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[Smile4ever <smile4ever@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If the website is ready, can you host the source on GitHub? :D +1 for using plain HTML/CSS and a little bit PHP ;)

Kind regards,
Geoffrey De Belie / Smile4ever

---- Aan zo, 19 jan 2014 14:49:24 +0100 William<william@xxxxxxxxxx> schreef ---- 

 > I appreciate your comment. I am aware that the code is a bit ugly at the  
 > moment. I was feeling pressure to get something, anything out the door  
 > as a working demo. It's not that I can't do CSS, it was faster for me to  
 > say "screw it" and use tables here and there - being old school it was  
 > faster for me. But I do intend to comb over it, re-implementing it an a  
 > more HTML 5 standard way. I will even likely incorporate some of your  
 > advice. But at the moment it is functional enough that if had to put out  
 > our first release tomorrow, we could fill the pages with content and it  
 > would work. 
 >  
 > In hindsight, I think the pressure I felt I was under was imagined. 
 >  
 >  
 > On 01/18/2014 11:12 AM, Israel wrote: 
 > > On 01/18/2014 09:58 AM, William wrote: 
 > >> The website so far. Pardon the graininess of the top left logo. I  
 > >> woke up early with an idea that led to a series of major overhauls  
 > >> and I was burnt out by the time I got that far. But as promised, I am  
 > >> putting this up today. You will also notice the text in the  
 > >> navigation is slightly out of alignment. Perfectly fixable, but I  
 > >> wanted to get this up while I had the chance since I'm sure if I will  
 > >> be around to mess with it anymore today. 
 > >> 
 > >> All of the pages currently have the same content. Real content,  
 > >> especially for the front page, is on the way - I just needed a place  
 > >> holder. Also pardon the Latin placeholder text. 
 > >> 
 > >> All of the items in the navigation are placeholders. While a few of  
 > >> them are a must, we need to determine what sub pages we actually  
 > >> need. This will determine the actual content that needs developed. 
 > >> 
 > >> I have tested the site in Chrome, Firefox, and Midori at  
 > >> 1600x900(16:9), 1280x1024(5:4) and 1280x960(4:3) 
 > >> 
 > >> As it stands, the navigation vertically stacks itself if the window  
 > >> becomes to small. 
 > >> 
 > >> Keep in mind: 
 > >> 
 > >> We also have a documentation wiki at wiki.torios.org and a forum at  
 > >> forums.torios.org/index.php. If we are going to be using the forums I  
 > >> am not yet sure if I am going to create a but as an external link up  
 > >> with the social media icons, or directly integrate it into the  
 > >> website, and therefor navigation. If we go with the forums we will  
 > >> need moderators. 
 > >> 
 > >> Here you go: 
 > >> 
 > >> http://www.torios.org/test/demo/index.html 
 > >> 
 > >> 
 > > The text in the table doesn't scale when on smaller sizes. 
 > > You should fix that in the CSS.... (though I personally don't like  
 > > tables... I usually use height/width percentages for divs and float:  
 > > left; ) 
 > > Since I don't like tables, I would have done the list as CSS buttons  
 > > in an anchor.  And done some a:hover{//color effect} 
 > > It also seems better to me to use responsive techniques in the padding  
 > > and font size.  (i.e padding: 2% 2% 1% 1%; font-size: large;) 
 > > Of course you need to make it work for IE also, so you may already  
 > > have a plan to do this stuff.... 
 > > Unless you are using something for mobiles instead.  If you are doing  
 > > it you should also include the scalable part: 
 > > 
 > > <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0,  
 > > maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes" /> 
 > > 
 > > And maybe the: 
 > > <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144"  
 > > href="apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png"> 
 > > and 
 > > <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"  
 > > href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png"> 
 > > types for the mobile users. 
 > > 
 > > Also, I think using SVG would be better than png for web graphics,  
 > > though again there are those browser caveats like Opera Mini, the ever  
 > > problematic IE, etc... 
 > > 
 > > There is also modernizer, that you may also be planning to implement  
 > > in the future... 
 > > 
 > > I am sure you are already thinking about these things, and getting  
 > > ready to implement it, so I am not trying to point out the obvious.  
 > > Just gave you my few quick thoughts...  Oh and sharethis.com has a  
 > > nice social media script that also lets you gather some info back  
 > > about the traffic statistics though you may prefer to use your own  
 > > stuff :) 
 > > Sorry my e-mail is so nit-picky, I know you just made this and the  
 > > overall design looks great.  I like the colors you used, and the way  
 > > you laid everything out.  So just take my blurb with a grain of salt  
 > > as you obviously know what you are doing and made it look great! 
 > > 
 >  
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