Branch ([info]branchandroot) wrote in [info]ij_siteschemes,
@ 2008-01-06 13:26:00

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To Do and more calls for volunteers
All right, the materials have been sent off to Squeaky to be encoded as a template, and the next thing up will be beta-testing.

Next up on my design list are: plain text version and gray-and-orange version for those who want the new menus but like the current colors. After that, I think, are the rainbow versions that [info]blasphemy_blue came up with.

At this point, there are also a number of infrastructure things that need to be done, and I'd love help with these.

Some FAQs need to be written, to help users customize their site schemes. One of these needs to include directions on how to find/use browser styles in as many different browsers as we can possibly manage. Any volunteers for this would be much appreciated.

As I have never used Stylish, I'd also appreciate it if someone who has could write up something about using that to manipulate a layout.

One of the things I'd like to have available somewhere, perhaps on this asylum, is a collection of ready-made styles and of little style-parts to do things like change the color of the menus and what side of the screen things are on. Most of this will have to wait until the code is finalized, but if people could be thinking about it and maybe jotting down things to contribute, that would be great. Once we have a finalized code, membership will be opened up so anyone can add their design work.

My own rate of progress is about to slow down as I have to start writing lectures again instead of only working on design; I expect that's true for a lot of other people too. But I'm hoping we can still make steady progress.



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[info]branchandroot
2008-01-06 07:09 pm UTC (link)
*claps hands* That would be excellent!

When we're sure about the code, I'm definitely going to have to write up a guide to the css.

And yes, that was just the idea I wanted; skins for the site. It should be easier, here, because people shouldn't need GM to install the hooks. *wistful* And maybe we'll pick up some people who are good enough with scripts to make an interface that can load the skins as a page-level style so we won't even have to make people mess with browser styles. I'm trying to keep the page-level style slot open so we can use it for something like that, eventually.

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