Good morning everyone, On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 12:03:33 -0700, "Louis Suarez-Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Mikka,* > > >Hi, > > > >I noticed this announcement on my start page: > >> > >> Headline Please introduce yourself on the dev list Date > >> May 3, 2003 Contributed by louis > >> > >> Hi, if you are joining Website, please introduce yourself on > >> [email protected] (dev- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> and state your skills and interests and availability for work. > >> thanks, Louis Suarez-Potts Project Lead > >> > > > >Yes, I am joining Website. > > [snip] > > Thanks for joining us! So far we've benefited greatly from your > contributions. And there's lots more you can do :-) > Well, haven't done too much.
> >But what I can do for the website project... I think you can use me if > >you need. I've already done some browser testing and given suggestions > >on the design and code, but it seems that you've done wonderful job > >here even without me (of course). I'll probably hang around here, read > >my email every once in a while, throwing suggestions. I can also look > >through the current code and make improvements, hopefully making it > >more stable and compact. > > I updated our to-dos, but they are the pretty obvious ones... here is > some more info. > > * Kay is working, I think, on the style guide. It's pretty important, as > I would like to create templates for project leads to use. These would > specify color, CSS, useful javascripts, etc. The basic philosophy is > pragmatic but focused on making sure we comply with standards and use > CSS. > For who is this style guide targeted? Project page maintainers or as a resource for the whole community in general? And can we do the style guide if the design isn't completely finished yet? How do we make sure the style guide is being used? It seems that we need a qualified web designer also with knowledge on JavaScript to work on the guide. Everything has to be taken into account. > * Update the download javascript page.... I'd like to randomize the > selection of servers within a country and then offer that random server > to users invisibly. Kind of like the way the other guys do it :-) We > do not have load balancing among our archipelago, so are at a > disadvantage. But I get a lot of mail on webmasters (Jacqueline and I > are the webmasters) from users panicked by choice. > Why go for JavaScript, sounds more like some server-side scripting task to me? I'm not an expert in JavaScript, though, but I also understand that this task wasn't targeted for me (despite this is a reply for my post). ;) > * Support page. There is a small group working on updating the support > page, led by Gerry, Diane, Jacqueline. It's a pretty important page and > will get even more important. It should list more or less what it lists > now, but better ;-) > Where is this updating process taking place? I'm curious. > Other things that other projects are using and could be enhanced.... > > * Alex: the CDROM page is great, but I was thinking of deploying the > template used for the Consultants page. Is that a reasonable idea? The > finished template would be used for the OEM page. > > * Sponsors page. I created a draft of a sponsors page a while ago and > would like to move ahead with it. It's here, > <http://website.openoffice.org/tryouts/my/louis/sponsors.htm> and would > be linked from About us, as well as Distribution projects... What I > would love is to see if we can improve it. > Ok, one thing. Reduce the pixel size of all the buttons to, say, 2/3 of the current. Then make the Markt und Technik, O'Reilly, Sun and Linux Enterprise logos at least six or seven times smaller in filesize. Then add alternative texts to them. > * Sitemap. John McCreesh currently maintains the sitemap pretty much > singlehandedly. I'm sure he could do with help ;-) > Also, I'd like to be able to add a feature to that page so that users > could rate the consultant (if not cdrom distro), in eBay style. Is > this possible to do with our technology (ie, javascript)? > Sounds like a full-time job. > > > >That's about everything for now... > > > >Miikka Leskinen miles_fin > > > The first thing I planned to do was to go through the homepage code and make changes that would be improvements according to my skills, and send patch proposals. But currently I don't have access to the latest code, and WinHTTrack doesn't seem to work on sc40. I did download the whole sc40 by hand the day before yesterday to look at it offline, but now it was updated again. > >ps. And no, I don't have a blog currently. > > Yay. Neither do I, though I am pressed, daily, to have one. > Everyone has a blog nowadays. It's like the online resource of you as a person. Your URI. That's why it's always good to include an address to your blog if you introduce yourself somewhere. I'm under the pressure, too. It wasn't impossible to predict back in 2002 that, hey, that must be the future of the Internet! I would have blogged that. ;) > > > Cheers > Louis > > PS and welcome! > Regards, Miikka Leskinen miles_fin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
