On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > >> I'd like to run this by as an idea. > >> > >> Today, the announcement at the top of our website is controlled by this > >> file: > >> > >> > >> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/brand.mdtext > >> > >> The "announce" and "announceurl" values then enter into the > >> templating process via: > >> > >> > >> > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/templates/brand.html > >> > >> Specifically: > >> > >> {% block announce %}{% if headers.announce %}<div id="announce"><a > >> href="{{ headers.announceurl }}" title="{{ headers.announcetip }}">{{ > >> headers.announce }}</a></div>{% endif %}{% endblock %} > >> > >> So what if we want to support images there as well? > >> > >> Two approaches: > >> > >> 1) Add additional possible value for brand.mdtext, "announceimage". > >> Change logic in brand.html so it follows some precedence order, say > >> look for announceimage first, if that exists, put an <img> there, > >> otherwise look for announce and display that as a <a> hyperlink. > >> > >> 2) Or, we could just change announce so it is the contents of a <div>. > >> So brand.html is actually simplified, and brand.mdtext would contain > >> the actual markup. For example, it could be: announce=<a > >> href="foo.html"><img src="foo.jpg" alt="foo"/></a> > >> > > > > The Announcements line already has a div generated for it --- > > > > see generated source: > > > > <div id="announce"><a > > href="http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html > > <view-source:http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html>" > > title="Read the announcement">Volunteers needed in all areas — Help us > > make 4.0 the best OpenOffice ever!</a></div> > > > > If this helps. Style is in: > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/css/ooo.css > > > > But you are correct, the WAY this is generated would need some changes. > > > > > > > > > > > >> > >> #2 has the advantage of flexibility, that it allows other kinds of > >> markup to be inserted there, including lists, tables, etc.. Of > >> course, UI-wise, there is not a lot of space to play with, but it > >> would have that flexibility. > >> > >> Any thoughts? > >> > > > > I would need to see some examples before any more thoughts on this. Right > > now I think the format of the Announcements really needs some improvement > > -- via margins especially. > > > > Any images etc well might not work real well with current design. > > > > If you have something particular in mind, some mockups would help. > > > > I did a quick test, on a test page, to replace the <a> in the <div> > with an <img>. That didn't work at all. It looks like the CSS is > controlling the height of the <div> and general chaos follows: > > http://www.openoffice.org/index-image-passthru.html > > I'll need to study this more to see how we can support both images and > text links. > yeah...I've been trying to figure out how to get the navigation line (after the Announcement line) to push down as we would expect as well. That's more or less the crux of the problem I think. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > > > > > >> > >> -Rob > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > MzK > > > > "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin." > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Achieving happiness requires the right combination of Zen and Zin."
