Gary Van Domselaar wrote: > > > I don't think the menu area color (robin's egg?) matches the > > background though. > > Oh i know.. I'll make something nicer looking as things progress. BTW, you probably noticed that I have a different background for each page. The way I put the text in a white table in the middle of the page allows us to use any busy pattern for the background around it. The effect is rather like a window on a computer desktop. I was wondering if we could have a randomly selected background. Perhaps PHP can do this? Also, I am a bit fond of the "cartoon" theme I was starting with but didn't quite implement. Check out the PyGTools page: http://bioinformatics.org/pygtools/ See how the black outlines make it look a little cartoony? I just needed to make some more drawings. Something to think about. But since you're doing the work, you have the say. > > BTW, did you catch the <htnews> tag that goes in the body? > > The news program actually generates index.shtml from index.template. <htnews> > > goes in index.template. > > My design proposal for the pages is to use php to create a shell file. The file > will "include" the header (logo, background image, etc.) from a standard file. > The Menu will be generated dynamically from a php script (using catalog > information included in each individual web page) and placed into the menu table, > which can be on the right or left. The main text will again be grabbed from a > file, so if i grab index.shtml, which is generated from index.template using (what > news proggy are you using?), the most recently generated index.shtml will always > appear in the main panel. The program is Htnews: http://www.daemon.de/software.html I can specify a "input/template" file and an "output" file; it doesn't matter what they are called. Check out the /etc/htnews-* files on the system. So whatever you want to "grab" the main text from, we can specify that as the output file, which will come from a template file. It doesn't have to be named the way it is now. > Im making use of cascading style sheets to format the web pages, so once we have a > nice looking template page, applying the style to the existing pages should be a > snap. Good. I hope I can follow all the new additions :-) Cheers. Jeff -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+