[Webteam] Re: Frontpage - again

[karl]

goran at krampe.se wrote:

>karl <karl.ramberg at chello.se> wrote:
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>>>>>I like this idea a lot.  Any takers?  Karl has some experience in this
>>>>>area (he sent me the code to implement the download box) so he may
>>>>>have suggestions.
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>>>>I can take a look at it.
>>>>Karl
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>Ah! Yummy. I like it a lot and can actually think of having more of
>these - in similar fitting colors. One more on the right and one on the
>left wouldn't hurt the site IMHO. But we should of course only use them
>for things that seem proper to have on the side.
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>Hmm, but wait - the standard colors is dark blue on light blue. Which is
>nice, even though some people might want a lighter blue in order to
>increase contrast for easier reading. The download box has dark green
>with light green, quite stylish. Now, what about following that trend?
>The link box could then say have... dark orange/light orange?
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I will test that.

>And while talking about "looks" - the navigation box on the left doesn't
>sit quite well with me.  The text seem a tad small and it doesn't have a
>heading in the same way as the other boxes - which I think it probably
>should have. 
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This should be doable. What should the box be called ?

>And quite frankly - but I know this is tricky work - the
>expansion/collapsing confuses me since it is not visuall shown what
>entries have subentries etc. I have spent a bunch of hours on similar
>logic in my homepage builder, so I know this is hard. But perhaps we can
>at least visually hint that an entry has children?
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I think it should be doable because these links are SWPages and 
SWFolders so one can just
hook up some gif to the menu template code in the server image and have 
a little arrow added to the
SWFolder items.

>Sidenote: You can see my implementation of a tree TOC at www.porkala.nu.
>Note how triangles expand/collapse without selection etc, quite
>intricate logic there.
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>And:
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>- Font sizes should always be in ems. It is the only unit that takes
>resolution and screen size into account. Two of many articles on the
>subject:
>	http://www.awprofessional.com/articles/article.asp?p=397663&rl=1
>	http://www.maxdesign.com.au/presentation/relative/
>- Do check out www.alistapart.com, and see how they do things. Those
>guys are PROs.
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I'll read up on this. Not sure how this will pan out, I'm not really a 
style script guy ;-)
Karl

>regards, Göran
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