RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Pedro Barreto
At 22:36 29-11-2000 +0100, you wrote: >Hello Pedro, Mike > > I like the idea about separation data and style, but why XML? why use xml > > when the final client (browser) will see html, and besides, editing a > how-to > > in xml?!?! we'd had to have either a standart for ourselves and an editor,

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello Pedro, Mike > I like the idea about separation data and style, but why XML? why use xml > when the final client (browser) will see html, and besides, editing a how-to > in xml?!?! we'd had to have either a standart for ourselves and an editor, > or edit the text trought the xml tags. > >

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 08:53 PM 11/29/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wolzak) wrote: >Hello, i agree with the group that said, the pages should be as >simple to load as possible. With a lot of advanced features, you >have completely different views with a IE or Netscape or Opera >I for example do use lynx only occa

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread PBarreto
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 7:53 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry > > > Hello, i agree with the group that said, the pages should be as >

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello, i agree with the group that said, the pages should be as simple to load as possible. With a lot of advanced features, you have completely different views with a IE or Netscape or Opera I for example do use lynx only occasional but stylesheet, javascript and so on are always switched off.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread David Douthitt
On 29 Nov 2000, at 3:05, Pedro Barreto wrote: > but... come on... do you really use lynx that once in a while?? Used it last week > I don't know about you but I [haven't used] lynx for more than 2 years, > there is always a better browser next pc ;) As I said, I used Lynx just last week.

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 03:32 PM 11/29/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >snip > > Ok, I thought this is why we were submitting multiple home > > pages. Different people have different ideas on page design. I > > thought we were going to leave it up to the leaf community to decide > > which one was be

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 03:27 PM 11/29/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >css is some sort of extention to html. html tags are somehow limited, so >what you do is define a css style and aplly it to the html tag, since css >has plenty properties to modify html tags that arent present on the html >ta

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Rick Onanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was going to help you with your site, but rick started doing one! now I > can't help both! :) I'm about satisfied with mine as a style demonstration. I might try a couple other ideas I had, but I won't need much help (unless you want to do that background... :-) > >

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread PBarreto
> At 06:47 AM 11/29/00 -0800, Mike Noyes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At 02:16 PM 11/29/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>for reference check my site, http://pxb.ods.org, it's in > Portuguese, but > >>comment the style(aside for frames!), if it is down, it's > the stupi

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread PBarreto
snip > Ok, I thought this is why we were submitting multiple home > pages. Different > people have different ideas on page design. I thought we were > going to > leave it up to the leaf community to decide which one was best. I was going to help you with your site, but rick started doing one!

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 06:47 AM 11/29/00 -0800, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 02:16 PM 11/29/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>for reference check my site, http://pxb.ods.org, it's in Portuguese, but >>comment the style(aside for frames!), if it is down, it's the stupid IIS >>that can

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread PBarreto
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > no, please! don't say that! my only consern was not 'visual > design', but > > funcional design, I'll try to explain: sometimes, when you > design a page, > > tables don't align with each other, paragraphs are not > indented, etc.. and > > thats when css has to be

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 02:16 PM 11/29/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >for reference check my site, http://pxb.ods.org, it's in Portuguese, but >comment the style(aside for frames!), if it is down, it's the stupid IIS >that can't serve for more than 1 day! I burned my redhat server's power >supp

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Rick Onanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > no, please! don't say that! my only consern was not 'visual design', but > funcional design, I'll try to explain: sometimes, when you design a page, > tables don't align with each other, paragraphs are not indented, etc.. and > thats when css has to be used. thats the ki

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Mike Noyes
At 08:39 AM 11/29/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pedro Barreto wrote: > > great! the simpler the better, that's what I was talking about. > > > > but... come on... do you really use lynx that once in a while?? I > > don't know about you but I don't use lynx for more than 2 year

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread PBarreto
> From: Rick Onanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Pedro Barreto wrote: > > great! the simpler the better, that's what I was talking about. > > > > but... come on... do you really use lynx that once in a > while?? I don't > > know about you but I don't use lynx for more than 2 years, > there is

