Re: Membership request for group GNU Herds - Free Software Association

[Davi Leal]

Ramyashree wrote:
> I'm interested in improving the presentation layer of the GNU Herds
> website. I'm a recent graduate with MS in Software Engineering degree. My
> area of expertise is Java,HTML,CSS,Javascript,XML.

The main problem now is that the <table> based layout sucks!


We are experimenting just on a "Save as" copy of the HTML code of the home 
page, http://gnuherds.org/

Current status of experiments realized by others developers:
 * Sameer:   http://www.damagehead.com/gnuherds.org/index.php
 * Antenore: http://gnuherds.org/div/

You could do a "Save as" copy of the Sameer's work and:
 1. Convert it to HTML 4.01 Strict
 2. Add the logo
 3. Add the vertical menu


You should subscribe to the development email list and ask about anything:
  http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuherds-app-dev


Some notes about this task are registered at:

  task: Use "HTML 4.01 Strict" instead of "HTML 4.01 Transitional", and
        a <div>s based layout instead of a <table>s based one

        http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?6177


Note the goal is use "HTML 4.01 Strict" not XHTML. You could take a look at 
the conclusion section of "Beware of XHTML" [1]: 

  [1] http://www.webdevout.net/articles/beware-of-xhtml#conclusion



The project is never in a hurry.

Best regards,
Davi