Hi Paul,

This update of the website has mainly been new design and structure of the site. We are also doing some changes to the community section, all of which are not published yet:

New bug system with filtering
New documentation, both menu and structure (Will continue to update this the next weeks)
Cathegories in contributions (not out yet).
Pluss other minor changes.

We do also have other ideas, like blogs, event calender etc, and also have the other suggestions from the forums and from the summer conference. But we will not get time to do very may of these in this round, as we will prioritise these resources to eZ publish 3.4 development for now

But we would like all ideas to how we can improve to community section on our website. Please post your inputs ind ideas in this forum as we do see you

Sounds good. Did the 'literal' tag go in for the forums?

Im hoping all suggestions so far can be digested, categorised, even some acted upon, in time for the next conference. It would be a shame to repeat everything again.

Am looking forward to the promised discussion for 3.4

paul

Modified on Friday 23 January 2004 4:34:01 pm by Paul Forsyth

<b>I</b> just did an <i>upgrade</i>. You can now use the following in the forum replies:

code: pre text code
b: bold text
i:italic text

I also disabled the smilies ( at least for now ), since they mess things up

--bård

Modified on Friday 23 January 2004 4:23:14 pm by Bård Farstad

Hehe, nice. Any chance of increasing the point size of text in a literal or code tag? Appears tiny on my monitor.

Paul

That's great Bård! This will make a world of difference.

Alex

Hi Bard,

I like the new design very much!

But I have an additional suggestion: Please increase the font size of the normal text! (of e.g. <p>-tags) (The font size in the bug report section at http://ez.no/community/bug_reports is perfect!)

At the moment (and before) it's hard to read text on ez.no.

Thanx in advance.

Kind regards,
Emil.

PS.: If you want to enable smileys again, take a look at my worttoimage-operator which I posted at the contribution-section.

Emil,

Which browser/version/os do you use? For me with Mozilla-Firebird 0.7 on Linux the text size of forum messages and bug reports is the same.

I think the pre tag % size is suffering from a % within a % problem.

paul

We've done some updates to the font sizes now. Please see if they are better now.

Emil; I've looked at your wordtoimage operator, nice. We will probably add it later, but as I understood the code tag was more important.

-bård

Hmm, The font sizes are a little mixed up now. Most headings are too big. And the font for entering this text is too small.

paul

-> Bard:

the font-size of the "<p>"-Tag is better. (But I would prefer it, if it's bit bigger)

-> The font size of a text-area is too small (was better before)

-> some css settings seems to be broken,

in your post

"Bård Farstad
eZ systems crew

Friday 23 January 2004 4:22:42 pm
"

the text " also disabled the smilies ( at least for now ), since they mess things up

--bård

appears bigger than the other text.

Kind regards,
Emil.

I agree with Paul that the text in the form fields (specifically textareas) is uncomfortably small to look at. I would highly recommend that you consider abandoning the use of percentage-based font sizes in your CSS as they cause many unintended issues such as this. Specifying the sizes relatively is a great thing, but I think you might be better served by using different values like:
xx-small
x-small
small
medium
large
x-large
xx-large

While avoiding 'larger' and 'smaller' and em variants. Following this methodology will provide you some granularity of control while avoiding the odd compounding of percentages (60% of 70% of 95%). It also ensures everyone can resize the text to sizes they find convenient unlike pixel-based values.

Hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes here.

Alex

Hi,

I'm agree with you, we were using a system like this before changing for EZP, you hardly will use more than a few font sizes in your web site, we used to have:
tiny
small
medium
large
x-large

Every one can then tune this classes as needed

The percentage is super-flexible, but I think this approach is more user friendly and should solve the 99% percent of the cases

In fact our web designer complains with the percentage approach, because it is more difficult to figure out at first

Modified on Friday 23 January 2004 9:13:35 pm by Lazaro Ferreira

Yes, using these values for the font-size are very helpful, though as far as I am aware, 'tiny' is not one of the acceptable values for font-size. Have you been able to use it, or do you have a class set up called 'tiny'?

Alex

Hi,

I can asure you (I'm not the Web Designer, here) but I think this are CSS classes

Are the template files for this new site design available anywhere?