Re: Beta-test new site design, was: Status of the "new" GNUstep website?

[Scott Stevenson]

On Jan 10, 2004, at 10:23 AM, MJ Ray wrote:

> The rest of the pages have been converted to the new site design and a 
> few tweaks made. A beta-test copy of the site is available on 
> http://towers.dynsite.net/

Thanks for putting this up!

Here are some things I found on this test site that aren't present on 
the "live" gnustep.org site:

(index.html)

1. Header image (gnustep-header15.jpg) is set to 560 width, actual 
image is 660 wide
2. Unless the browser window is set to a small size, there's a huge gap 
between the two columns in 'getting started' now that the table has 
been replaced with a list. This has also caused the left column to 
"touch" the edge of the browser window in some browsers.
3. The bullets are too far left in the news section (again, list vs 
table)
4. In both news and getting started, the bullets are supposed to be 
indented from the header text in order to "frame" the content. I think 
it makes the whole thing easier to read. I really think we should 
revert these two sections back to tables.

And this may be personal taste issue, but I think the 'current 
packages' section looks better on the main site. The huge size of the 
text doesn't seem as elegant.


(gnustep-main.css)

1. I see you've changed the font-size to points from pixels. Is this to 
get platform-relative sizes? With points, we now have text that looks 
good in Safari, but is too small in Firebird. Using pixels as font size 
units unifies the sizes, and users can still zoom the text as desired 
via the browser. But if we have to use relative scale, let's use ems or 
percentages for font-sizes in all definitions except in the body. That 
will provide true proportional scaling. Points is kind of the worst of 
both worlds.  :)

2. I think there's a bit too much spacing between elements in the 
sidebar. Maybe take line-height down a bit more?



Thanks again,

   - Scott

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