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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (18397)6/4/2003 11:09:38 AM
From: SI Bob  Read Replies (2) of 32968
 
First, is it just me, or is the site REAL pokey this morning?

That Khaki layout is beautiful!

However, that needs to be saved as a future development. The big challenge there is the menu buttons. There're 8 GIFs there, each of which would need modifying. Not wanting to dig that deep yet. Would rather save that for when I'm re-doing in ASP and have established a directory structure and decided whether or not to continue doing those as GIFs.

They're done as text on iHub. By default, they're displayed much like "Logout / SI Mail" on the right side, but each user can configure them to look like buttons (my personal preference), but since they're text, the only clickable part of the "button" is the text in it. It's been complained about once. Using GIFs solves that "problem", but gives me less flexibility. And GIFs are bigger than text. I'm extremely tight-fisted when it comes to bandwidth, having been stuck with dialup for years until recently.

So, have a look at SI3 and let me know if that's a workable stopgap for now. Let me know if there are other suggested changes to it that don't involve the GIF menu buttons and can co-exist with them the way they are.

I like the overall look of having the blue background on the right side, but for you non-colorblind folks, does it also make the "SI Guys" harder to see? Which might be a good thing in that they're ornamental and not necessary visually for functionality?
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