Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Project website design

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/20/2010 01:30 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras<address@hidden>  schrieb:
> > On 04/16/2010 02:42 PM, Volker Grabsch wrote:
> > > Nikos Chantziaras<address@hidden>   schrieb:
> > > > This may be a weird question, but how was the project's homepage
> > > > created?  Is it hand-written HTML or was a design tool used?
> > > > If yes, which?
> > >
> > > It is hand-written HTML, designed to be as simple and readable
> > > as possible in HTML.
> >
> > I hope it's OK if I copy that and use it in the homepage of one of my
> > own projects?
>
> I'm glad you like my style, and I'm happy to see that style
> being adopted by other websites.

It's very clean, neat, easy to read and navigate without bloating it 
with bells&whistles.  Perfect for pages without large amounts of 
content.  I like it :)


> However, I recommend to change the embedded CSS code a lot, such
> that your project homepage gets a unique touch. You should at least
> change all colors (expect for the black text color and the white
> text background, of course). You might also want to change some
> box sizes, spacings and font sizes according to your taste.

I changed a few things, and also got rid of the single-document style. I 
use an shtml file for every section and serve them with SSI (server-side 
includes) which works in every browser since it's done by the web server.

This also allows to get rid of the "margin-bottom: 100%;" setting in 
".section", as well as using "width: 60%;" instead of making the whole 
page fixed-width.

Of course this approach won't work for offline viewing.  SSI means a 
web-server needs to serve the documents.  Just opening them locally in a 
browser won't work.


> BTW, what projects are you talking about? I'm curious to see the
> results.

It's this here:

  http://qtads.sourceforge.net


> Just in case you have an acknowledgement section or similar, you
> should acknowledge the mingw-cross-env project rather than me in
> person, i.e. something like that: "Web design inspired by the
> <a href="http://mingw-cross-env.nongnu.org/";>mingw-cross-env website</a>"
> But this is no requirement, of course. Feel free to reuse the
> HTML code without such a notice.

I've put an entry there, pointing to mingw-cross-env.  I'm always happy 
to give credit where credit is due :)


> I'd also like to link back to your project site if it is somehow
> connected to mingw-cross-env. For instance, if you create the
> win32 version of that project using mingw-cross-env, I'd be happy
> to get a quick note.

That project is pretty much the reason I installed mingw-cross-dev, but 
unfortunately the application does not work when built with it:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/mingw-cross-env-list/2010-04/msg00076.html

So, nope.  No quick note, at least for now :P