Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-04-01 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. I don't see why not, especially as the current site has two slightly different skins. You

Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the current one on the site)? Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Black Box:

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:19:53 -0400 Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the current one on the site)? I like the third option - it's very clean,

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Rex, Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. This

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
: Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:19:53 AM Subject: Templates for the new website Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:15 -0300 John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, why do web-designers insist on wanting my browser to show text smaller than the one I configured? Most, if not all of these templates find it necessary to define the body text as 65-80% of the defined font size (in

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex,

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. It's also hard for us old

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. pavel

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. For the new official website it's we'll continue improving the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. I agree. Because of the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that users can choose their own skin by simply appending ?skin=... to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. However, in practie we'll

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Joost Verburg wrote: As I understand it, the consensus is that the current design is much better than before and that we will continue to improve it if we receive more feedback / suggestions. Is that right Rex / Andrei? That would be fine with me! Rex

Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the current one on the site)? Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Black Box:

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:19:53 -0400 Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the current one on the site)? I like the third option - it's very clean,

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Rex, Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. This

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
: Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:19:53 AM Subject: Templates for the new website Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:15 -0300 John Coppens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, why do web-designers insist on wanting my browser to show text smaller than the one I configured? Most, if not all of these templates find it necessary to define the body text as 65-80% of the defined font size (in

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex,

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. It's also hard for us old

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. pavel

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. For the new official website it's we'll continue improving the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. I agree. Because of the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that users can choose their own skin by simply appending ?skin=... to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. However, in practie we'll

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Joost Verburg wrote: As I understand it, the consensus is that the current design is much better than before and that we will continue to improve it if we receive more feedback / suggestions. Is that right Rex / Andrei? That would be fine with me! Rex

Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the current one on the site)? Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Black Box:

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:19:53 -0400 "Rex C. Eastbourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities > for the new website. What do you guys like most out of these (and the > current one on the site)? I like the third option - it's very

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Rex, Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. This

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread curtis osterhoudt
From: Rex C. Eastbourne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:19:53 AM Subject: Templates for the new website Thanks for the feedback on the site, everyone! Here are some templates our designer Andrei picked out as possibilities for the new webs

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread John Coppens
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:00:15 -0300 John Coppens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, why do web-designers insist on wanting my browser to show text > smaller than the one I configured? Most, if not all of these templates > find it necessary to define the body text as 65-80% of the defined font >

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think the current template looks really good. Rex,

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Rich Shepard wrote: Bright Pixel: http://www.oswd.org/design/preview/id/3021 Very difficult to read because there's not sufficient contrast between the background and the text. It may be OK for 20-something-year-old eyes, but not for us old curmudgeons. It's also hard for us old

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Thanks for your input, everyone. On second thought, it might be best to just stick with the template we have now, since Joost and Christian have put a lot of work into getting it to work right. I think

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Pavel Sanda
> About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please > note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion > on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. pavel

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. For the new official website it's we'll continue improving the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
Pavel Sanda wrote: About skins, I'd love a new skin for wiki.lyx.org (hint, hint), but please note that it should _not_ be the same as for www.lyx.org. (See discussion on the devel list). please at least for the wiki part use template which use full screen width. I agree. Because of the

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote: PS. Seriously, I would like to try and install Andrei's work. Andrei, you can contact me off-list so we can work out details. These are just a few example of open-source templates, it's not new work. I know. I mean that if Andrei wants to create

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Joost Verburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that users can choose their own skin by simply appending ?skin=... to the URI. We do not need to restrict ourselve to one skin only. We really should not have multiple designs for our web site. One official skin is enough. However, in practie we'll

Re: Templates for the new website

2008-03-31 Thread Rex C. Eastbourne
Joost Verburg wrote: As I understand it, the consensus is that the current design is much better than before and that we will continue to improve it if we receive more feedback / suggestions. Is that right Rex / Andrei? That would be fine with me! Rex