Talk:Welcome
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Added the SiteLinks template to replace the site links and make it a simple matter to include them on every page, thereby eliminating orphaned pages.---- Larry 21:56, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
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What happened to the Call Sign Lookup?
I really liked the call sign look up dialogue box, yet it has been removed. This was a very nice touch and we should consider adding back in.
Regards,
Vincent
Reworked the SiteLinks template css
After seeing the wiki on the big screen at the club meeting, there were a couple of issues with regard to the appearance of the SiteLinks block. It was being viewed on a Windows computer.
My choice of font size caused an overflow of text beyond the borders of the box. This was not the case on my computer with a different set of fonts available.
Also, the serif font I was seeing in use didn't lend itself to the easiest read. I would prefer a monospace sans serif font over a monospace serif font in many cases. There are a few letters that need a serif appearance to be able to tell one from another. An example is "Chicago, |||," where the first | os a capital I and the remaining two are lowercase L's. I also have trouble with some sans serif fonts that crowd the narrow letters like the lowercase L or the capital I so tightly together that they get lost in the reading.
By avoiding sans serif font styles that get too crowded together, I tend to prefer sans serif fonts on screen.
What I did
I placed an overflow: auto into the css for all article-content-located <pre> tags, which are used whenever the following is applied:
* indented asterisk causes MediaWiki to generate preformatted text, typically displayed with a monospace font.
I changed the font-family to sans serif for the <pre> tags found in SiteLinks template. This made for a much nicer looking link text, but fouled up the even spacing created by using a monospace font.---- Larry 06:50, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Reworked the banner
The flag was a nice added touch, but it made for a lot of wasted soace in the bottom of the banner to our right, so I removed it and made a new row, and added it along with the Daily Events Planner. And with the rework of the banner, I incorporated the callsign lookup, which I removed temporarily while I fiddled with its appearance.---- Larry 11:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
While we're at it, I fouled up the works...
I thought we had a corrupt something somewhere, but all it was was that I added CSS to the Textarea tag, and that caused the edit window to no more scroll to the end of a page!
Solution was to be more specific about which textarea I want to apply this code to, by using a div and id.
<div id="stringvalue"> ... </div> HTML
#stringvalue
{ CSS
overflow: hidden;
}---- Larry 11:04, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
Got rid of the "Main Page" heading
I added a div surrounding the Banner on the Main Page. The style assigned to the div colors its background white, extends its width to 100% of the page width and raised the top of the page by 50 pixels, so that it overlaps the Main Page heading. Then I padded the div with 50 pixels padding to push the Banner down 50 pixels.
The result is that the banner is in its original position, but the white-colored div overlaps the heading. I then used the position:relative and z-index to layer the white div in front of the Main Page heading, thus hiding it.
Several edits of the main page this morning before I realized I wasn't getting any effect with my settings because there was an omission of a needed quote mark.---- Larry 14:02, 5 November 2009 (UTC)