Can you pick a browser-safe color that would work better? The peach is a
tad brighter than I wanted but I'll see if I can pick another one to work
with "Amber" themes. I was weighing whether to fade the image another
notch as well.
On Oct 3, 2016 7:45 PM, "Nhai" <nhai.qn.gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I think the background color is very strong and not eye pleasing. The TOC
> is very crowded too.
>
> Hai
>
> > On Oct 3, 2016, at 7:27 PM, David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > How does it look now?
> >
> > http://casegroup.rutgers.edu/~cerutti/amber_web/tutorials/
> >
> > I have the masthead.jpg image rendered with layers in .xcf format (Gnu
> > Image Manipulation Program), anticipating that we can make that our
> banner
> > with a bit of text-as-image. (I'd suggest "AMBER Molecular Simulations,"
> > but I'm sure we'll have some exchanges about the exact words.)
> >
> > I've tried to nail things down pretty well but I haven't yet tested
> across
> > many browsers.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> >
> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:28 PM, David A Case <david.case.rutgers.edu>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016, Dave Cerutti wrote:
> >>>
> >>> All right, thanks for the outpouring of support. I will explain
> briefly
> >>> some of what I had been trying to accomplish.
> >>
> >> Thanks for your careful looks at the tutorial web page. Some comments
> are
> >> interspersed below.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> *- Single page format is too long.*
> >>
> >> I basically agree here.
> >>
> >> Can we get a visually attractive top-level ToC? The existing boxes and
> >> ToC images are not perfect, but they do add visual interest and separate
> >> one entry from the next one. Is there some analogue for a new ToC page?
> >> And, let's try to keep the number of sub-ToC's as small as we can (that
> >> still makes sense.)
> >>
> >>> There are also logistical considerations. If everything is on one
> >>> page, that means that all 49 ToC images have to be transferred when the
> >>> page loads. People look at this site on their mobile devices,....
> >>
> >> If some of the ToC graphics are too big, we should pare them down, in my
> >> view.
> >> A ToC graphic should be small. If there is a neat figure that
> illustrates
> >> something important, put it into the tutorial proper.
> >>
> >> Supporting mobile devices is a large-ish ask, and would probably involve
> >> a major effort spanning the entire site. Let's see if we can fix the
> >> tutorials first.
> >>
> >>> ....the fonts need to change. The Sans-Serif headings contrasting
> >>> with the serif text is odd, but the italicized blue serif links do not
> >> fare
> >>> well on top of the textured grey background. This is a computational
> >>> chemistry package, and we often express ideas in which commas and tick
> >>> marks matter. They get lost against the textured background and they
> can
> >>> blend in with serif fonts, especially if italics are in play. People
> who
> >>> know the material may not see a problem, but they're also not the ones
> >> who
> >>> need to read the pages.
> >>
> >> OK: I hadn't realized the problem of the texture background interfering
> >> with
> >> seeing commas and tick-marks. I'd like to have a common background
> image,
> >> and
> >> suggestions are welcome.
> >>
> >> Sans-serif headlines combined with serif text is not "odd": is is a very
> >> common standard (see, e.g. the Manual, which uses the koma-script LateX
> >> defaults.) But using better colors is fine, and even different fonts,
> if
> >> that
> >> is what people want. However, I'd like to have a common "amber.css"
> file,
> >> rather than a "tutorial.css" file that is only used for part of the
> site.
> >>
> >> Maybe the simplest thing is to create a git branch where suggested pages
> >> could
> >> go; those could then be easily merged into the master branch as people
> >> agree
> >> on what should be done.
> >>
> >> Thanks again to Dave for looking into this, and for continuing to pursue
> >> it.
> >>
> >> ...dac
> >>
> >>
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