Re: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI website upgrade - help wanted

[Andrew G. <an...@zo...>]

Doug Melvin wrote:

> very late at night (or very early morning)...
>  
> I only took a quick spin and two things come to mind:
>  
> 1) The black text on dark blue background would be difficult for 
> someone who is visually impaired, or colour blind to read. Perhapse 
> lighten the blue a lot, or change the black text to white for better 
> contrast.

Hmm. The "dark blue" background looked quite light on my laptop.  I've 
since copied some colours and the logo from the original website.  Is it 
still too dark? (the previous colour was #2794d8, now it is #a1b8cc).

>  
> 2)Would it be possible to put an extra line break between articles in 
> the right-most column.
> I find that it is difficult for me to pick out induvidual items from 
> eachother. Also maybe widen the right panel ever so slightly as well. :-)

Yes, the column is narrower than on the original site; the numbering of 
items makes it even worse; and there is no vertical space between items. 
I will fix this as soon as I can.

>  
> Cheers.
> Doug
>  
> P.S. If y ou really want laout submissions, I'll do one up.
>     however, I will warn you that I am somewhat a minimalist when it 
> comes to visual design.
>     <grin>

I like minimalist. Take a look at 
http://dynapi.sourceforge.net/phpwebsite/themes/ to see what a 
phpwebsite theme consists of.  I've made a copy of the "Default" theme, 
called it "DynAPI", and set this as the site default.

Doug, if you create an account on the new site (I'm unable to transfer 
the accounts from the original site), then I'll enable admin access for 
you. To install or modify a theme, you'll need shell access to the 
server.  Is this a problem?


thank you for responding,
Andrew