{ "id": "v1-te-8b33-dc", "long_id": "v1.table-era-90s.docs.s08.p11.t03.u03.dc", "name": "Table-era department site, 1997", "era": { "slug": "table-era-90s", "code": "te", "name": "Table-era web", "years": [ 1996, 2000 ], "description": "The first commercial web, 1996 to 2000: narrow fixed pages built from tables, blue underlined links on white or grey, Times and Arial at their default sizes, bevelled form buttons, and flat colour strips where a designer wanted emphasis." }, "archetype": "docs", "mode": "mix", "viewport": { "width": 800, "fluid": false }, "density": "compact", "summary": "The pages of a university department, a library or a public institution as built between 1996 and 2000: a 700px sheet centred in an 800px window, a serif letterhead over one filled line of links, and a front page that is a table of contents, each row a coloured label cell with a sentence and its links beside it. Text is 13px Arial with 11px small print under bold Palatino titles; links are underlined navy, on a cream sheet with a peach bar, khaki title strips, pale yellow cells and one maroon block. It was how institutions first put their prospectus, handbook and forms on the web, written by hand in an office, until content systems and wide stylesheet layouts replaced it after 2000.", "url": "https://chrono.skin/s/v1-te-8b33-dc", "preview_url": "https://chrono.skin/s/v1-te-8b33-dc/specimen.html", "files": { "STYLE.md": "# Table-era department site, 1997\n\n## Summary\n\nThe pages of a university department, a library or a public institution as built between 1996 and 2000: a 700px sheet centred in an 800px window, a serif letterhead over one filled line of links, and a front page that is a table of contents, each row a coloured label cell with a sentence and its links beside it. Text is 13px Arial with 11px small print under bold Palatino titles; links are underlined navy, on a cream sheet with a peach bar, khaki title strips, pale yellow cells and one maroon block. It was how institutions first put their prospectus, handbook and forms on the web, written by hand in an office, until content systems and wide stylesheet layouts replaced it after 2000.\n\n## Layout\n\n- The page is fixed, not fluid, and centred: `--size-page` is 700px. `.ds-page__frame` is the sheet, with `--space-3` (8px) of padding above and `--space-4` (12px) at the sides and foot; nothing is wider than it and nothing stretches with the window.\n- The specimen is one example site, a school of clock and watch making, of four views. `.ds-nav` and `.ds-footer` are written once, outside the views; each view is a `.ds-view` section and one shows at a time.\n- Order from the top: `.ds-nav`, then the view, then the `.ds-footer` under a heavy rule. The `.ds-nav` is two rows: `.ds-nav__top` (the `.ds-brand` at the left; at the right, right-aligned, the department's name and one small line) and `.ds-nav__bar`, one filled line under a heavy rule with the text links at the left, separated by upright bars, and the small search form at the right. There is no rail, no row of tabs or keys and no second strip.\n- One label column, `--size-label` (140px), runs down the left of the home view: the session label of the welcome band and the coloured label cells of the contents ledger stand in it, and the narrow column at the foot starts on it. The home view, `.ds-page__main`, is a stack of full-width blocks with `--space-5` (18px) between them: the `.ds-hero` welcome band, the `.ds-grid` contents ledger of five rows, the `.ds-stat` line of figures between two rules, and `.ds-page__columns`, a 176px `.ds-page__side` of small `.ds-panel` boxes at the left and the dated `.ds-list` under a `.ds-heading` at the right.\n- Inner pages (a course list, a handbook section, a form) keep the `.ds-nav` and the `.ds-footer` and drop the welcome band, the ledger and the figures. `.ds-page__inner` opens with `.ds-page__head` across the full sheet, which stacks with `--space-2` between them the small `.ds-breadcrumb`, the `.ds-page-header` (serif title and one italic line at the left, one button at the right, closed by its own heavy rule in the bar colour) and, when the page has parts, the `.ds-tabs` line. Below it `.ds-page__split` sets the page itself, `.ds-page__block`, at the left and a `--size-side` (180px) `.ds-sidebar` at the right after a `--space-5` gutter: the links of that section, then one or two short notes. Blocks in `.ds-page__block` are `--space-5` apart: the `.ds-table` with its key and `.ds-pagination`, or `.ds-prose`, or `.ds-notices`, the `.ds-form` and what it opens.