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#37 2009-10-04 20:53:22
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Whoa, you’re too fast for me to keep up ;)
the mininav conflicts with the article list. Looks like a float/positioning conflict.
Do you think it’s that bad? (See my edit 2 below.)
Maybe the simplest solution is to come up with a paragraph or two for each sub-category page.
No problem if you can write them ;)
I’ll now go and add that model tutorial page, before there’s nothing left to do for me…
Edit: Maybe Nora can solve that positioning problem?
Edit 2: Is this a possible temporary solution?
Edit 3: I think adding a clear:right; to #mw-pages in the CSS will solve it.
Last edited by els (2009-10-04 21:02:37)
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Els wrote:
Is this a possible temporary solution?
Yes, let’s keep it till a) Nora comes up with a CSS-based solution, or b) appropriate blurbs for each sub-category page appear.
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#39 2009-10-04 21:30:15
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
…add that model tutorial page
Done.
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Nothing to add apart from to say: nice work you two. Tutorials pages are lookin’ sweeeeeet and it’s much easier to find stuff now. Where’s that thumbs up emoticon when you need it…
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Hm. I haven’t been getting the updates to this thread, though it says I’m subscribed…Argh, will review what’s been said recently.
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Okay, so as far as I know (and I’m not saying I really do know) I don’t have server access. If I did, I’d be happy to make the CSS changes discussed in this forum to improve the layout of the Tutorials page.
I think the mininav is excellent, and I think we can make a lot of progress with the CSS improvements as well as with renaming and using the custom-alphabetization feature judiciously.
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#42 2009-10-07 16:51:18
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Nora, if you can edit the css file, I’ll see if I can manage to get it on the server (never done that, but I do have access…).
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Nora, with the server credentials you have, you can indeed work with server files, as can Els and Bloke too now.
I’ll try and keep in the loop a bit more and help if there’s problems.
Oh, and anybody should be able to use templates, not just people with sysop privileges.
Last edited by Destry (2009-10-08 12:35:32)
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
BTW, it’s nice to see everyone fixing up the Tutorials.
The state they were in was never meant to be considered “done” (nothing in a wiki ever is). When I redesigned the wiki and made the global IA changes, the Tutorials was part of that process but only partly finished; I just pulled out the stand-alone explanation pages that were in All Pages and gave them a top level home (Tutorials) so we could put a main nav link to them. I put them in a category knowing that when there was a enough of them they would be subcategorized a bit. Granted the alphabetizing nature of the wiki categories doesn’t always work at the page title level (unlike for Tags, e.g.,), which you guys are realizing and dealing with nicely.
Bravo!
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#45 2009-10-08 21:26:57
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Since Destry wrote:
I’ll be jumping into the wiki presentation again soon to bring the theme into alignment with the new .com design
I assume we’d better leave the css alone for now?
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Re: [wiki] Tutorials page: layout & scope
Unless you need help, I wouldn’t wait for me. It might be some days yet before I can really look at it. I’ll mainly just be tweaking the theme overall.
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