Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Stellarium download links

[Lone H. <lon...@ho...>]

Hi Matthew and Rob,

Perhaps this isn't the ideal solution, but might I suggest adding an additional link category to the Sourceforge section? Here's the idea:

http://home.comcast.net/~lonesky/Stellarium/Stellarium.html

The main link ("older releases") goes to the "Browse All Packages" page while the sub-links go to the specific OS pages.

I edited the Linux download graphic to replace the sub-links list bullet with an arrow (named 'download.png'). The 'largelist-bullet.gif' graphic didn't look right in a nested list.

I also added a new class to the CSS called 'sublist' and changed all bullet image properties from 'background-image' to 'list-style-image' because the former was causing problems in IE (surprise) with nested lists. I had to add a 'margin-left' property and tweak the 'padding-left' property to get the spacing the same (at least as it appeared in Firefox).

I tested the layout in Firefox 3 and IE7. Please review the markup and CSS to make sure there are no known mistakes. Test in other browsers if possible.

Here is the ZIP containing the markup, CSS and 'download.png' graphic:

http://home.comcast.net/~lonesky/Stellarium/Stellarium_files.zip

Also, I think it would be nice if the news section contained more entries, or perhaps an "older news" section (see layout link above). Right now there's a huge empty space in the middle column below the news section that could be put to better use it seems. Of course it doesn't have to be older news. :)

Finally, in IE7 the links in the news section don't wrap and extend into the Sourceforge section. Looks pretty bad.

Mike

P.S. Please feel free to say "no thanks" to these suggestions or change things around. I have no strong position on this matter. ;)


> From: mat...@gm...
> To: ste...@li...
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:29:34 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Stellarium download links
>
> I tried it, but it's difficult to make it look half decent without a bit of
> a re-design of the download section of the main page. :(
>
> On Friday 17 October 2008, Rob Spearman wrote:
>> I would like to suggest that we link to both the last stable and the
>> beta downloads on the stellarium site rather than just the beta.
>>
>> That way people have a choice and can find the version they need/want.
>> Seems to be a lot of confusion on this point.
>>
>> Rob
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