[jox-tech] CSS issues (was: Layout)
- From: Stefan Merten <smerten oekonux.de>
- Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:29:50 +0200
Hi Mathieu and all!
This post contains all the issues which can be solved by tweaking the
CSS. It contains some notes for myself where I record which settings I
need to tweak. I'll formulate questions where I have them.
6 days ago Stefan Merten wrote:
Last week (12 days ago) Mathieu ONeil wrote:
COLOR
Ideally the colors should match the logo, in any case be similar to
First Monday as discussed, ie red and black.
AFAICS colors are quite easy to tweak in the themes. The problem (for
me) is to find a pleasant set of colors, however. Unless we find a
theme with nice pre-packaged colors I see a problem here - and unless
someone else is able to do such a job.
In addition the colors chosen for text and frames need to match the
colors which are used in the various pictures used in the theme. For
instance the green bar in the old theme was a picture. And the black
top in the new one is also a picture. And the colors need to match the
various icons a theme comes with. That's why I say this is really work
for a designer.
If the colors should match the logo we first need an agreed upon logo.
That seems to me a bit down the road, still.
Colors are one of the main CSS issues. Frankly I find the color set of
Mimbo nice. If you want a different color set then please come up with
a suggestion (and frankly don't because given the difficulties with
the easy settings this will be endless...).
-site map, accessibility, contact:
should be smaller, higher and more to the right (like Discover)
I think such tweaks are possible given we have a base theme. Changes
would be needed in the CSS which is feasible.
A CSS issue. I'd need to tweak the settings for `#portal-siteactions`.
However, your comment related not to Mimbo. Is the current placement
more to your liking?
TOOLBAR
We could try having it in a coloured band like FSF (red?) or
without a band like Discover: it is hard for me to decide without
seeing: as I am not as technically able as Stefan I am here relying
on his goodwill to try different combinations...
Also a question for the CSS.
A CSS issue. I'd need to tweak the settings for `#portal-globalnav`.
Currently there is a background color of #777 which is a dark grey.
This is is probably what you meant by the colored band. Would you like
me to change this color? To what?
-Font size
I think the character fonts for the page titles above the dividing
lines (like « Frontpage » or « Research ») are too thick; a finer
font would look better, see
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/30-ways-the-world-could-end
Dito.
Another CSS issue. The font site in the toolbar is set to `bold`. I'd
need to tweak this in `#portal-globalnav` again. However, since this
comment was not for Mimbo: Do you still think it is too bold?
-Dividing line
Like us Discover mag uses a line to separate titles from article
content, black dividing lines, also see:
http://discovermagazine.com/2010/oct/30-ways-the-world-could-end
Their line is thicker, which gives more weight to the structure: I
would be interested to see if this works well for us.
Dito (I think).
Another CSS issue. I'd need to tweak `h1.documentFirstHeading` for
this. Do you still would like to have the line thicker?
Grüße
Stefan