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-29 Thread Rick Onanian
Pedro Barreto wrote: > great! the simpler the better, that's what I was talking about. > > but... come on... do you really use lynx that once in a while?? I don't > know about you but I don't use lynx for more than 2 years, there is always > a better browser next pc ;) I had used lynx about 35 m

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-28 Thread Pedro Barreto
At 10:35 28-11-2000 -0600, you wrote: >On 24 Nov 2000, at 21:56, Pedro Barreto wrote: > > > no really, I was talking about tables, div's, span's, css, a > > single css file, etc.. > >Can we keep the web page Lynx-friendly? There are many who depend on >programs like Lynx (especially the blind).

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-28 Thread Mike Noyes
At 11:34 AM 11/28/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >David Douthitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > no really, I was talking about tables, div's, span's, css, a > > > single css file, etc.. > > > > Can we keep the web page Lynx-friendly? There are many who depend on > > programs

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-28 Thread Rick Onanian
David Douthitt wrote: > > no really, I was talking about tables, div's, span's, css, a > > single css file, etc.. > > Can we keep the web page Lynx-friendly? There are many who depend on > programs like Lynx (especially the blind). Lynx is also present in > almost every Linux installation - and

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-28 Thread David Douthitt
On 24 Nov 2000, at 21:56, Pedro Barreto wrote: > no really, I was talking about tables, div's, span's, css, a > single css file, etc.. Can we keep the web page Lynx-friendly? There are many who depend on programs like Lynx (especially the blind). Lynx is also present in almost every Linux i

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Noyes
At 06:12 PM 11/27/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Rick Onanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Mike Noyes wrote: > > > I was talking about white space in the html code. Not the > > page itself. I > > > still like my entry, but the code needs to be cleaned up (e.g. add > > > comm

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread PBarreto
Rick Onanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Mike Noyes wrote: > > I was talking about white space in the html code. Not the > page itself. I > > still like my entry, but the code needs to be cleaned up (e.g. add > > comments, fix indents etc.). > > Doh! > > Hell, I can't say as I've ever seen whi

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > I was talking about white space in the html code. Not the page itself. I > still like my entry, but the code needs to be cleaned up (e.g. add > comments, fix indents etc.). Doh! Hell, I can't say as I've ever seen whitespace so excessive that it bothered me, in HTML code...

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread Mike Noyes
At 09:12 AM 11/27/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Noyes wrote: > > White space is good. I'll use your suggestions to clean my entry up. > >White space is good, like everything else, in moderation and >used correctly. In the example Pedro showed us, I believe that >whitespac

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > White space is good. I'll use your suggestions to clean my entry up. I White space is good, like everything else, in moderation and used correctly. In the example Pedro showed us, I believe that whitespace was used incorrectly, probably because the were too lazy to make it wor

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-27 Thread Rick Onanian
Pedro Barreto wrote: > do you like this site style? > http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/p/doc.asp?id=29&iface=2 Only thing I don't like is how the text is pushed over to the side. I know it's a result of having the links down the left; but I can only imagine that this page must be difficult to read in

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-24 Thread Mike Noyes
At 09:56 PM 11/24/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 12:08 24-11-2000 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: >>At 01:11 AM 11/24/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>do you like this site style? >>>http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/p/doc.asp?id=29&iface=2 >>> >>>that's the kind o

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-24 Thread Pedro Barreto
At 12:08 24-11-2000 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote: >At 01:11 AM 11/24/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>do you like this site style? >>http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/p/doc.asp?id=29&iface=2 >> >>that's the kind of style I like in information related sites, simples, >>easy to read and q

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-24 Thread Mike Noyes
At 01:11 AM 11/24/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >do you like this site style? >http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/p/doc.asp?id=29&iface=2 > >that's the kind of style I like in information related sites, simples, >easy to read and quick. > >also very easy to build and maintain :) >I

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-23 Thread Pedro Barreto
do you like this site style? http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/p/doc.asp?id=29&iface=2 that's the kind of style I like in information related sites, simples, easy to read and quick. also very easy to build and maintain :) I belive that we should adopt some kind of basic style, what ever it looks li