\n- Views: `home` is the front page (welcome band, contents ledger, figures, term dates, news). `courses` is the course list: the kinds of course as a line of choices, the table of courses with its status key, the page links and the empty state of a list not yet announced. `handbook` is one section of the student handbook as running text, including the line that shows the link states, with the contents in the sidebar and links to the sections before and after. `apply` is the application form with its notices and the boxed question that withdrawing an application opens. The link of the view that is showing is cut out of the bar in the sheet's colour, bold and not underlined; the home link is marked when the address names no view.\n- Blocks are separated by hairlines, heavy rules and outlines, never by cards with shadows or wide gutters. Everything is left-aligned except the label cells and the letterhead lines, which are right-aligned, and the session label, which is centred.\n- Spacing scale: `--space-1` 2px is the padding of strips and bars, the gap between ledger rows and the padding of controls; `--space-2` 5px is cell padding above and below, the gap between the lines of the inner-page head and between a title and its text; `--space-3` 8px is the side padding of cells and strips, box padding, paragraph spacing and the gap between buttons; `--space-4` 12px is the side margin of the sheet, the gap between boxes in a column and between choices in the `.ds-tabs` line; `--space-5` 18px is the gap between neighbouring blocks and between columns; `--space-6` 36px is the list indent and the width of a short input.\n- Fixed sizes: `--size-date` 64px date column of the news list, `--size-search` 110px search field, `--size-field` 230px text input, `--size-area` 320px textarea, `--size-check` 13px checkbox, `--size-dialog` 330px boxed question.\n\n## Typography and colour roles\n\nThis style combines the parts of different styles of one era. Where a note below names a value that differs from `tokens.css`, the tokens are right.\n\n- Family: a warm orange band, navy and sky blues on white, with dark green for positive status and slate for visited links.\n- `--color-page`, `--color-canvas`, `--color-surface` are white `#ffffff`; `--color-surface-alt` `#efefef` is the service strip under the top bar, the sidebar column, the strip behind the four boxes, form label cells and the dialog's button row; `--color-surface-strong` `#cccccc` carries no text.\n- `--color-bar` `#ffcc66` (orange, black text) is every title band of the main column and the 2px rule under a page header. `--color-bar-alt` `#a0d0ff` (sky blue, black text) is every sidebar title strip, the table head and the outline of notices and the figure line.\n- `--color-inverse` `#003399` (navy, white text) is the top bar, panel titles and the dialog title bar; links on it are white and underlined. The same navy is `--color-border-strong` (panel, box and dialog outlines), `--color-heading-alt` (h3, positive figures), `--color-link-quiet` and `--color-focus`.\n- Links are dark blue `--color-link` `#000099`, visited `#666699`, active `#cc0000`; hover equals the link colour.\n- `--color-accent` and `--color-accent-alt` `#cc0000` are the solid badge, the \"New!\" word and negative figures.\n- `--color-fill-1` to `--color-fill-4` are `#d8e8ff`, `#efefef`, `#ffcc66`, `#a0d0ff` and colour the four boxes of the strip; `--color-fill-1` is also the directory block, the figure line, the summary row of a table and the empty state. They carry black text and blue links.\n- `--color-warning` `#ffcc66` is a fill only and carries black text; `--color-success` `#006600` and `--color-danger` `#cc0000` carry white. Notices are pale blue `#d8e8ff`; the error notice is red text on white.\n- Borders: `--color-border` `#808080`, `--color-border-muted` `#cccccc` for the rules between table rows, the footer rule and bevels, `--color-input-border` `#cccccc` for input bevels.\n- One sans-serif throughout: `--font-body`, `--font-heading` and `--font-ui` are Arial, Helvetica. `--font-mono` is Courier New.\n- `--text-base` and `--text-ui` 12px, the size the first stylesheets of 1999 gave a sans-serif page; `--text-small` 10px for the service strip, tool links, sidebar titles, sub-categories, table head, captions, meta and legal text.\n- `--text-h3` 12px bold, `--text-h2` and `--text-large` 14px (the hero title, figures), `--text-h1` 18px for a page title, `--text-display` 22px bold (`--weight-display` 700) for the wordmark only. `--weight-ui` is 700: button labels are bold.\n- Line height `normal`; no transform, no tracking; capitals in sidebar titles are typed. All three link decorations are `underline`.\n- `--border-width` and `--border-width-strong` are both 2px, `--border-style` `solid`: every rule, row line and outline has the weight of a 2px coloured rule. There are no hairlines.