Just a reminder that the art design contest is still open. Submit to me a
contiguous image with cutouts measuring 900 x 96, 140 x 30, and 140 x 50+
pixels and codes for the colored bars and highlighting, and I will see
about making a mock-up in the new scheme. I haven't done a lot on the web
page redesign in the past couple of months, but the nearly complete product
can be viewed here:
http://casegroup.rutgers.edu/~cerutti/amber_web/index.php
For anyone wishing to download and play around with the project, the
NewFormat branch in the amber_web repository will let you see what I have
done. An ascii text editor and some image editor are all that one needs to
work on the pages: the page source is always to be human-readable. There
are some /~cerutti/ leading characters in some of the .php links that will
have to be changed when the thing goes live, but it should allow additions
or changes that people would like to contribute prior to the meeting.
Dave
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Nhai <nhai.qn.gmail.com> wrote:
> amber website design as a project for undergraduate student is a good plan
> and I am +1.
>
> I also agree that we can make several themes and let's vote in amber
> meeting.
>
> Cheers
> Hai
>
> > On Oct 9, 2016, at 5:18 PM, David Cerutti <dscerutti.gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Amber Devs,
> >
> > I think the look and functionality of the tutorials pages is converging
> > nicely. When students and scientists look for a molecular simulations
> > package, I want them to learn about what they're doing and I want them to
> > choose us: the new site is getting there. The basic format can be viewed
> > here:
> >
> > http://casegroup.rutgers.edu/~cerutti/amber_web/tutorials/
> >
> > When the tutorials get wrapped in the navigation framework I've designed
> > (essentially, by adding 3-5 lines of <?php ?> code and linking in the
> style
> > sheet), they will start to look more like the redesigned leap tutorial:
> >
> > http://casegroup.rutgers.edu/~cerutti/amber_web/tutorials/
> pengfei/index.php
> >
> > I did this one as an example, and I've contributed a couple of my own
> > tutorials which follow the proposed format, which also includes a means
> for
> > leaving a trail of breadcrumbs so that users can always find their way
> back
> > to the beginning of a particular tutorial, back to the section containing
> > similar tutorials, or anywhere else on the Amber site as they work
> through
> > their project. It can be seen in action here:
> >
> > http://casegroup.rutgers.edu/~cerutti/amber_web/tutorials/
> > advanced/tutorial28/Part2.php
> >
> > That page is the second of four stages in deriving IPolQ charges--as you
> > can see the peach bar underneath the navigation panel gets links back to
> > Force Field tutorials and the front of the current tutorial. In this
> > manner, the site is designed so that other contributors can easily tap
> into
> > the navigation for their own content and sub-pages. The page source is
> > human readable because it is completely human-written: I am not using a
> web
> > design studio to ensure that everyone will be able to edit the content
> with
> > vi / emacs / gedit.
> >
> > I've gotten some praise for the design and requests to make the rest of
> the
> > Amber site consistent, perhaps by working with a student intern in one of
> > our groups. If anyone has an undergrad who is so inclined and has flare
> > for presentation, this could be a good project. Dan Roe made an
> excellent
> > suggestion that, as we change the website we also check to make sure that
> > all of the tutorials still work. We could have the undergraduate work
> > through the tutorials during the site redesign to ensure that all of them
> > stand in working order and are clearly written. He or she would learn
> > Linux, scripting, Amber itself, and some web coding.
> >
> > Of course, it's hard to please everyone. As I've said, I am taking
> > suggestions from people who truly feel invested in this, in the sense
> that
> > I'm willing to make pizza for everyone but not inviting everyone to call
> > out toppings. With that, I'd like to propose an art contest. The color
> > scheme and masthead that I have chosen have been refined somewhat over
> the
> > past week to reflect our namesake and a palette that is lively but not
> > screaming. If, however, you want to see a different theme, send me a
> > detailed image for the masthead (900 x 96 pixels, containing an
> appropriate
> > logo with text as image), two more for the vertical bar (140 x 30 and
> 140 x
> > 50+, to sit flush against the masthead and the second blending to the
> > vertical nav bar color), and three color codes to use in the navigation
> > (the current three are red #990000, peach #ff9966, and black #000000).
> The
> > background will remain white, in the interest of best melding with plots
> > and images throughout the rest of our content. It will take me 15-20
> > minutes to create a mock-up of the website in each new theme. We can
> then
> > have a vote on the design at some point in the future, perhaps at the
> Devs
> > meeting.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Dave
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