[tei-council] Re: [tei-board] new look TEI web site

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Matthew Zimmerman wrote:

>
> So, do you want specific feedback about the layout, design, etc. 
> etc... or is that something that is going to be dealt with later by 
> the Virginia folks or one of John's students?

I am interested in feedback about the layout, because this is more or 
less now the default of my stylesheets;
even if the TEI C does better in due course, I want my stylesheets to 
produce something plausible now.

I regard this as a placeholder for the next 6 months; I don't want to 
pressurize Virginia to do a complete rethink
a lot faster than that, but equally I don't want to leave things as they 
are.

> My initial response is that something has to be done to make ti more 
> "readable". It seems a bit "busy" to me. My eye doesn't get drawn to 
> any one place and I can't tell the difference between headers and 
> text. Also I think the horizontal menu and bread crumbs seem to clash 
> with each other.
>
I was copying things like 
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/reports/plag_index.xml; do you find that 
better? is
this a matter of colours?

I encourage any of you who are comfortable with CSS to grab a copy of 
one of the pages as HTML,
get the CSS from /stylesheets/teic.css and experiment with colours and 
spacing.

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