Re: [Bug-gnubg] documentation: website ground rules

[Nis Jorgensen]

Sorry - this went to Alef only yesterday ...

Alef Rosenbaum wrote:


>>Besides keeping it simple, are there any other general ground rules for
>>redesigning the website? Can I use tables in the html to create a more
>>professional layout?
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Tables for layout is considered a Bad Thing (TM) by web purists, a label
I would happily stick unto myself. CSS (and XHTML) is the way to go. If
you need help implementing your "professional layout" using CSS, please ask.


>>I know this can be a problem if people are viewing the
>>site with Lynx.
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More than a problem of certain browsers, the problem is that you do not
separate content and style. Thus updating the layout becomes harder than
it needs to be, as does updating of the content.

For something as small as the gnubg website, I think this is not a big
issue - but if we believe in web standardisation (and I do, strongly),
we should practice (in both meanings of that word) what we preach.


>>Are there other sites that gnubg.org could look more like? Or other sites
>>that it should avoid any similarity to? I figure I should just aim for clean
>>and easy to understand.
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Yes, yes, and yes 

-- Nis Jorgensen Your man in Amsterdam [1] To the pedantics: Yes, tables
are also part of the HTML standard(s). But they are supposed to be used
for tabular data, not for positioning stuff on the screen.