[NBP web-reskin] Re: POC Status on the Homepage

Wed Jan 13 21:17:11 EST 2010

Hi All,

This is the first "real" attempt at integrating the (4) new templates and
the homepage content. I think we are making progress.

First off are we all clear on where images for homepage are going to be
located and how the @ sign is used in ITL to provide the path?

As Edie taught us, all .html pages have to start by referencing a template
like this used in index.html and index2.html for Camp29:

@_TITLE_@

Here are the (4) high level directory paths we need to be concerned with and
it's the @ sign in ITL that gets us there:

HTML pages - catalogs/nbp/pages

Templates -  catalogs/nbp/templates/regions

Images - htdocs/nbp/images

CSS files - htdocs/nbp

Also please remember that Edie has been modifying the directory structure to
better organize the files for the new web site. She has documented these
changes in /home/fidelity_camp/productionfiles/Content_Matrix.xls. Please
refer to it.

So when doing offline development and testing of a page or template, it is
important to take in consideration the path names.

In addition I would like to bring the ITL [area] tag back into the
conversation soon.

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From: web-reskin-bounces at nbp.org [mailto:web-reskin-bounces at nbp.org] On
Behalf Of Richard Ward
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:13 PM
To: Discussions regarding the 2009 UI reskin of nbp.org
Subject: [NBP web-reskin] Re: POC Status on the Homepage

Okay - the rotating image wasn't crashing.  The image files were missing so
I copied them over.  I also updated the JavaScript code in the templates
because they had the wrong URL to the images.

However the page renders really badly so I think that is the next step.  I'm
not sure if the issue is when the code was converted over to the interchange
templates or if there is a problem with the native code.  I'm not sure how
much more time I'm going to get to spend on this tonight but I think there
is a lot of work still to do and I think for me it will probably have to
wait until the weekend.

Steve - not sure if you can shed any light on the issue.  I forget if we
ever had the native code all working as one big happy page, including the
rotating images etc. I have a feeling we never did combine them all and I
think that might have been a mistake on our part.  I think the next step
should be to go back to the individual HTML pieces and combine them into one
regular html page and see if we can get that working.  Then I think we can
look at breaking them apart again and making the interchange templates.  I
think until we can prove that our pieces all work together nicely in a
regular HTML page we should hold off on the interchange conversion work.

Steve - I have updated the following template files on camp29: MENU_BAR,
TITLE and TOP_BANNER

What are everyone else's views on this?  I don't mind trying to combine
everything together over the weekend into a working HTML page.  Once that's
working fine I can break it up again and pass the pieces onto Steve to
rebuild into templates.

Steve - do you still have time to help out on this or should we pickup the
interchange part ourselves now?  

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Ward, Richard <richard.ward at fmr.com> wrote:

If you do a search on "rotateimage(0)".  You will see it's being executed
twice in the page.  This is probably causing the issue.

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From: Ward, Richard 
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:19 PM
To: 'Steve DiDomenico'; Patel, Komal
Cc: Prabhakar, V

Subject: RE: POC Status on the Homepage

Another issue might be that the menu code is in the page twice.  I did a
view source and I see it in the HEAD section as well as down in the BODY.

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From: Steve DiDomenico [mailto:swdidomenico at comcast.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 6:05 PM
To: Patel, Komal
Cc: Ward, Richard; Prabhakar, V
Subject: RE: POC Status on the Homepage

Okay, thanks.

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From: Patel, Komal [mailto:komal.patel at fmr.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:42 AM
To: Steve DiDomenico
Cc: Ward, Richard; Prabhakar, V
Subject: RE: POC Status on the Homepage

thanks Steve,

Looks like rotatImage(0) onload javascript might be causing problem... We
need to go back and look at the template. I will take look at template.

Thanks

Komal

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From: Steve DiDomenico [mailto:swdidomenico at comcast.net] 
Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 10:26 PM
To: Patel, Komal; Ward, Richard; Prabhakar, V
Subject: POC Status on the Homepage

Hi Guys,

I have pieced together the homepage page using Komal's template changes from
12/10.

Here is the page using a version of master.css that contains all the Style
Sheet code and all (4) of our templates TITLE, MENU_BAR, TOP_BANNER, and
FOOTER.

http://29.camp.nbp.temphost.net:9029/ic/nbp/index2.html

Komal, I see how your template works when in page
/home/fidelity_camp/camp30/mychanges/Top_Banner.html. I'm not sure why it's
doing what it's doing.  I put the JavaScript "rotateImage(0);" in the
template TITLE was we talked about. Also I think the Style Sheets in
TOP_BANNER are different than the ones in master.css.  I ran a test and
removed the Style Sheets from TOP_BANNER and the page really got out of
alignment. This is not the version that is currently running.

Right now TITLE, MENU_BAR, and TOP_BANNER all have the Style Sheet code both
in the template and in master.css.

Next I'm going to test Template TITLE and MENU_BAR with StylesNew.css and
MenuBar.css removed.

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