[thesite] feo update

aardvark roselli at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 24 13:50:46 CDT 2001


> From: "Warden, Matt" <mwarden at mattwarden.com>
> 
> >This is the state of play so far. I've dumped all of the styles from
> >isacc.css that are different into a style tag at the top of this page
> >to show whats ones would requiring changing for the feo look.
> 
> I think Adrian will smack you in the face for those custom styles.
> 
> Especially considering those attributes will eventually be
> customizable by users. Kinda funny to customize a style that is only
> used on feo.

areed, although i won't smack anyone, since this is just a 
prototype...

> >I've had to create two new styles for the alternating background.
> 
> Drop the alternating background. It's hardly noticeable on my crappy
> laptop monitor anyway.

i kinda like it, but just be aware that it's a departure from the 
general style of all the sites... i'm not qualifying that as good or 
bad, just as a fact...

> >I've also tinkered with the html itself, this is commented where it's
> >happened (think the only bits are the width of the content cell and
> >there's a tr after the title that I've commented out). Didn't know
> >how kosher that was *:)
> 
> I think that's ok. The HTML and page layout don't need to be 100% the
> same.

well, they need to be the same insofar as they can take styles the 
same, and that they degrade/validate/etc. the same...

otherwise, killing a width attribute shouldn't be a big deal, but i 
can't foresee all the ramifications yet...

> >So, there you go. I guess I need to know where we go from here?
> 
> Finish anything that needs finished, whack that alternating
> background, and then let me loose on it so I can demonstrate my CF
> skillz.

more meat recipes, too...





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