On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:02 AM, Felix Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ondrey, hi Aaron, hi List,
>
> On 10/18/2010 03:36 AM, Aaron S. Meurer wrote:
>>
>> On Oct 17, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Ondrej Certik wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Felix!
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Felix Kaiser<[email protected]>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> the new design is great, I really like it.
>>>>
>>>> Heres a few suggestions / things I noticed:
>>>>
>>>> - The border between the content and the sidebar is too big.
>>>> - The Sympy logo should be visible on every page, not only in the
>>>> content
>>>> area of the main page.
>>>> - A lot of vertical space is wasted for the "Sympy" headline. Not sure
>>>> how
>>>> to fix that.
>>>>
>>
>> Maybe make it inline with the tabs.  So just have the SymPy logo, "SymPy,"
>> then all the tabs at the very top of the page.
>>
>
> I agree, that might work.
>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> - The background colors of the navbar, the copyright block and the
>>>> sidebar
>>>> headlines should match.
>>>> - The bottom side of the navbar looks awful. I think the "tab look" only
>>>> works if theres no border between the tabs and the content.
>>>> - The buttons in the navbar could use a hover effect.
>>>>
>>
>> What would they do?  I am a little hesitant about webpages that require
>> hover effects to get to content because I know from experience on my iPod
>> touch that such things are not very easy to navigate with a touch screen.
>>  Actually, they are hard to navigate with a mouse too. If you have a
>> hover-over menu, it requires you to keep your mouse over the menu all the
>> way down to what you want, which is annoying.
>>
>
> The hover effect wouldn't change the position at all, just the background
> color. Like this:
>
> http://night.fxkr.net/upload/sympy-hover.html
>
> I dislike those hover menus you described too.

I like this, so I pushed your patch in.

>>
>>
>>>>
>>>> - The quick links need a seperator in between.
>>>>
>>
>> I already mentioned to Ondrej how the quick links appear all on one
>> paragraph to me (in Safari 5 in Snow Leopard).
>>
>
> Same here, Chrome on Debian/testing.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks so much for the feedback. Yes, I totally agree. Do you know how
>>> to fix those in the html code?
>
> Yes, I'll look into it.
>>>
>>> I just use some page template made by
>>> someone else, but I don't know how to fix any of those easily.
>>>
>>> If anyone could help with this, it'd be great. I think that we are very
>>> close.
>>>
>>> Ondrej
>>>
>>
>> How separate is the content from the design?
>> Can you easily switch to other themes to see how they look?  Also, I think
>> it's probably css, not html (but the same applies).
>>
>
> As far as I see that (allowing the user to change the CSS at runtime) should
> be possible with relatively little work
>>
>> Aaron Meurer
>>
>>
>
> @github (see other email): If you want you can add my github user, "fxkr",
> to that organization.

I put you in.

>
> Oh and something else: I think we really shouldn't be checking in the
> compiled .html files (those outside of the templates/ directory).

Yes --- how can we do that, so that we can still keep the repo at github?

Ondrej

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