Web design
Posted by Barry Rowlingson on November 28, 2012
The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the estimated time, the last 10% takes another 90%. Hence the web page is 90% sorted.
Check it out now:
Home page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/
Single Sidebar page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/about-foss4g/contact/
Full Width Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/sponsorship-opportunities/sponsorship-packages/
Sponsor's Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/sponsors/duff-brewing-co/
(I'm thinking a sponsor's page shouldn't have all the other sponsor's in the footer)
News Posting Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/2012/10/11/foss4g-2013-logo-competition/
(just noticed the comments flow out of the boxes)
You can also check it out on phones and it should rearrange itself fairly nicely (again, some minor box overflow issues).
I've also done a print stylesheet which gets rid of most of the sidebars, menus, etc that don't make sense on paper. (maybe the sponsor logos in the footer should go too?). Do a Print Preview from your browser to check that out.
Works okay in FF, Chrome, IE-latest last time I checked it, IE-8 with slight reduced functionality/appearance, okay in Android phone browser, Opera
That's about a week's work of dicking about, cursing PHP, swearing at WordPress, trying assorted things, rescaling graphics, hunting missing semicolons etc.
To deploy this on the server will require:
1. install conferencer on server
2. install responsive theme
3. install foss4g2013 theme
4. set theme
5. modify theme defaults
6. populate theme widgets (the homepage boxes and the sidebar)
7. configure the social media thing that creates the 'Buzz'
So many steps, and most of them hard to go back on. I suggest that if Jo and I can sit down to do this together for a time one day next week then that will minimise the disruption and our combined expertises might be necessary (also we might need extra Barry K power).
I'm away Friday to Weds middayish (so will miss the group meet on Friday)
Check it out now:
Home page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/
Single Sidebar page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/about-foss4g/contact/
Full Width Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/sponsorship-opportunities/sponsorship-packages/
Sponsor's Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/sponsors/duff-brewing-co/
(I'm thinking a sponsor's page shouldn't have all the other sponsor's in the footer)
News Posting Page: http://ma-wwwprod.lancs.ac.uk:8080/wordpress/2012/10/11/foss4g-2013-logo-competition/
(just noticed the comments flow out of the boxes)
You can also check it out on phones and it should rearrange itself fairly nicely (again, some minor box overflow issues).
I've also done a print stylesheet which gets rid of most of the sidebars, menus, etc that don't make sense on paper. (maybe the sponsor logos in the footer should go too?). Do a Print Preview from your browser to check that out.
Works okay in FF, Chrome, IE-latest last time I checked it, IE-8 with slight reduced functionality/appearance, okay in Android phone browser, Opera
That's about a week's work of dicking about, cursing PHP, swearing at WordPress, trying assorted things, rescaling graphics, hunting missing semicolons etc.
To deploy this on the server will require:
1. install conferencer on server
2. install responsive theme
3. install foss4g2013 theme
4. set theme
5. modify theme defaults
6. populate theme widgets (the homepage boxes and the sidebar)
7. configure the social media thing that creates the 'Buzz'
So many steps, and most of them hard to go back on. I suggest that if Jo and I can sit down to do this together for a time one day next week then that will minimise the disruption and our combined expertises might be necessary (also we might need extra Barry K power).
I'm away Friday to Weds middayish (so will miss the group meet on Friday)
Comments
Jo Cook on November 28, 2012:
Friday next week would be the best day for me for getting this deployed on the main site- if you think the various styling issues can be resolved in time?
Jo
Jo Cook on November 28, 2012:
Jo
Steven Feldman on November 28, 2012:
Seems to work on my phone but the blocks all get placed one beneath the other which may not be the order we want them in, can explain on phone if you wish.
Suggest that the web design and CfP are main topics for Friday's call. Can everyone have a look at Barry's links and list comments, suggestions, requests so that we can get close to the finish line after Friday's call
steven
Barry Rowlingson on November 28, 2012:
On subsequent pages the sidebar always appears after the content.
Barry Rowlingson on November 28, 2012:
Have also fixed the comment overflow error reported before.
Barry Rowlingson on December 5, 2012:
currently I've just stuck in four handy images that I resized for the carousel, and the sponsors are just joke company placeholders.
Antony Scott on December 5, 2012:
Antony Scott on December 6, 2012:
Barry Rowlingson on December 6, 2012:
I can put in the necessaries to make it animate in IE8.
We could create a sponsor called 'Coming soon' in each of the categories to
get something in the sponsor boxes...
Rollo Home on December 6, 2012:
Looks good. Really good.
Barry Rowlingson on December 6, 2012:
Barry Rowlingson on December 6, 2012:
Same on the live site as my test site...
Barry Rowlingson on December 6, 2012:
Changing things in the theme is fairly straightforward now - I test it on my site, push to github, then we pull it to the live site. The one thing I tried to do today was the 'external links open in a new tab/window' thing, but didn't have time. The one thing I did do today was make the carousel work in IE8 - I ditched the CSS transitions and used a jquery cross-fade library that was included with the conferencer plugin.
We'll 'announce' it tomorrow, unless people spot it tonight.
So, check it out, complaints all go to the github site! [thinks: I should link the credit line to the github site]
Antony Scott on December 6, 2012:
Antony
Steven Feldman on December 7, 2012:
Suchith Anand on December 12, 2012:
Please add the conference theme "Geo for All" in the main page. See you all in the New Year.
Suchith
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Barry Rowlingson on December 13, 2012:
Steven Feldman on December 15, 2012:
Barry Rowlingson on December 15, 2012:
Suchith had a few words in another thread:
"We will also announce "Geo for All Declaration" at FOSS4G 2013 welcoming all interested to join and support our mission of providing geospatial education and opportunities for everyone which will be the long term legacy of our FOSS4G conference."
There's a longer text by him at the start of the thread:
https://basecamp.com/1920286/projects/762306-foss4g-13/messages/4572594-foss4g-2013-gis#comment_25902193
Suchith Anand on December 16, 2012:
I will also contact all universities who have established OSGeo labs to be the founding members of the "Geo for All" declaration which we will make open to all interested government, industry and academic organisations to join later to make sure the legacy of FOSS4G 2013 continues. Thanks.
Suchith
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Barry Rowlingson on December 17, 2012: