[OSM-talk] Front page design

[Graham Wall]

The "next event" could be static, but the page regenerated each night.

On 22/09/06, Andy Robinson <Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> If the look of the page is nearing completion we should turn our focus to
> the actual words. Foundation officers and others, can we get some feedback
> on the words used. Are they all appropriate or should any be
> changed/deleted. Do we need to have ltd referenced somewhere or is the link
> to the Foundation page sufficient? Seem to recall there are some
> requirements for displaying registered identity somewhere.
>
> SteveC is indicating that the page would not show login. That would only
> occur when moving to edit the map or the wiki. It removes that script
> requirement from the front page.
>
> Removing the need for any scripting at all on this front page would be even
> better so that we have reduced the likelihood of the page being taken down
> due to hit volume but that would mean loosing the "next event" bit at the
> bottom?.
>
> I think if we can get these final issues cleared today there is little
> reason not to turn this live as soon as SteveC is able.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
> Andy Robinson
> Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
> >bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Tom Higgy
> >Sent: 22 September 2006 12:28 AM
> >To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Front page design
> >
> >Christoph Eckert wrote:
> >>> Works best in Firefox at the moment. Doesn't look too bad in IE but
> >>> I'll use background images to do the rounded corners, I think.
> >>
> >>
> >> looks pleasant, even in Safari. Konqueror/KDE 3.4 has some problems,
> >> though the rendering engine is the same as in Safari:
> >> http://christeck.de/stuff/OSMindex.png
> >>
> >>
> >> ce
> >
> >Cool, cheers.
> >
> >Could you check again in Konquerer? I've added an explicit height so
> >(hopefully) it'll fix the footer coming too high up.
> >
> >Just a few slight modifications as suggested by Richard, mainly
> >lightening the boxes and changing the font (I have a habit of using
> >tahoma :) and the suggestions from Wollschaf. I don't actually like the
> >centered text box but I'll see what other people think.
> >
> >http://higgy.bandnet.org/openstreetmap/draft-index2.html
> >
> >I need to improve on the link colours and having now lightened the
> >backgrounds of the boxes the white text is harder to read.
> >
> >Also increasing text sizes overflows in the boxes at the moment causing
> >a mess. I'll hide that for now but I'll seek a better solution before I
> >give up on it.
> >
> >cheers,
> >
> >Tom.
> >
> >- www.bandnet.org
> >
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