[Nottingham] NLUG new website: Comments #04

[Rory Holland]

I'll make a banner. It will be in two parts, one to fix left and one to fix
right, with a solid colour in the middle defined in the page's CSS. This
means it can be scaled horizontally.

On 30 October 2010 17:47, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I've been tweaking again, ahead of demo-ing website options at this
> Wednesday's talk... (More on that later ;-) )
>
> Trying to incorporate the comments and ideas I've heard thus far, I've
> revamped:
>
> http://nlug-3.wp.ml1.co.uk/
>
> It is now a fully flexible width and it looks fine on both my desktop
> and smartphone thingie alike.
>
> I've also discovered that the latest browsers now support setting
> background gradients in the html/css. Ofcourse, the Mozilla, Webkit and
> IE render engines all do different things with IE not doing gradients at
> all. Can people check that the site renders sensibly please?
>
> The gradient code used is:
>
> background: #55aa55; /* fallback for older/unsupporting browsers */
> background: -moz-linear-gradient(-45deg, #117711, white 110%);
> background: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 110%, 0 110%, from(#55aa55),
> to(white));
>
>
> To add a bit of interest to the site instead of it looking very boringly
> geekie text-only, can anyone suggest/offer a banner strip (or logo
> strip) that can be added?
>
> One thought is a montage of from abacus - to babbage - to silicon chip.
>
> Any other ideas? Evolution of the penguin?... Dare we include any group
> pics??! :-o
>
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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