[Imc-web] website improvements:

[Danielle Chynoweth]

The problem Ben describes isn't what I am seeing.  I have attached a 
screen shot from Safari to demonstrate: notice the lines which don't line 
up and the text which is cut off unless IU have my browser at 1000+ pix 
wide.

- d

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, benjamin grosser wrote:

> 
> 
> I'd be happy to figure out the code to swap out banners randomly.
> 
> > > 1) The line to the right of the logo does not line up with the line to the
> > > right of the search and below.
> > 
> > yeah, i haven't been able to figure out why that happens yet -- anyone
> > have ideas?
> 
> As for firebird, I've attached another screenshot.  The vertical lineup is 
> now right, but the logo width isn't working quite right yet...The menu 
> width is definitely narrower in firebird than IE.  I would probably 
> suspect a conflict between stylesheet and html like we had before.  Maybe 
> they both specify the width?
> 
> 
> > > 2) A bigger problem: On the story pages, the text seems fixed at 1000
> > > pixels wide or so such that if you have a small screen you are forced to
> > > scroll horizontally.  Can't we make it such that the story fits within the
> > > browser window width - at least for any browser over 7-- pix wide?
> > 
> > whoa.  this doesn't happen in IE -- can someone confirm that this is
> > happening on mozilla (and others).  anyone have ideas why this might be
> > happening?
> 
> Yeah, I see this about once every few loads in firebird (at least I think 
> we're talking about the same problem).  The symptom for me is that the 
> newswire's left edge ends up starting to the right of the top banner's
> right edge...it just will not move left so its underneath it no matter
> how you resize the browser.  A reload usually fixes it.  
> 
> This could be a firebird issue, but if Danielle's is seeing it in Safari
> as well, then I'd suspect another CSS issue.  Next time I see it I'll 
> send you a screenshot.
> 
> And now I'm getting really picky.  There appears to be a stroke already 
> applied to the left edge of the table cell that the banner resides in (or
> in the right edge of the logo cell).  I setup the banner so that it would
> have a 1-pixel border that separated it from the logo (just as the left-
> edge menu does).  Can you poke around and see if that got specified
> somewhere?
> 
> ben
> 
> 
>   benjamin grosser | director | imaging technology group | beckman institute
>    grosser at uiuc.edu | 217.244.5669 | 217.244.6219 (fax) | www.itg.uiuc.edu
> 
> 
> On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> > 
> > > The light colored banner looks so much better!  On Safari the banner is no
> > > longer stretched on secondary pages.  There are a few problems though:
> > >
> > > 1) The line to the right of the logo does not line up with the line to the
> > > right of the search and below.
> > 
> > yeah, i haven't been able to figure out why that happens yet -- anyone
> > have ideas?
> > 
> > 
> > --sascha
> > 
> > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> > >
> > > > ben already sent me one.  it should be live on the site.  if either of you
> > > > could take a look at the site (espeically with firebird) and send me
> > > > feedback, that would be really helpful.
> > > >
> > > > --sascha
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > > if someone could remake the logo such that it had a grey background (like
> > > > > > > most of the leftbar), that would be peachy.
> > > > >
> > > > > > Danielle should probably regenerate it from the original illustrator
> > > > > > sometime ... it would be clearer.  Or send it to me and I can do it.
> > > > >
> > > > > http://che.ojctech.com/~chyn/public/IMC/
> > > > > It's called IMClogo.eps.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am swamped or else I would do it.
> > > > >
> > > > > thanks,
> > > > > d
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
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| Danielle Chynoweth
|
| Art Director * OJC Technologies * ojctech.com
| City Council Member * Urbana City Council * city.urbana.il.us
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