Good first try @SCMatt ! I like the domain-name.
Still a bit of work to do I guess but the basic first layout is there.
You might want to think about the scope of your project: what exactly do you want to put on there and what do you want to achieve? There are many Dhamma teachers and many Dhamma books. Do you want to focus on just one or a few or do you want a much broader spectrum? How will your provide a structure and how do you want people to be able to navigate your site? Will you also feature articles, videos, classes etc.?
With regards to the layout, one thing I noticed straight away is that the pictures in the first section are not centered under their titles, but in the subsequent sections they are. I think you will find that if you make them display “block” instead of “inline-block” that problem will disappear.
The thing with HTML/CSS, it’s simple to get things working pretty okay most of the time, but hard to get it 100% right all the time. But if you start with clear, semantic HTML, the basics will work fine, the rest is just details.
I diverted myself with some coding, and made a revised layout.
100% semantic HTML5
no inline styles
no resets, dependencies or whatever: you don’t need them.
responsive goodness brought to you by display:inline-block.
Ayya @Vimala, regarding scope I’d like it to be as thorough as possible. By the domain name though I’ve already kinda limited it to books, and at that only those under Creative Commons type of shareability/non-commerciality. Maybe I could use some other domains to host classes and other categories, then just link to them from the dhammabooks site? The other option would be to make the main domain a bit broader, and just make sub-sections for that site.
I think your solution would have worked if bhante didn’t step in to demolish and renovate the whole thing haha.
Bhante @sujato , woah thank you! This is a lot better.
Yea, better images would help.
Any recommendations on other Buddhist authors who release books under CC? What do you think about the site structure? Specifically for linking, these look kinda ugly (but they contain the full uri for the source file):
Here is a set of full sized images for the front covers of the Santipada books. If these are suitable, let me know and I will see if I can locate the others, too.
FYI, these covers, with the exception of Dreams of Bhadda, were originally sized at my preferred ratio of 2:3, which I would like to keep if possible.
These images are at 300dpi, but heavily jpg compressed. If you need them to be smaller, i would suggest rescaling them rather than additional compression, as artefacts are already starting to appear.
My long term plan had been to create a new site for these books, which would include online HTML files. I see you’ve already done that with the Satipatthana Mula. I wonder whether you’d be interested to expand the project to include this as well? What I am looking for is a long-term, stable static site. Originally I put everything on Wordpress, which in retrospect was a bad mistake. For something like this, just plain HTML/CSS is much better, with JS for plugins if needed.
Anyway, let me know if you would be interested to work on something like this. I should warn you, I have strong opinions about websites, which, if you don’t mind seriously NSFW language, agree with those expressed here.
I know, I’m used to that! The things I have to deal with around here …
I know that too … : Made via txti.es:
Wish we could do SC that way. Forget about python, ninja2, javascript, css … just plain and simple html. </sarcasm>
Another reason I wanted to know your scope is regarding the discussion about Authenticity. I would like to make a page which also includes the classes on video, slides, etc. but at the moment am struggling with time (somebody here keeping me very busy with python, jinja2, javascript and css) and also that Samita only has 5GB memory due to some (political) issues that I need to solve first.
No, you’re right, all pages should define charset as utf8. This bug appears because Chrome will display utf8 by default, while FF (and maybe others) don’t, so it can look fine to one person and messed up to another.
Bhikkhu Anālayo’s writings are now available at this url: https://dhammabooks.online/analayo/
It’s just a directory index right now, I find the format easier than hunting something down on the Universitat Hamburg site.
