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[BLU/Officers] CSS style sheet for BLU website



I don't see the changes going from the admin page to listinfo.

On 02/17/2014 02:55 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> It occurred to me that I could embed the listinfo page within another
> page. Turns out the IFRAME tag does this.
>
> I added a new page "mailman.php" that does this, and it worked fine,
> so I replaced the link in the navbar to point to /mailman.php instead
> of /mailman/listinfo.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 2:39 AM, John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com
> <mailto:abreauj at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Well, that was disappointing. I couldn't find any other way to
>     customize Mailman, and it hadn't occurred to me to check the
>     listinfo page under the other domains.
>
>     I backed out the Mailman changes, so the listinfo page is back to
>     its original bland design and is no longer broken for the other
>     domains.
>
>
>
>
>     On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Jerry Feldman
>     <gaf.linux at gmail.com <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Looks like issues when the domain is not BLU.org
>
>         On 02/16/2014 07:45 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>         > It only works on discuss. The other listservs are usable but
>         it looks
>         > terrible
>         >
>         > On 02/15/2014 07:13 PM, John Abreau wrote:
>         >> I've deployed the facelift.
>         >>
>         >> The tricky part was Mailman's listinfo page. The html it
>         produces is
>         >> hard-wired into a python file, htmlformat.py, and I imagine
>         my changes to
>         >> that file wouldn't survive a yum update.
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:39 AM, David Kramer
>         <david at thekramers.net <mailto:david at thekramers.net>> wrote:
>         >>
>         >>> At first I thought it was a better use of space, but when
>         trying to read
>         >>> it, I found it harder to read the upcoming events, which
>         is arguably the
>         >>> most important part of the website.  Putting it in a
>         sidebar like that
>         >>> is a good idea, but the narrowness makes everything wrap
>         too much.
>         >>> Maybe it would be more readable if the date was on one
>         line and the text
>         >>> on the next, so there's a chance it would fit on one line.
>         >>>
>         >>> One minor change I would make is reducing the font on the
>         nav list so it
>         >>> fits in two lines instead of two lines and a bit of a
>         third.  If you're
>         >>> going to go with a fixed-width layout, you might as well
>         take advantage
>         >>> of it by making things line up.
>         >>>
>         >>> Thanks, Jabr!
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>>
>         >>> On 02/15/2014 06:17 AM, John Abreau wrote:
>         >>>> I put together a test page to try  adding CSS to the BLU
>         home page; it's
>         >>> at
>         >>>> http://blu.org/css.php
>         >>>>
>         >>>> Can you guys take a look at it and let me know what you
>         think?
>         >>>>
>         >>>>
>         >>>>
>         >>>>
>         >>>> _______________________________________________
>         >>>> Officers mailing list
>         >>>> Officers at blu.org <mailto:Officers at blu.org>
>         >>>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>         >>> _______________________________________________
>         >>> Officers mailing list
>         >>> Officers at blu.org <mailto:Officers at blu.org>
>         >>> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>         >>>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >>
>         >> _______________________________________________
>         >> Officers mailing list
>         >> Officers at blu.org <mailto:Officers at blu.org>
>         >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/officers
>         >
>         >
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>         > Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com <mailto:gaf.linux at gmail.com>>
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Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com>
Boston Linux and Unix http://www.blu.org
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