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Submitted by ikhnaton2 on Tue, 28/09/2004 - 20:48.
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Hi colleges,

I have a comment about eglug.org website colors and fonts which cause problem with me personaly. I don't what about other users.

The colors which is mostly some degrees of blues with combinations of red degrees doesn't make the content visibale. So it'll be great if u can change the default color scene of the website.

Thanx

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It's about website also.
Conceptor's picture
Submitted by Conceptor on Tue, 28/09/2004 - 23:38.

this may be discussed b4. i think the more needed change about EGLUG logo

the logo is transparent as PNG image file . the problem is the IE render the transparent PNG files as non-transparent which make yellowy color instead of the transparent color in background for that our lovely slogan is readable. this is not our fault . but making the site looks nice in IE . will help YoussefAssad proposal for marketing . we can use transparent GIF image ,or attach the blue color and the lovely slogan to PNG file .


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nope
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Tue, 28/09/2004 - 23:59.

IMO we should not break our website to accomodate broken software.

just tell everyone that it looks ugly because IE does not support web standards, and point them to firefox or something.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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nice note
Conceptor's picture
Submitted by Conceptor on Wed, 29/09/2004 - 03:27.

IMO add this note to YoussefAssad plan

Diaa Radwan


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gah
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 29/09/2004 - 09:21.
  1. the post you refer to is not a grand scale marketing plan its about an email campaign and is not relevant to what we do at all.
  2. we are not trying to sell a product here, the kind of service we provide, the lind of community we make is not going to be compromised because the website looks ugly on IE.
  3. are you trying to tell me that someone interested in using or contributing to free software would avoid EGLUG after taking one look at the logo????? I doubt this most community websites have a plain or ugly look, people come for the content and the people involved.
  4. we have a distinct theme not to attract people, we have it to strengthen community, the distinct theme is supposed to give character and create an independnet atmosphere, its goals are to be usable, reconisable and unique, period.
  5. avoiding b0rked software and respecting web standards is very much part of the character of EGLUG
  6. as long as the website works under IE, as long as people can read the content and seek help its good enough.

we do not attract people by look and feel folks, if we did we have failed, if thats the only way we can think of to extend our reach and membership we have failed.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Another idea.
MohammedSameer's picture
Submitted by MohammedSameer on Wed, 29/09/2004 - 01:30.

Why not use a yelowish background color for the website ??

-- I was known as Uniball!
Katoob Main developer
PekSysTray - GtkFlame


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please send mock ups
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 29/09/2004 - 00:02.

please send concerete suggestions.

send us a mockup, or an alternate css stylesheet or even an alternate drupal theme.

if the people prefer it we'll use it.

if you don't know much about design, just use gimp over a screenshot of the current theme and replce the colors with the colors you'd prefer.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Even better...
YoussefAssad's picture
Submitted by YoussefAssad on Thu, 30/09/2004 - 01:04.

If you're a firefox user, get an extension called EditCSS. You open a page, press CTRL-8, and it opens a sidebar with the CSS stylesheet in it; you edit it and the changes show up in real time.

Then when you've found something you like, save the modifications and post them.

EditCSS can be found here.

-- Panem et *burp* circenses


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Current theme
Submitted by NewComer on Thu, 30/09/2004 - 17:05.

This is a copy of this very page, along with css files and images so that anyone could play with it locally and maybe come out with a good theme.

http://www.geocities.com/fsf_osi_fsf/eglug.org.tar.gz

Copy the address to address bar and hit enter. Geocities prevents remote refering to files hosted on there servers.

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Here also.
MohammedSameer's picture
Submitted by MohammedSameer on Thu, 30/09/2004 - 19:21.

http://uniball.dyndns.org/files/eglug.org.tar.gz

Always Remember: My home server CVS and bandwidth may be used by the community for the benefit of the community.

-- I was known as Uniball!
Katoob Main developer
PekSysTray - GtkFlame


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code base mirror
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Thu, 30/09/2004 - 19:33.

since we modify the drupal codebase, maybe we should mirror our installation on your CVS server, this way we also have reliable revision control (I'm not very good at remembering to use RCS).

just make sure to avoid the config file with the passwords and we'll be fine.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Nice idea. I'm taking the ba
MohammedSameer's picture
Submitted by MohammedSameer on Thu, 30/09/2004 - 20:01.

Nice idea. I'm taking the backup now. I won't include the photos BTW what do you think ?

-- I was known as Uniball!
Katoob Main developer
PekSysTray - GtkFlame


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here is a list of things to exclude
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Fri, 01/10/2004 - 02:30.
  • files/ has uploads, images from the gallery and avatars
  • includes/conf.php has db passwords, we have nothing interesting in the confs so it won't add any info
  • *~, */*~, */*/*~, */*/*/*~, etc. who knows what sensitive info lies in old backups, please avoid them

from themes, only take eglugtemplates, the rest are there for historical reasons, eglugtemplate is a mess at the moment with loads of symlinks and shit, will cleanup one day.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Here it is.
MohammedSameer's picture
Submitted by MohammedSameer on Sun, 03/10/2004 - 01:39.

http://uniball.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/www/eglug/

Maybe i'll clean it up a bit.

-- I was known as Uniball!
Katoob Main developer
PekSysTray - GtkFlame


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