Re: website draft 9

[Patrick McCarty]

On 2009-09-07, Patrick Schmidt wrote:
> 
> > Very cool.  I like it.
> > 
> > One comment about the lily-home-png:  I don't really like the gray
> > top/bottom border you are using, since the other gradient images don't
> > have this border.
> Thanks for the hint. How did you spot the gray top/bottom
> border?With GIMP? I can't really see any borders in the browser
> (Firefox)?!

Try zooming in on the webpage in Firefox.  You can't zoom in as far as
with Opera, but the pixel-width top/bottom borders are definitely
visible at max-zoom in Firefox.

> It's strange that these borders don't show on the other
> gradient images as I developed all pngs from one original. If I cut
> off the borders of this original now and make new lily-home-pngs I
> would have to change all the pngs of the main menu bar because
> otherwise the gradients would differ a little bit. So for now I'm
> going to leave them as they are.

Okay.  But please consider changing them in a future design update.

Unless you *want* the top and bottom borders in the images.  Just as
long as we are consistent, things will look more professional.

> > > BTW: Has anybody out there a clue why the lily-home-png (the tab
> > > with the lily on the left) appears to be a wee bit smaller than the
> > > rest of the main menu bar even though all pngs have the same size?
> > 
> > Yes, this is because there are hair-splitting calculations going on in
> > the CSS.
> > 
> > The tiny "border" that appears underneath the top navigation bar is
> > the result of background colors showing through, since the
> > line-height/padding of the text is slightly larger than the gradient
> > images.  In other words, everything is currently estimated, and I
> > don't know how to make it more exact.
> > 
> > The lily-home-png image appears to be a different size because of this
> > estimation.  The attached patch seems to provide better results, but I
> > don't know if this is what you want.  I've only tested Firefox 3.5.2.
> 
> Thanks for your help!

You're welcome.

-Patrick