User talk:J. Shaun Lott

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Revision as of 21:28, 15 July 2008

Welcome to Proteopedia! We hope you will contribute much and well. You will probably want to read the help pages. Again, welcome and have fun! Eran Hodis 16:44, 30 May 2008 (IDT)

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Your new page looks great, and I'm sure will be very helpful for your course. May I suggest something? If you notice, the "Proteopedia Page Contributors and Editors" section is right next to the 2nd applet on the page. Perhaps you'd like that section to be pushed down all the way to the bottom. Try this: insert, as the last line in the page, the text {{Clear}} (i.e. the word Clear with 2 curly brackets on either side). Save the page and you should find that the contributors section has been pushed to a more aesthetically pleasing location at the bottom of the page instead of encroaching on your 2nd applet. If you ever need to separate 2 sections, just use this clearing syntax.

Best, Eran Hodis 15:51, 15 July 2008 (IDT)

Hi Eran

Thanks for taking an interest! This is my first experiment at transferring teaching material from sPDBv to Proteopedia, and my first impression is that it will work very well, especially for courses like this: large classes, with mixed computational ability. All the time spent learning how to use the program has disappeared, and one can focus on content. The end result will be that more content goes in, which can only be good. Thanks for the formatting suggestions - I'm not done yet so I'll certainly try incorporating them. I think I still have my reservations about Jmol, which are in some degree at least down to aesthetics. For instance, can one increase the thickness rather than the width of sheets and helices so that they don't appear paper-thin? I think my wish-list from Erice is still true: would be great to have the applet launch in a stand-alone window for instance, and I find the 'control panel' window of sPDBv very useful and so something like it would be great too.

cheers J. Shaun Lott