Emails and making plans. Checked and prepped some CSS stuff for Chuck. I also made some small fixes for Cory. Anyways, getting back to the CSS stuff, I sent Chuck an email with a small challenge to see if we could update the existing classes to make them look more modern. Here is some of what I sent Chuck in an email.

Chuck,

Good afternoon. I'm just playing with some ideas... I've got a challenge for you. Back in the day we only had the classic version of the site. So, to get more options, I wanted to run a contest to see if anybody could come up with a new design. Russell came up with 5 new design options. They all look totally different but are based on the same raw HTML code. Only the CSS code changes. I'm wondering if we could make some bigger, global changes for snow owl so that we didn't have to rewrite every page. I'm thinking ROI and bang for the buck. Basically, can we make some global changes to the existing CSS that would make everything have a more up to date look.

Here is a link to a page that has some of the old stuff.

https://data0.adilas.biz/css/index.cfm - The page is totally static (fake data) and most of the buttons and links are just dummy links. Some of the buttons do work and interact with the pages. If you right click and view the page source, I have the rules for the game (old ones). The page is also inside of Git and Bit Bucket and part of our code repo, if you want to play around.

Anyways, I would be interested to see what this might look like for a generic snow owl theme. That currently doesn't exist on that page. I would be interested to see what it would look like and what improvements we could make globally vs page by page. Basically, tie into the cascade part of CSS. If you want more information, I could help.

Here is the help file for that page. It has links to all of the different versions that Russell setup. If you view them, scroll from top to bottom to see how they interact with all of the existing CSS. At the time, every known class was and/or is represented on the page. I would love to get some newer more modern look and feel pieces tied into the older classes that already exist inside the system. By way of a challenge, I'm just wondering if we used the older CSS classes and just updated that, what would it look like for the new snow owl theme.

https://data0.adilas.biz/top_secret/help.cfm?id=497&pwd=css

Anyways, I'm interested in seeing what it might look like. Would you be up for the challenge? Just tossing around ideas... Thanks Chuck!