New "skin" for ITA site
Thu, 3 Feb 2000, 10:20 pmGrant Malcolm5 posts in thread
New "skin" for ITA site
Thu, 3 Feb 2000, 10:20 pmCheck out the fantastic new skin for the ITA website designed by none other than Jeff Asselin aka. Retro.
Grovelling apologies from me to Jeff for taking soooo loooong to get this up! Jeff actually finished the design for this before Christmas. It's taken me a month to come back from holiday and integrate his design into the site.
If you can find any bugs, please let me know and I'll try and get them fixed before putting this skin up as the new front page for the site.
http://theatre.asn.au/skins/retro
I'm sure Jeff will be delighted to hear your feedback!
Cheers
Grant
PS. If anyone else would like to try their hand at doing a design, please let me know - i promise to be a bit quicker next time!
Grovelling apologies from me to Jeff for taking soooo loooong to get this up! Jeff actually finished the design for this before Christmas. It's taken me a month to come back from holiday and integrate his design into the site.
If you can find any bugs, please let me know and I'll try and get them fixed before putting this skin up as the new front page for the site.
http://theatre.asn.au/skins/retro
I'm sure Jeff will be delighted to hear your feedback!
Cheers
Grant
PS. If anyone else would like to try their hand at doing a design, please let me know - i promise to be a bit quicker next time!
RE: New "skin" for ITA site
Wed, 9 Feb 2000, 09:38 pmHi Jeff
Thanks for the feedback on the new skin.
> Generall, looks great from the front page, but the
> Message board leave a little to be desired. The text
> of the messages is very hard to read. Needs to be
> darker I think.
i'll have a look at making the changes you've suggested.
> Grant I am interested in creating a skin. How?
You've noticed that the orange wrap-around is reproduced identically on every page... this really just gives the site a familiar look on each page. Everything outside this orange bit basically stays the same - this is the stuff you can play with in the skin. The inside bits can be fiddled only a little as this is the content - you can specify background images, colours and the text syles and faces.
If you check the HTML source of each page, you'll notice some start and end body tags. Basically every thing outside those tags is a wrapper or skin for the content of the site.
I like Jeff - Retro's - use of frames to keep the menu on screen. It also runs faster as we only need to load the relevant content each time and not the wrapper.
I know i've argued against frames in the past... the advantage of these skins is that we can actually have "multiple looks and feels" for the website, so the frameless ugly orange pages can stay for the folks without frames :)
Cheers
Grant
Thanks for the feedback on the new skin.
> Generall, looks great from the front page, but the
> Message board leave a little to be desired. The text
> of the messages is very hard to read. Needs to be
> darker I think.
i'll have a look at making the changes you've suggested.
> Grant I am interested in creating a skin. How?
You've noticed that the orange wrap-around is reproduced identically on every page... this really just gives the site a familiar look on each page. Everything outside this orange bit basically stays the same - this is the stuff you can play with in the skin. The inside bits can be fiddled only a little as this is the content - you can specify background images, colours and the text syles and faces.
If you check the HTML source of each page, you'll notice some start and end body tags. Basically every thing outside those tags is a wrapper or skin for the content of the site.
I like Jeff - Retro's - use of frames to keep the menu on screen. It also runs faster as we only need to load the relevant content each time and not the wrapper.
I know i've argued against frames in the past... the advantage of these skins is that we can actually have "multiple looks and feels" for the website, so the frameless ugly orange pages can stay for the folks without frames :)
Cheers
Grant