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Noyes
At 10:13 AM 11/22/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Noyes wrote: > > >but I have no idea what to put for content - the content > > >you've got at your example site looks about perfect, and > > >is formatted about perfectly too...so how do I compete? > > >Change the background

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-22 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > >but I have no idea what to put for content - the content > >you've got at your example site looks about perfect, and > >is formatted about perfectly too...so how do I compete? > >Change the background color and logo that's used? ;) > > I thought we were looking at design conc

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Noyes
At 09:41 AM 11/22/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Noyes wrote: > > At 08:45 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > We now have a very simple home page available. Should I separate > > the logo submissions by author? > >You already did. Looks good.

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-22 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > At 08:45 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We now have a very simple home page available. Should I separate the logo > submissions by author? You already did. Looks good. I'm going to attempt to create at http://www.c0wz.com/leaf/ but I have no idea

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-22 Thread Mike Noyes
At 08:45 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If there are no objections, I'll publish an "under construction" page with >links to the logo and web page entries today. We now have a very simple home page available. Should I separate the logo submissions by author? http://

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
> At 11:14 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > submission ready for viewing? I really want to put > something on our > > > site, other than: > > > > > > We're Sorry but this Project hasn't yet uploaded their personal > > > webpage yet. Please c

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
> At 11:14 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > submission ready for viewing? I really want to put > something on our > > > site, other than: > > > > > > We're Sorry but this Project hasn't yet uploaded their personal > > > webpage yet. Please c

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 11:14 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Noyes wrote: > > submission ready for viewing? I really want to put something on our > > site, other than: > > > > We're Sorry but this Project hasn't yet uploaded their personal > > webpage yet. Please check back soon for u

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 04:24 PM 11/21/00 +, you wrote: > > From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:03 PM > > > > At 10:32 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the s

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > Ok, that brings up the next question. Does anyone else have a home page Mike, I think you're the only one doing anything on it, here. :-/ I can't even imagine a concept that I like better than what you've done, which is why I've not bothered. I'm sure everybody else has their

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
> From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 4:03 PM > > At 10:32 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike Noyes wrote: > > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the submitted > > > logos, or should we wait until after

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 10:32 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mike Noyes wrote: > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the submitted > > logos, or should we wait until after the holiday? > >I think it should be part of the vote for the winning page; when >we decide that, we c

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Onanian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 3:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry > > > Mike Noyes wrote: > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Rick Onanian
Mike Noyes wrote: > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the submitted logos, or > should we wait until after the holiday? I think it should be part of the vote for the winning page; when we decide that, we can either decide to keep whatever logo is in use on the sample page, or vote

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
> -Original Message- > From: Mike Noyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 3:24 PM > > > At 03:11 PM 11/21/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[snip] > > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the > > > submitted logos, or > > >

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 03:11 PM 11/21/00 +, Pedro Barreto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[snip] > > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the > > submitted logos, or > > should we wait until after the holiday? > >I haven't got the time to work on my other logos. Pedro, That's alright, I haven't had time

RE: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread PBarreto
[snip] > BTW, do you think it's time to call for a vote on the > submitted logos, or > should we wait until after the holiday? I haven't got the time to work on my other logos. what holiday are you speaking about? pedro > > -- > Mike Noyes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://sourceforge.net/projec

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Mike Noyes
At 08:44 AM 11/21/00 -0500, Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Boy, was I out of it yesterday...I hadn't the attention span to >deal with a single message all day. I hope you're feeling better today. >Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Everyone, > > I just updated my home page entr

Re: [Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-21 Thread Rick Onanian
Boy, was I out of it yesterday...I hadn't the attention span to deal with a single message all day. Mike Noyes wrote: > Everyone, > I just updated my home page entry to include individual developer pages. > Is this idea any good? I think so; but it would take a while to get used to before anyb

[Leaf-devel] Home Page entry

2000-11-20 Thread Mike Noyes
Everyone, I just updated my home page entry to include individual developer pages. The developers would create sub directories with their SF unix user name, and place their personal pages there. They could also create personal directories in the anonymous ftp area for releasing contributions th