I agree with some of the visual issues Noel has, but generally I like it. I guess it depends how easy it is to maintain..
the Great Joy of the current system is that its a simple XSLT transformation we have one XSL stylesheet and a single ant-task to create the html from the xml. d. > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 22 November 2002 09:18 > To: James Developers List > Subject: Re: Forrest-made James test site - sneak preview > > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Nicola, > > > > What options exist to make it look more visually appealing? > > Make a skin for it :-) > > > Maybe it is > > just me, but when I compare the Forrest-made test site to > Danny's Maven-made > > test site at http://jakarta.apache.org/~danny/, I prefer the look of the > > latter. > > > > Specifics: > > > > - I prefer the smaller font size > > - I prefer the narrower menu, leaving > > a wider main area, and less scrolling > > Yes, this is not nice now. > > > - I prefer having section headings > > - The intra-page section anchors are nice, > > but not at the expense of everything else. > > > > YMMV, but those are my immediate visual responses. And I am > assuming that > > all of that is tunable. > > It is :-) > > > Please compare the two sites, and let me know what > > you think. :-) > > Actually, it's really difficult for me to see which is best, since both > are nice skins and have a very different "taste". Forrest skin is more > "book"-like. > > Forrest is easily skinnable, so you all can decide if you want the > Tigris skin, the Forrest one, a mix of the two or something elso. > For example, look at the Avalon site http://jakarta.apache.org/avalon/ > (link put for easy jumping) as an example of a Forrest skin similar to > the tigris one but not quite. > > Let's see what other think and what they prefer. If you change the page > HTML of the Forrest one, for example, to suit better your taste, and > other agree on it, I would be happy to port it in a skin for you. > > Look for example at the new Krysalis skin example > http://www.krysalis.org/testdir/index.html to see an adaption of the > Forrest skin. > > > > --- Noel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nicola Ken Barozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 18:35 > > To: James Developers List > > Subject: Forrest-made James test site - sneak preview > > > > > > > > As promised, I've set up a Forrestized version of the James website. > > The original XML is not yet 100% validating, so there are still things > > to tweak, but it's basically there. > > > > Enjoy! > > > > http://cvs.apache.org/~nicolaken/james/ > > > > -- > Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - verba volant, scripta manent - > (discussions get forgotten, just code remains) > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
