Re: [Gramps-users] Web Site Output

[Shane K. <sh...@sh...>]

Glenn McKechnie wrote:

> First a query, I saved the page locally using "Web page complete" under
> mozilla but the results are different. The botCorner.gif,
> middle-join.gif and topCorner.gif don't match as they should, any
> enlightenment as to why?
> http://members.optushome.com.au/graybeard/gramps/screentree.png
>
It looks like Mozilla didn't save the middle.gif file. You need that, too.

http://www.shanekillian.org/gramps/middle.gif

> Followed by a couple of observations...
> 
> 1) The superscripts 1 and 2 no longer call up there anchors in the
> Sources section. However, even if that section were made to open on the
> appropriate click it's not necessarily obvious what the numbers
> reference. ie: The material all fits on one page so the visual cue of
> the page scrolling to the bottom won't always be there to direct the
> users eyes.

Yeah, I was wondering about that, but couldn't come up with a good 
solution. Maybe the footnotes should be at the bottom of the individual 
text region?

> Something as simple as <a href="#s2" title="Birth, Death and Marriage
> Records"> may be sufficient, although that appears to be a tad slow to
> display.  Mouse over text popups or some other magic may be a better
> solution?
>
That might be another idea.

> 2) It wasn't immediately obvious that the min.gif and max.gif were the
> key to the exercise as the cursor didn't indicate any change on mouse
> over. I can picture the aged Aunt/Uncle getting frustrated with the
> small, unknown target. To their credit they learn quickly but the
> hand eye co-ordination is not what it used to be. ;-)
>
I can change the cursor, no problem,

> Is there a possibility of an "expand all option"?
> 
I'll give it a shot this afternoon.

> 3) It's possibly because this is a simple example but the clickable 
> headshot doesn't appear to achieve a worthwhile result.
> <a href="isO3.jpg"><img src="isO3.jpg" alt="Edwin Michael Smith"></a>
> Perhaps the intention is to redirect to a larger image or to a
> group photo that the headshot was extracted from? (I seem to recall
> that is a feature in the works?) 
>
I was basing that off of the example; I wasn't attempting to design or 
even decipher what links were supposed to do or where they were supposed 
to go.

> You can add Opera to the successful list
> opera -version
> Opera 7.54 Final. Build 751 for Linux. Qt library 3.3.3
> 
> "Identify as Opera" - yes
> 
Cool! Thanks for your input.

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