[IMC-US-tech] Re: [IMC-US] Site Design

max msussman at umich.edu
Thu Oct 2 08:35:16 CDT 2003


I like DC and also certain parts of http://barcelona.indymedia.org , 
they've really removed a lot of the blockiness.
css can do amazing things.

max

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 09:28 AM, ski at indymedia.org wrote:

>> Does anyone know specifically how dada restricts the design?
>>
>> Check out the list of dada sites http://dadaimc.org/.
>
> I wouldn't say it restricts the design. I would say it makes it ugly by
> default. The list of IMCs using dada on their website is really out of
> date. A couple of dada sites that I think look good are:
>   http://dc.indymedia.org/
>   http://sonora.indymedia.org/
>
> Dada also has a lot of features that SF-active doesn't - md5sum'ing of
> passwords, media uploads, etc. etc. However on the negative side is 
> dada's
> ugly-by-default-ness and the fact that it hits the DB really hard.
>
> I see what you mean about the "blockiness", but this is something we 
> can
> avoid with a little CSS hacking.
>
> SF-Active, Mir, and Dada are all acceptable solutions to me. I just 
> happen
> to prefer dada...
>
> Peace,
> Brian Szymanski
> ski at indymedia.org
> bks10 at cornell.edu
>
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