(day two) - your opinion on the new design needed

[Douglas J Hunley]

The new "snapshot" of the developing site redesign is up. The following 
concerns have been addresses:
1. the javascript windows resize is gone. It wasn't intended to be a part of 
the site. I was using it to help me gauge window sizes, table alignments, and 
font spacing.
2. the frame borders are invisible. they were only visible to illustrate the 
layout to Net Llama. I didn't know he was going to tell everyone about the 
url ;)
3. the middle frame has been absorbed into another frame much like the 
current site. I never cared for having it seperate. I just made it that way 
so that I could keep track of the many required elements.
4. the "2 words per row" between the two tables has been fixed. however, this 
means that the minimum browser window size is slightly larger (if you don't 
want to have to scroll the site)

Frames are still there. I don't care for them that much either, but the main 
focus for right now is the design itself. How we do the layout can be worked 
out after we have a "final" design.

NOTE: The images on the site with the penguin are temporary. But the general 
look is probably going to stay. (beach, books, some kind of beverage) I've 
asked Burns to generate some new Dr Tux images whenever he gets some time.

There's still a ton of 404 errors. It is intentional. There is no sense in 
copying all that content around when the focus right now is the "face" of the 
site.

There is nothing I can do about the white on white in the store. I've sent a 
request up to the site admin (the store is one of those co-partner things). 
The jury is still out on whether the final site will have a store or not. 
Opinions?

You'll also note the opinions link. This will take you to a beta site of a 
concept that we are kicking around. Essentially, what we were hoping to 
achieve was a place where you (the user) can go to look up reviews (written 
by your peers in the community) of different hardware or software or distros. 
think epinions.com meets the linux hardware compatibility list meets the 
steps. The site will also have relevant links to SxS content. For example, 
you go to the opinion site and lookup cd-r drives. It will present you with a 
link to the relevant SxS material on cd-r drives, and will also show what 
cd-r drives have been reviewed by the community. the reviews will tell the 
make and model, the success, what kernel, what distro, overall rating of the 
drive, etc. That way you can see "oh look. lite-on drives work well with 
linux. acer ones dont. guess I wont be buying that acer drive at best buy 
after all". There are very few reports in the system right now. If you get a 
chance, create a login and start generating reports. Try to break it. Then 
send me whatever errors messages/issues/ideas/etc you encounter.

The url is still http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/

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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
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