on on http://openguides.org/page/release_notes
I thought at first that the table of release notes wasn't showing up at all, but then I realised it _is_ there, but it's stuck down at the bottom underneath the stuff about Free The Postcode etc.
Hmm, yes, that's knackered. Wonder when that happened. I'll take a poke at it.
Also regarding the website, I'm trying to figure out how the Randomness Guide to London should be linked in the "Take me there..." list of OpenGuides installations. Obviously it can't just be "London", but it doesn't really have a brief description, so it can't just be "Foo London" in the same way as "Vegan Oxford". It's focused on pubs and restaurants, but I don't think "London Pubs" is really accurate since that doesn't include restaurants. "London Randomness" is possible, if people don't think that would be confusing. "Randomness Guide to London" would be best, but it's a bit long; "London Randomness" might be too long as well, actually, come to think of it - there'd most likely be a linebreak between "London" and "Randomness", which would be very confusing. "Randomness" on its own is out, since I don't think people would expect a guide without a city name to be focused on a single city. Any ideas?
Good question, I don't have a ready answer. If this project starts growing and growing, multi-guide cities will probably get more common (we can dream, can't we?) so this will become a more important question.
In general, the site design isn't too great and all suggestions are appreciated.
On Tue 10 Apr 2007, Earle Martin openguides@downlode.org wrote: [long names in the list of Guides]
Good question, I don't have a ready answer. If this project starts growing and growing, multi-guide cities will probably get more common (we can dream, can't we?) so this will become a more important question.
In general, the site design isn't too great and all suggestions are appreciated.
If we could get the list of guides into one column, that might help, since then we could make it wider. I think the tricky part is making the list not look like a navigation widget - I think as it stands it succeeds in this, but if we made it longer and thinner then it'd look like a navbar, which would be confusing since people don't expect navbars to take them off the current site.
So I started thinking of ways to make it not look like a navbar. Here's one rough (very rough) sketch: http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite/page
People on IRC didn't like it, but it's just an idea that may hopefully spark something in someone's mind, so I'm posting it anyway. Inspiration came from here: http://alistapart.com/articles/outsidethegrid
Kake
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