design
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Weekly summary, Apr 25-May 1 2024
This week, I have been looking at four separate issues: layout/presentation, integration of TTS engines, images, and multi-word expressions. Layout/presentation Branislav, Cathy and I had a productive session where we fixed many small problems and made C-LARA look substantially nicer. This is described in more detail in an earlier post. Integrating TTS engines I’ve added Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 5)
I spent several hours yesterday working with Branislav, Cathy and the AI to do another round of cleaning up C-LARA’s presentation. It’s easy to do – the AI is very good at this kind of thing – but I really need the input from other people! Since I’m the one who’s closest to the code, Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 4)
C-LARA still needs several more rounds of cleaning up before we can feel satisfied with its appearance. After discussing with Cathy and the AI, we’ve taken another step and added a more useful home page. When you next log in, you’ll see something like this: where you’re presented with summaries of recently added content and Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 3)
More progress on layout and formatting… Right-to-left languages As Chadi pointed out yesterday, rendering in right-to-left languages was seriously broken. Chat and I have done the following: As far as I can tell, things are now working – but I have no feeling at all for RTL languages, so please let me know if further Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA (part 2)
Pauline had some useful suggestions about further cleaning up of the C-LARA layout. My replies in italics: Logo 1 Logo 2 Logo 3 Keep those suggestions coming! Continue reading
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Cleaning up C-LARA
As many people have said, C-LARA’s appearance so far leaves a great deal to be desired. It lacks the styling typical of modern web apps. I have been holding off on addressing these issues, since I thought it was more important to get the functionality in place first. But now that the functionality seems to Continue reading
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Design
So far, no attempt has been made to create a good visual design for C-LARA. Members of the project who are sensitive to these matters (you know who you are) have not been slow to point out that the prototype looks really ugly. I agree with the critics, they are right. But there was a Continue reading
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