[Helpers] please review this new page, (some Questions)

Wed Apr 20 05:30:55 PDT 2005

At 03:53 AM 4/20/2005, you wrote:
>Hi.
>
>So... I have checked the new FST "Introduction to Kundalini" page and
>did major organizing and cleanup.
>
>It took about 4 hours....

   It will take less, with direction.

>Over all, I think this page is to heavy. I have ADSL and still have to wait
>a few second. I can't imagine how long it'll take to download with modem.
>
>I think you are right about the roll over. I think those roll over images
>are taking a lot to download.

   Yup. On the plus side, they are the same on every page and so only need 
to load once, then they are cached.
   We could delete the "onclick" purple and cut it by 1/3.

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>1.There were some fragment of the tags that needs to be either closed
>or deleted..
>
>2. Fragment of the tag that was messing up the Links at the bottom,
>which wasn't showing up before. I wasn't sure either you would like to
>commented out or comment tag was messing those links.

    The links are in the wrong place. They need to be dragged and dropped 
into the "lesson links" box DADADA and have their font style changed.

    Not sure if i will keep the cute cobra, I like it for lists but  I 
think it will make the tiny off site links box, a bit crowded.

    What I got stuck on in the preview, was refining the lesson template so 
I could make the free preview lessons match. I realized I had to move onto 
the course itself, get that template perfect through testing it with actual 
lessons, then reverse engineer it for the preview lessons.
   Intro to K is one of the lessons that will be in the preview... :)

>Let me know if you want those link to be there or not.
>
>3.Table for the footer at the bottom of the page wasn't completed.
>There was missing <table><tr><td>tag to start the table.

   not missing... it is a continuation of the top table. Makes all the 
mouseovers line up straight.
    There is a big table to hold the overall structure of the page, 
including the footer, with many nested tables within it for the text boxes.
   See http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/1mainform.html

   If you need to see the structure, reset the table borders to 1.

   I know there is a complete template for the lesson pages, not sure how i 
missed uploading it.

>Right now I recreated the table to fit closer to what I thought you
>might be trying to achieve. Because beginning of this table was missing,
>it was hard to figure out how many rows and cols ware there.

    Yup, I can imagine... No worries, it only has to be right once, then 
the footers  all become a server side include. I leave the SSI till last so 
I can see how the pages look on my hard drive.

   Somewhere on one of the pages, is an even more correct footer.
   I do not recall how I made the "bookmark this page" link not show up 
dark visited purple... but I know I did fix it!   I just didn't translate 
it to all the pages because the footers would be deleted anyhow.

   In fact, it probably already is an include...
    foot.html or foot1.html?

>I can probably help alter it in a way you like later.
>
>4. I also, reduced the quality of the earth image at the bottom, and logo
>on left top to reduce the file size. I don't think you can even tell the
>difference.

   I can tell with the logo... I know that art *very* well... but it has to 
be done.

     Mind you, you can shrink the mouseovers all you want! Make them all 
smaller, even... They came out a little larger than I intended.

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>I think we should get the layout correct first in order to create a
>template.

   There is a template already done. I just have to find it.

    I did the update so far using search and replace, taking out chunks of 
old code and replacing new.
   Some stuff would not work like that, such as the old audio and video 
links, the lesson title which was also a video link, and the off site 
links. I left the stuff where it was, so I could drag and drop it to the 
right location, page by page by hand. They are javascript...

    I knew I would have to go through every page and tweak it... I really 
wasn't looking forward to it! LOL!!  Having somebody else do it so I can 
focus on the content is beautiful!!

    I preserved the audio and video links in the header, so I could copy 
and paste those links into their new location in the navtable, before 
deleting the stuff.

    The old lesson title gifs, experiences gifs, barzap.gif, etc. are all 
discarded.

    That area beside the logo will hold the name and number of the lesson, 
in the same font style as on the preview pages, plus smaller text links to 
the audio and video...
   the exact design of that part I have not worked out precisely, yet... 
because the number of words in each lesson title varies so much!
    I figured I would sort it out as I go...

    The lesson numbers are not sorted yet.   I will be adding a few new 
lessons, and I wait to hear if all the lessons are linked in order properly 
as-is, to decide where the new lessons will  go. I was thinking of 
rearranging some pages, too. Open to suggestions?

   I want to add a lesson on Amrita, and one on alternate clearing methods, 
like the violet flame.

   I really wish I knew at what point people drop out of the course. There 
are few graduates...

>  Once it's done, then we (who ever would like to help) can
>divide the site and each can work on putting contents by copy&paste.

   Yeah, fixing the template of each page is mostly a bit of drag and drop, 
then deleting the leftovers.

>It's good thing that you are re-designing the site! It makes our job easier.

   Really? Cool! :)

>It's gonna be cool!! Let's get the template done!
>
>So, there is the file that I fixed.
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/25introk_sachiko.html
>
>I worked from this file
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/25introk_18-12-03.html
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>Question!!!!
>
>Is this page's footer the one you would like?
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/24hspell_18-12-03.html

   Yes! You may find some are perfect like that, and with others, something 
went wrong with search and replace, and I think it is a stray bit of code 
leftover from the off site links... like on the Kintro page.

    I did not worry about it because the footers for all the lessons are 
identical and everything below the previous and next arrows will become an 
SSI page.  Same with the navbar, below the audio and video links.
   I notice on that page there is something funky about the spacing of the 
previous and next arrows... probably a misplaced &nbsp; No big, it will 
probably disappear when the old page title gift is deleted.

   Excellent work! Thank you!

>Sachiko