Transition Technology: Ticket #318: Ingredients and stages changes

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ed — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:22:35 GMT

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jim — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:17:29 GMT

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My expando-contracty dohicky is in SVN pending update.
Pic bigger, better and erm... those other things you wanted.
Done, but styled how? You mentioned that different stages = colours so what are they? Had to muck about with the image (which is not present on DEV) to make it look ok - see: https://www.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients/starting/inclusion-and-diversity
as per 3 - tell me what colours go with what stages for https://www.transitionnetwork.org/stages - for each stage homepage the CSS will need work to get this to happen... It's a mess in there and no easy way to apply site styling without the specifics we already have in place...
'Change views output for dates'? What, remove the date, change the format?
a: done first, but as 3 and 4, need to know the colours per stage.
b: as 6a
c: lists now bullets, were already by number
Please open a separate ticket for the homepage stuff - this is gonna need a bunch of to/fro and poss Laura's input.
As 7, please open separate homepage ticket -- many of these changes will need a chat first, also fit in with HP stuff on Stories ticket.
If you have the graphics, send em over, otherwise this is a Laura job for another day
Need a chat about curation/moderation approach and process... this sounds like a webform thing but not sure.
Erm, pictures are already scaled and cropped to a standard size -- the module is called 'ImageCache?' and it's been rocking with us since day 1.
Ed knows how to do this, we added a 'some stuff' custom text block during our Panel knowledge-slam.

Passing to the Mitchell for cogitation and feedback.

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jim — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:28:19 GMT

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Note due to Trac's odd numbered list maker, 6, 7 and 8 are all 6 in the spec and 7 is 9... I've updated the spec to match.

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ed — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 10:47:04 GMT

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OK
OK
the styles are outlined by Laura - see DEV here: https://dev.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients and Ed will email Laura's style guide - for now:

starting title: jade_dark ingredients by stage: jade_bg deepening title: blue_dark ingredients by stage: blue_bg connecting title: gold_dark ingredients stage: gold_bg building title: red_dark ingredients by stage: red_bg daring to dream title: purple_dark ingredients by stage: purple_bg

If it's tricky to do colours, for now just the lists need to be hatched, with bullets etc. like the /theme pages
Err... remove the time for now - it was a Laura thing

6-9. see colours in 3 10-11: fair enough 12: Yes - I'll ask rob about it 13: Ed to double check with portrait and landscape images

Great

ed — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:49:14 GMT

actually - this one is a jim job:

Add a 'Featured ingredient' pane on HP - either just below header image, or the four block - span of two square regions - to include a grab of the photo, title, and maybe challenge...

jim — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 19:55:01 GMT

1: expando-contracto collapsible div now in SVN and on DEV - see https://dev.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients/starting/jims-test-ingredient and click the Full Description... Completely unstyled, how do you want it to look?

ed — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:20:53 GMT

it's very nice and will make the individual ingredients page very sexy, but not what was requested which was:

/ingredients homepage: enable 'expand/contract' section feature. set sections to expanded by default IE: to enable users to expand and collapse the sections on the ingredients homepage.. (apols if it wasn't clear...)

jim — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:53:22 GMT

1: I just put it there as a tester for you... Can expand/contact those blocks no worries, but will need thoughts on how it looks... Could possibly just use stage colour blocks and see how it hangs together... Will revisit when more pressing issues are done.

ed — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:07:27 GMT

Good. We should have a skype about it, it's getting fiddly. we need action for my meet on tuesday 27th. i can skype thursday 22 or monday 26th...the homepage set up is here from original brief:

...Title in dark colour
...Stage description on lighter background block below
...ingredients set in bulleted list, indented, ordered as numbers

ed — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:02:41 GMT

note after call 22/9:

/ingredients homepage colouring understood
individual ing items to take colour from css styles - JK to sort
pictures - JK to set thumbnail settings so that portrait pictures are the same relative size as the landscape ones (ie a portait image is not stuffed into the same height as a landscape image)

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jim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:29:15 GMT

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Just added colouring to 1st stage - https://www.transitionnetwork.org/ingredients

please confirm this is ok, or tell me what needs changing. Copying dev not possible because DEV didn't have intro blurb for each stage.

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jim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:29:57 GMT

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Hmmm.. added colours to all, top one is 2 blocks which looks good but won't support the expando-thing... Will revisit after that's available to Panels.

Any comments/thoughts in the mean time?

Key issues is title link goes to section, but title will need to open/close expander.

So 2 block approach (title pane, rest in another pane) means only second part expandble, after some intro text for that stage. Clickable expando-bit will need to be the ingredient intro text itself.

But 1 block approach (all in same pane) means link to stage will need to be moved elsewhere to avoid expander handle 'covering' it up and making it unclickable since that toggles the expandedness -- hence link to stage page (not ingredients) might need to be AFTER blurb...

ed — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:23:22 GMT

it's looking nice.

the best option is as per starting - with title block in dark header, and blurb and list in separate, lighter block. but needs a gap before the next stage title. the second section being expandable is fine. make the header the link to stage homepage, and use intro text as expandable link which would open up to the list of ingredients.

good to have the sections separated (1 and 5 are good, the others have no gap between them)

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jim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:39:25 GMT

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All same now and as requested. Will revisit after SVN updates occur (probably tonight) to add expano-ness.

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jim — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:56:46 GMT

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3 & 4: done per #330 6, 7 & 8: Done per #346 12: is another ticket #322 so that's not for here 13: Image now uses 'preview-normal' preset, which maintains aspect ration and limits to one of 360 wide by 400 high.

This is all done it appears? Slamming it shut, optimistically!