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IJ_siteschemes is where everyone involved in designing site schemes for IJ can exchange notes, documents and ideas. Membership is currently moderated, so please leave a comment for branchandroot if you'd like to join in.

September 2015
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Worksafe colorscheme up

Okay, the neutral-colors version of the scheme is up. Everyone go take a look and tell me what you think; especially let me know if anything seems to be hard to read or not working or any such. (Ignore the .html files, they're obsolete, and click on the .shtml)

If no one has any more bug reports, I think I'm about ready to package all this up and pass it over to Squeaky for coding, and then we'll go live for beta testing!

One thing: does anyone have, or think they can produce, a good version of Tweak as a transparent gif? Alas, there are still enough IE5 users that a png transparency won't do. Shame, they're much better quality. My various efforts in Photoshop have run aground on the basic fact that gifs binary little buggers. My best version so far is still a bit rough at the edge.

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*makes notes* I have been planning on doing a plain-text version; I'll roll my first go at that up with this idea. I /think/ I know how to do those old-style horizontal dropdowns with css; I'll experiment with it and see what I can come up with.

*grins* And yes, the three menus are redundant in places. That was on purpose. I believe in giving people as many variations as possible on how to get to important or high-traffic parts of the site.

I don't know what the default will turn out to be. I believe Squeaky plans to put up a poll for all users, once they've both gone live and people have had a chance to look at them.

Looking forward to seeing the plain-text version!

Is it not taxing for the site to have this many siteschemes in use? I'm surprised at how many there already are (especially because a handfull of them really seem different only in the css).

Well, that's the trick, really, to only have the css be different. If it's all on one code-base, then there's only one additional function call that needs to be made: to the stylesheet. And that's pretty light-weight. As long as the basic template is designed to accommodate a growing list of possible sheets, we can keep adding new css-based schemes until the cows come home.