[Nottingham] NLUG new website: Comments #04

[Rory Holland]

No I mean it would be two images. Text on the left, image in the right. Ill
show you tomorrow night when I actually make one

sent from my phone; please excuse errors
On 30 Oct 2010 18:15, "James of the Family Moore" <
jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:
> http://www.open-gateway.net/afbeeldingen/tux_evolution_sign.jpg
>
> like that?
>
> On 30/10/2010 17:50, Rory Holland wrote:
>> 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
>> <mailto: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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>> martin at ml1.co.uk <mailto:martin at ml1.co.uk>
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