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Subject: Re: Website redesign
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:40:52 +0200
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On 9 Aug 2009, at 19:48, maddiin wrote:

> I've attached a new stylesheet and logo regarding the latest =20
> concerns. Jan, please throw them into couch-site.
>> FWIW, I prefer the new look :) I'm sure there's some detail work =20
>> needed and we need to work on the content, too, but it'd be great =20
>> if we get somebody to feel responsible for the visuals. Maddiin, =20
>> would you be interested?
> Yes.
>
>> Actually, I'll expand that a little. It would be nice to have =20
>> someone who was generally responsible for: * Keeping our main site =20=

>> up to date. * Performing general housekeeping activity on the wiki. =20=

>> * Keeping an official blog up to date with news from the community.
>
> I would volunteer for the blog and maybe the wiki housekeeping, but =20=

> I think someone who really is fluent in spoken and written english =20
> should be chosen. I could assist however.

 =46rom what I read here your english is more than adequate for the =20
job=99. We can always have native speakers clean up thinks, but don't =20=

let your non-nativism discourage you :)


> As for the wiki, I think about making a theme that matches the new =20
> layout. Is it planned to swap the wiki software at some point? (I =20
> somehow remember an IRC conversation about this.)

I'd love a replicating CouchDB-based wiki software that we could ship =20=

with CouchDB which serves as offline-available online documentation =20
that is editable. I started writing a generic CouchDB wiki but never =20
got far. Maybe somebody else can step up? But maybe I'm the only one =20
who likes the replicating wiki :)

Cheers
Jan
--


> /*
> *********************************
>                                 *
>  Created: August, 2009           *
>  Author:  Martin Czura            *
>  Website: www.byteshrine.org     *
>                                 *
> *********************************
>
> ~ Reset */
>
> html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, =20
> h6, p, blockquote, pre, a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code, =20=

> del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp, small, strike, =20
> strong, sub, sup, tt, var, dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li, fieldset, form, =20
> label, legend, table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
>    border: 0;
>    font-family: inherit;
>    font-size: 100%;
>    font-style: inherit;
>    font-weight: inherit;
>    margin: 0;
>    padding: 0;
>    outline: 0;
>    vertical-align: baseline;
> }
>
> html, body {
>    height: 100.1%;
>    margin: 0 0 1px 0;
> }
>
> body {
>    background: #d5d5d5;
>    color: #222;
>    font: 100%/1.5 Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", "Century Schoolbook =20=

> L", "Liberation Serif", serif;
> }
>
> /* Page construct */
>
> #header {
>    background: #fff;
>    margin: 0 auto;
>    width: 52em;
> }
>
> #content {
>    background: #fff;
>    margin: 0 auto;
>    padding: .65em 2em;
>    width: 48em;
> }
>
> body>#content { margin-top: -15px; }
>
> #footer {
>    color: #777;
>    font-size: 87.5%;
>    padding: 1em;
>    text-align: center;
> }
>
> /* Navigation */
>
> body>#navigation {
>    background: url(navi-bg.png) repeat-x bottom;
>    padding: 0 0 15px 0;
>    position: relative;
> }
>
> #navigation ul {
>    background: #bd101d;
>    border-bottom: 3px solid #b00000;
>    border-top: 3px solid #d00000;
>    margin: 0;
>    text-align: center;
> }
>
> #navigation li { display: inline; }
>
> #navigation a {
>    color: #e5c5c5;
>    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, FreeSans, "Liberation Sans", =20
> "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif;
>    font-weight: bold;
>    margin: 0 .85em;
>    text-decoration: none;
> }
>
> #navigation a:hover, #navigation .active { color: #fff; }
>
> /* Headings */
>
> h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
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>    font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida =20
> Grande", Lucida, sans-serif;
> }
>
> h1 {
>    font-size: 175%;
>    line-height: .85;
>    margin: .85em 0;
> }
> #header h1 { display: none; }
>
> h2 {
>    font-size: 137.5%;
>    line-height: 1.1;
>    margin: 1.65em 0 1.1em 0;
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>
> h3 {
>    font-size: 112.5%;
>    line-height: 1.33;
>    margin: 1.33em 0;
> }
>
> h4, h5, h6 {
>    color: #667;
>    font-size: 93.75%;
>    font-weight: bold;
>    margin: 1.5em 0 -.75em 0;
> }
>
> /* Messy */
>
> a { color: #8b0000; }
> a:hover, a:visited { text-decoration: none; }
>
> #header a, #header img {
>    display: block;
>    height: 110px;
>    width: 400px;
> }
>
> blockquote, p, ol, ul { margin: 1.5em 0; }
>
> ul ul, ol ol { margin: 0 0 0 1em; }
>
> pre, code {
>    font-family: "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", =20
> "Liberation Mono", "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
>    font-weight: normal;
> }
>
> p code { font-size: 81.25%; }
>
> pre {
>    background: #f5f5f5;
>    border: 1px solid #ddd;
>    font-size: 81.25%;
>    line-height: 1.4;
>    margin: 2em -.2em;
>    padding: .2em;
> }
>
> .showcase {
>    font-style: italic;
>    margin: 2em 0 3em 0;
>    text-align: center;
> }
> .showcase img { border: 1px solid #ccc; }
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