[Nottingham] NLUG new website: Comments #04

[Christopher Joice]

I see no point in having text in an image, @font-face solves all!

Might be worth changing the colour of links as the blue doesn't show up well
over the green.

On 30 October 2010 21:48, Rory Holland <rory at linux.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >> --
> >> ----------------
> >> Martin Lomas
> >> martin at ml1.co.uk <mailto:martin at ml1.co.uk>
> >> ----------------
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