Re: [Bodington-developers] CSS and Colours in Bodington

[Adam M. <ada...@co...>]

Matthew - could you add the fisrt bit of this (which I deleted) to the bo=
d.org wiki?

In message <442...@ou...>
bod...@li... writes:
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> Questions
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> First of all why do we have a different set of colours for the
> navigation display?
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> With Bodington always displaying the resource tree in the context of
> other pages (frames) having different colours set for the resource tree
> compared to the rest of the site looks strange. What might make sense
> would be to have containers displayed in a different set of colours to
> the tools so that it was clearer to a user when he had reached a tool,
> although I'm not convinced that this is worth it.

If its a lot of effort then I'd say its not worth it either, if somebody =
does
set a load of crap colours then the best solution is for them to undo the=
ir mistake!

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> Should the the graphic colours not fallback to the standard foreground
> and background colours?
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> If someone wants to quickly customize the colours of the site they migh=
t
> expect to be able to just change the foreground and background colours
> and have everything update.

yES YOU'RE PROLLY RIGHT

> If the graphics followed these colours then
> this would be possible but at the moment they just continue to use ligh=
t
> and dark grey.
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> Why is there table emphasis (<td class=3D"blah">) instead of using the
> table heading tag (<th>)?

A FINE QUESTION -> accessibility issues here I think.

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> Most tables should probably use the <th> to denote the emphasises cells
> as this shows more clearly that these cells are the headings. There may
> still be a call for emphasis in tables (eg the total of your bank
> balance) but why not just use the standard emphasis?
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> Is it acceptable to use the Navigation Colours outside the navigation p=
age?
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> In the UHI L&F colours such as the Header Background Colour are used fo=
r
> things like the header in the creation page and management pages.
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> Should the Graphic Colour in the breadcrumb trail follows the graphic
> colours  to which they pertain?
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> The breadcrumb trail in the top frame show the resource as these icons
> represent resources higher up the tree wouldn't it make sense if they
> followed the colours of the their own resources? This way it would be
> easier to use colours to signify different parts of the tree.
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> I'll leave it there for now.
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> Notes
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> The reason I am looking at this is that we are trying to merge the UHI
> creation changes onto WebLearn and there are lots of colours fixed in
> the style.css file which means that being able to change the colours no
> longer works consistently. It also seems that at the moment more colour=
s
> are used that are available in the resource properties.
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I'm v keen to use UHIs new pages, it's highyl visible and make people thi=
nk
we've been hard at work (which of course we have been). We need to weigh =
up the
pros and cons of a not-totally-ideal situation here.

adam

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