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Re: new front page, take 2.5



On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:23:44PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Have you thought about dropping the cyan backgrond box with the round
> corners?

Expect a few more pages to look at, soon. :)

> As it is it's boxes inside the cyan box all inside my mozilla
> window, which is really a bit complicated when you think about it.

You shouldn't be thinking about it... this is a design failure actually :)

> And IMHO the color clashes with the rest of the colors on the page (I
> think the same thing about the existing cyan box on the current debian web
> page.)

Noted... I almost agree.

> Hmm, here's a layout idea. What if you took the quick links, news, and
> help debian, and arranged them like this:
> 
> Quick Links          News
> ------------------   ---------------------------------------------------
> ------------------   ---------------------------------------------------
> ------------------
> ------------------   Help Debian
> ------------------   ---------------------------------------------------
> ------------------   ---------------------------------------------------

When spread out into a single column, the links are waaay too long to do
this nicely, without leaving a load of empty space between News and Help.

> I think you should make the layout and format of the dates in the news
> and upgrade sections more homogenoius.

I agree, I'll change both of them to use the non-fixed-width variant.
The date will be right-aligned and top-valigned, too.

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