Re: Atonement

[Ron Smits <ron ronsmits com>]

Tell me what is wrong with the www.gnome.org look and feel? or the
gnomedesktop.org, they are clean, fast, efficient and consistent.

If there would be a new garnome page/website I would really hope a L&F
like that would be implemented

Ron

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:59 -0500, Paul Miller wrote:

> IF you are  willing to give me one final chance, I stripped out ALL my
> junk - and it WAS junk - and just kept to the original text - which
> is what I shoulda done in the 1st place,
> 
> Ron, thanks for your heartfelt opinion!  And for sending it so quickly!
> I think it saved me from going down in ALOT of FLAMES! I definitely
> got carried away and NEEDED a wake-up call. Really: thank you!
> 
> Apologies again to anybody I might have offended and to the list for
> using up so much bandwidth on this...
> 
> If you just want to cut to the chase, it's at:
> 
> http://mysite.verizon.net/~vze542zg/gnew.garnome/
> 
> 
> 'Technical' notes: (only if you're interested)
> 
> Logo: Too big? Probly!  The nice shadow under it in the ENORMOUS
> png file got faded-to-black in the more-managable gif. I'll either have to
> crop it or play with png compression. (Are png's on websites frowned
> upon .... still?)
> 
> Background: just a quick & dirty 1st cut. Needs to be smoothed to get rid of
> banding in the footer and other things. I can use ANY background, though!
> Any suggestions? I just need to cut it into 3 pieces. Bear in mind,  a 
> BIG file
> will be slow to load, and small files will look blocky and distorted under
> browser-scaling.
> 
> If you'd rather have a background like gnome.org, *THAT'S* a piece of cake!
> 
> Browsers: Works OK under moz & firefox (not surprising). Those are the
> only ones I have.
> 
> Scrolling: jumpiness particularly with smooth-scrolling enabled. Probly due
> to css transparency, which I may not even need ....
> 
> Templates: template.html for pages, along with templates in the faq, 
> downloads,
> and links pages.
> 
> Links page: just a place-holder right now. If it's a desirable page, 
> I'll add a table.
> 
> CSS: I'm not super-proficient at it, so maybe I have a lot of unecessary,
> trial-and-error artifacts in garnomestyle.css. If anybody's REALLY
> interested, suggestions would be MOST appreciated.
> 
> All for now
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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> 
> Paul Miller
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> 
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