transfering the templateRe: [Helpers] FST links - Round 1

Thu May 12 04:27:19 PDT 2005

At 02:51 PM 5/10/2005, you wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- From: "Mystress Angelique Serpent" 
><Mystress at fire-serpent.com>
>To: "FST Helpers list." <Helpers at fire-serpent.org>
>Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:35 AM
>Subject: Re: transfering the templateRe: [Helpers] FST links - Round 1
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>>>>   I think I'm going to have to spend some $$ on dreamweaver and
>>>>photoshop upgrades...
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>>>Which version of the Photoshop do you currently have?
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>>5.0.2
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>I'm using 6.0 which  has some tools and windows are moved round
>since 5. But I remember I was using last version fine. It comes with
>Image Ready, right?

    No. I have photo deluxe, but it is useless.
    For some unknown reason my transparent gif maker in ps5 pooped out too, 
makes the program freeze if I try to use it.
   Thus I have been saving images as max size jpg and opening them in 
paintshoppro7 to reduce them... inefficiently. PSP5 has some handy tools 
though, like an image map maker, and an image slicer that writes the code 
for the mouseovers.. which I edit generously before using!

   I made a psd folder in fscnew and saved the navlink template and some 
other junk in there. Original templates for the green tables, etc. They 
have guidelines to show where they were snipped to pieces, and there is a 
template for the table title tab.

    I think we are going to end up needing a guest essay table too... and a 
"lesson links" navtable gif to replace the one that says "other links."

   I was sifting through the lessons yesterday, having updated them all to 
your template which I tweaked further...finding odd bits that will need 
special handling.  K and genetics lesson has a lengthy newspaper article 
which is integral to the lesson.  I'm not sure how to present it.

   I tend to do things in sections, because the part of my brain that 
writes code is not the same as the part that designs graphics and it can be 
a rusty lever to shift modes.  I try to anticipate everything I'll need 
while making graphics, because once I move into code and then into content 
I have no attention for going backwards to fix graphics... except at the 
end, when I reduce the files I have ended up using and trash the useless. I 
do keep a psd template .. the big layered files of most everything, making 
backups as I go...

   I'll be uploading the new files soon... kinda waiting for Sandra C.'s 
lesson report, (Did I miss an email?)  to delete the remaining 
duplicates.... tweaking things... fixing essay fonts and headers, and 
making my own notes about how I want to change the content of some lessons, 
what the homework will be, etc.

   I've got all the lessons open in homesite, and I keep shuffling through 
them as I repair tiny dumb stuff like how the "next" button spacing and 
horizontal alignment didn't match the others... turned out to be an extra 
space, broken line of code. Two different ones, ...  A way of expanding my 
brain to encompass the course, as a whole.

   That is the thing... my mind is moving into the content, now and the 
hyperfocus of that means I need to pass the remaining code tweaking onto 
helpers.

    I said I could not comprehend it all, the whole of the course content, 
at once... and at the time I said it, it was true, coz I was in coding mode...
   I can hold all the lessons in my mind and know them, in a weird 
Shakti-fired hyperfocus holistic trance, but I cannot sustain it for long 
and will forget, after it passes.

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>>Could you redo
>>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/titltable.html
>>make sure all its bits are now gifs and convert any files as needed.
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>Done.

   Thanks!

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>>While you are at it, can you expand it to the same size as the
>>essays table,
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>I have set the width of the table to 95% which is the same
>setting as Essay table.

   Good.

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>>and make a second version for the tantra subdirectory?
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>I wasn't sure what exactly you would like me to do here...
>But, I assume that you would like to have titletable.html in
>fscnew folder and fscnew/tantra folder as well?

   Yes!

>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/01_titltable.html
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/012_titltable.html

   perfect. They are just code snippets, really.. copy and paste them where 
I need them to hold odd bits of info.

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>>  Also... I need a template file for the popup windows.
>>   Can you copy the tiny lesson links box into a new file, and resize
>>it to fit neatly into the popup windows we will make for them? Make
>>an off site links popup page template...
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>>   Make one of the quotes box, too... the too-long song from the
>>matriarchy lesson, and the long quote from K and genetics can go
>>into a quote popup.
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>Since I don't know exact setting for the popup window, I have set
>the table with as 450 pixel which might be too big if there is scroll
>bar.
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>If you give me the feature setting (tool bar, status bar, scroll bar etc)
>then I can adjust it for you or you can do it in a way you like.

   We will need a scroll bar, for longer content,  but the rest I dunno... 
I think clean and simple is best, for a popup.
    Do what you feel will work and look best. My only experience with 
popups are the realplayer and audio windows in the course, and  did not 
make the template.

>The files are here
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/links/001_plink_template.html
>http://www.fire-serpent.org/fscnew/tantra/quotes/001_quotes_template.html

   Perfect!  I have decided to put the popup links folder into the main 
directory, because they will help our search engine listings and generate 
reciprocal links.
   I don't want a subdirectory for the quotes popups. I'm thinking ahead to 
when I must covert all this to CD... a simple file structure is better.
   There are only a few files that will use the quotes template and they 
will be named similar to the lesson they belong to with a _q at the end.

   I'm pretty sure the spacing thing is on your end. Your popup template 
looks like this:

<!-- Link table start here-->
<table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" 
bgcolor="#009999">
   <tr>
     <td width="12" height="30"><img src="../../titles/ltopcorners.gif" 
width="12" height="30" border="0" alt="right corner"></td>
     <td background="../../titles/topbars.gif" width="429" height="30" 
align="right"><img src="../../titles/lessonlink.gif" width="153" 
height="31" border="0" alt="Links related to this lesson."></td>
     <td width="11" height="30" align="right"><img 
src="../../titles/rtopcornerst.gif" width="11" height="31" border="0" 
alt="right corner"></td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td width="12" background="../../titles/lsides.gif"><img 
src="../../titles/lsides.gif" width="12" height="9" border="0" alt="Left 
side."></td>
     <td><!---OFF SITE LINKS contents start here --->

   With the tabledata indented and scattered one tag per line. I think it 
might be something in the settings that "beautfiy"ies the code while 
opening or saving the file.
   I compress it to long lines, like this:

<!-- Link table start here-->
<table width="450" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" 
bgcolor="#009999"><tr><td width="12" height="30"><img 
src="../titles/ltopcorners.gif" width="12" height="30" border="0" 
alt="right corner"></td><td background="../titles/topbars.gif" width="429" 
height="30" align="right"><img src="../titles/lessonlink.gif" width="153" 
height="30" border="0" alt="Links related to this lesson."></td><td 
width="11" height="30" align="right"><img src="../titles/rtopcornerst.gif" 
width="11" height="30" border="0" alt="right corner"></td></tr><tr><td 
width="12" background="../titles/lsides.gif"><img 
src="../titles/lsides.gif" width="12" height="9" border="0" alt="Left 
side."></td>
<td><!---OFF SITE LINKS contents start here --->

   To save space, prevent table errors and get the code tucked away into 
tidy chunks separate from  the content. As you can see, I already changed 
the links for its new location. It is in the new links directory labeled 
1linkform_p.html

   Blessings!