Damn you, Bridget! Damn you to Hades! You broke my heart in a million pieces! You made me love you, and then you-- I SHAVED MY BEARD FOR YOU, DEVIL WOMAN!

Monty ,'Trash'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


Jon B. - May 19, 2008 12:12:26 pm PDT #2191 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

do you have a framework page to drop that into?

Sorry, no, not yet. I did update the voting page though! :)


§ ita § - May 19, 2008 12:26:15 pm PDT #2192 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From looking at it, Deena, I think it could stand to be dumbed down a bit in the beginning, and I'm wondering if we shouldn't tidy up buffista.css a little. Not in any huge way, in any way that should break anyone's custom CSS. Just to make it more legible.

Like saying

body {
text-align: center;
background-color: #fff;
min-width: 700px;
font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
}

instead of

body {
text-align: center;
background: #fff;
min-width: 700px;
font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif;
}

Making all our hex codes 6 digits long.

Adding comments.

You know, polite stuff. And we should definitely link to it from both the CSS entry page and the how-tos.


Deena - May 19, 2008 12:39:50 pm PDT #2193 of 4673
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

I agree, ita. background-color, especially, threw me. I'll ease into it a little slower and send you a new version tomorrow.


§ ita § - May 19, 2008 12:46:37 pm PDT #2194 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Yeah--there's some shorthand there, and it's doing no one any favours. Why don't you assume that there won't be any shorthand in it, and I'll take it out? And then maybe Jon can verify I actually accomplished it.

Also consider that I think there should be a separate page that describes containers (better terminology than block, IMO, since block has an explicit CSS meaning) both in general HTML ( t div and t span and the like) as well as our own classes and IDs and styles. So hopefully we won't be pushing people down the view source pathway.


Deena - May 19, 2008 12:55:52 pm PDT #2195 of 4673
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Okay ita, I can do that.


Jon B. - May 19, 2008 1:00:32 pm PDT #2196 of 4673
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Sounds like a plan.


Sophia Brooks - May 19, 2008 1:21:47 pm PDT #2197 of 4673
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you guys so much for doing this! I, for one, really need it.

I will note that I am thought of as a computer genius at work because I know how to use Microsoft Office, and when I think of you guys and your computer geniusness, I have to laugh!


§ ita § - May 19, 2008 6:31:55 pm PDT #2198 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Trust me, I'm blushing. A whole lot of cotton wool going on up here.

Jon--I had another thought about the right hand panel. I guess this is where people who may have extensively customised their CSS shoot me, but, well, might as well test the krav training. Maybe no one got that far.

Philosophically, should each thread in, say, Site Administration be a list element, potentially broken into spans to accomodate the formatting needs within the title/slug combo? As it is, each one is two divs.


§ ita § - May 19, 2008 8:32:35 pm PDT #2199 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Of course, in that case, the list of threads on the front page should be a thread element, and that starts getting unwieldy...


Frankenbuddha - May 20, 2008 4:38:26 am PDT #2200 of 4673
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

The board is reeeeeeeally slow for me today, both getting on a thread and posting.