[Gimp-web] New page layout and new menu

[Carol Spears]

Looks nice to me.  I actually cannot see the difference in the two 
pages.

When I made the original layout, I was unware of the universality of
the information in those how-tos.  The next site should have a shared
how-to section and those documents should be ported to appear there.

Thanks for your work on the site, Raphaël.  I was thinking about making
a web site that featured bins as a reason to use gimp to get some 
developer interest in things here.  This is much nicer.  It is nice to
see a developer interested in having the GIMP on a website.

carol


Raphaël Quinet wrote:

>Hi, gimp-web-ers!
>
>I worked a bit on a new page layout that should be better for
>text-based browsers (bug #120667) and for Netscape 4.x (bug #119759).
>While I was at it, I also changed the structure of the menu a bit.  I
>started with the last proposal from scizzo, but I re-organized the
>menu a bit and introduced some indented elements in the menu like on
>the developers site.
>
>Please have a look at this test page:
>  http://www.gimp.org/~raphael/web-gimp/mmmaybe/newlayout.html
>Compare it with the original version:
>  http://mmmaybe.gimp.org/unix/
>
>The changes include:
>- Support text-based browsers by providing them with a nicer layout
>  for the menu, and the opportunity to skip the menu and jump to the
>  page contents (so that you do not have to go through all the links
>  one by one).  This is based in part on the suggestions from Stefan
>  Huszics in bug #120667.  Take a look at my test page using Lynx,
>  Links or w3m and you will see how it works.
>- Better support for Netscape 4.x.  The pages are still looking bad in
>  this old and broken browser, but at least it should now be possible
>  to navigate the site instead of having the navigation menu hidden
>  under other layers because of the incorrect CSS handling of this old
>  browser.  This should fix bug #119759.
>- A bit of (optional) Dynamic HTML: it is now possible to hide the
>  menu if you want to have more room for the contents of the page.
>  Just click on the little image in the corner of the menu.  This can
>  be useful for those who prefer "vertical" browser windows.
>- Removed "extended.css".  Is this used anywhere?
>- Renamed "default.css" to "wgo.css".  Added "wgo.js".
>- Re-ordered and indented some elements in the menu.  I also changed
>  the links and removed some superfluous "index.html".  Note that the
>  links in my test page point to the wrong site (wilber instead of
>  mmmaybe) so you will not get the expected pages, but hopefully you
>  can figure out how this is supposed to work.
>
>Please try this page using various browsers and various combinations
>of options (with and without CSS, with and without JavaScript, etc.).
>Every time, try to compare it with the original page layout.  I
>already tested it with Mozilla (0.9.9 to 1.4), Galeon, Netscape 4.77,
>lynx, links and w3m.  A colleague of mine tested it with MSIE 6.0.  It
>seems to work in most browsers.
>
>Comments on the menu are also welcome.
>
>I would like to implement this tomorrow (or something similar,
>depending on the feedback I get).  My goal is to have the new site
>ready before Monday, so I will also work on some of the other open
>bugs in the meantime.
>
>-Raphaël
>_______________________________________________
>Gimp-web mailing list
>Gimp-web@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu
>http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web
>
>
>
>  
>