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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] KLI Website

Brent Kesler ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Lawrence M. Schoen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Okay, so let&#39;s talk about the KLI website.<div>
<br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I would welcome your feedback and response to this idea. I&#39;d like to have input of ideas </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">for specific sites we should have in addition to the examples I&#39;ve listed above. And I </div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">most especially want to hear from Klingonists with the technical skill and the enthusiasm </div>

<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to take on the responsibility of one or more of these KLI satellite websites.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m sure we have more than our fair share of web designers and developers here. The key question is whether the volunteers can agree on the framework to use for the overall look and feel. You might want to have one person in charge of the overall design, while the satellites make changes mostly to the content.</div>
<div><br></div><div>That common look and feel is going to be the hard part. Front-end web design is a lot harder today than when the KLI website first went up. People have come to expect a much cleaner look than they did in the 1990&#39;s, and making that clean look can take a lot of time. HTML and CSS are not as straightforward as they used to be. It&#39;s amazing how much overhead goes into making sure the footer of your webpage actually sticks to the bottom of the window. I actually find mucking with the HTTP protocol easier than making sure a box on a webpage is the right size.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Some sort of design framework is necessary.</div><div><br></div><div>As for myself, as someone who has done mostly back-end work but has to produce some minimal but professional looking front-ends, I like Bootstrap. It lets me put up a good-looking website quickly using my basic knowledge of HTML and CSS, without feeling like I have to go back to college to learn a whole new technology. Best of all, it works well with phones and tablets too.</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://getbootstrap.com/";>http://getbootstrap.com/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>That&#39;s just my suggestion. I&#39;m sure someone here is a more experienced web designer than me. I&#39;m more than an amateur, but less than a professional.</div>
<div><br></div><div>bI&#39;reng</div></div></div></div>

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