\n- Boxes stand on hard black edges: `--shadow-panel` is a 1px outline in `--color-border-strong` with a 4px offset edge in `--color-shadow` behind it, neither blurred, and it frames the sheet as well as the panels; `--shadow-dialog` is a 4px offset, `--shadow-control` and `--shadow-control-hover` 1px; `--shadow-control-pressed` and `--shadow-text` are `none`. Bars are pinstriped: `--fill-bar`, `--fill-bar-alt` and `--fill-inverse` repeat two rows of the palette colour and one row of a much lighter mix of it. Every other fill is the flat palette colour (`--fill-panel` is `--color-surface`). Radius 0; `--focus-ring` is `2px solid` in `--color-focus`; `--transition` is `none`.\n- Not expressible by a token, written literally in `components.css`: the bevel of buttons and selects is `border-style: outset` and of inputs, checkboxes and pressed buttons `inset`, drawn in `--color-border-muted` and `--color-input-border`.\n\n- Family: the 1999 bookshop front, a khaki ground with a white sheet on it, pale yellow boxes, dark green and maroon, with the purple of the 1998 university page for visited links. It is the only set of this era whose page is not the colour of its content: `--color-page` is khaki `#cccc99` and `--color-canvas` white `#ffffff`, so the centred page stands in the window as a white sheet with khaki at both sides.\n- `--color-surface` is white; `--color-surface-alt` `#ffffcc` (pale yellow) is alternate rows, quiet strips and the empty state; `--color-surface-strong` is the khaki.\n- `--color-bar` `#cccc99` (khaki, black text, blue links) is the search band, the table head, panel titles and the header and footer rules. `--color-bar-alt` `#ffffcc` (pale yellow, black text) is every other title strip and the notice border.\n- `--color-inverse` `#003300` (dark green, white text) is the dialog title bar or a top bar. The same green is `--color-heading-alt` (the brand name, h3, positive figures), `--color-accent` (the solid badge, white text), `--color-border-strong`, `--color-success` and `--color-focus`.\n- Headings are maroon: `--color-heading` `#990000`. Text is black; `--color-text-muted` `#686868`.\n- Links are `--color-link` `#003399`, always underlined; visited `#680060`; active `#aa0000`; hover equals the link colour.\n- `--color-accent-alt` `#aa0000` is the \"New!\" word, prices and negative figures; `--color-danger` is the same red, as text on white and as a fill under white text.\n- `--color-fill-1` to `--color-fill-4` are `#ffffcc`, `#cccc99`, `#cc9900` (the gold of the shop's section labels), `#ffffff`. They carry black text and blue links.\n- `--color-warning` `#cc9900` is a fill only and carries black text. Notices sit on pale yellow; the error notice is red on white.\n- Borders: `--color-border` `#989898`, `--color-border-muted` `#c0c0c0` for row rules and bevels, `--color-input-border` `#c0c0c0`. Buttons are the grey of the operating system, `#efefef` and `#c0c0c0`.\n\nSpacing is compact: every `--space-*` token of the layout was multiplied by 0.8. Where the Layout section names a spacing in pixels, the tokens are right.\n\n## Components\n\n- `.ds-page`: on ``; the squared ground, body type. `.ds-page__frame` is the 700px sheet in `--color-canvas`. `.ds-page__main` is the home stack; `.ds-page__columns` its two columns at the foot and `.ds-page__side` the narrow left one. On inner pages `.ds-page__inner` holds `.ds-page__head` (path, page header, choices) and `.ds-page__split`, which sets `.ds-page__block` beside the sidebar.\n- `.ds-nav`: header. `.ds-nav__top` holds the `.ds-brand` and the right-aligned `.ds-nav__tagline`, whose first line is `.ds-nav__dept`; `.ds-nav__bar` is the filled line with `.ds-nav__links` (`.ds-nav__item` / `.ds-nav__link`, bar separated) and the `.ds-nav__search` form with its `.ds-nav__field`. 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The name `chronoskin` and its mark are placeholders for the installing project's own name and logo.\n- `.ds-hero`: the welcome band, the era's page introduction: an outlined box whose left cell, `.ds-hero__label` on `--fill-inverse`, names the session (`.ds-hero__year` is its large line) and whose `.ds-hero__body` holds `.ds-hero__title` (22px serif), `.ds-hero__lead` (15px) and `.ds-hero__action`, a large button, a secondary one and a `.ds-hero__hint`. Never a tall banner or a picture.\n- `.ds-page-header`: the head of an inner page, used instead of `.ds-hero`. `.ds-page-header__text` holds `.ds-page-header__title` (22px serif) and `.ds-page-header__lead` (one italic line); `.ds-page-header__action` holds one button, bottom-aligned at the right. A heavy rule in the bar colour closes it.\n- `.ds-prose`: running text on handbook pages; styles `h1`, `h2`, `h3`, `p`, `ul`, `ol`, `strong`, `code`; `.ds-prose__lead` for a 15px lead line.\n- `.ds-link`: every link. 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HR101Bench Practice I: filing, turning and fittingAll year180FULL
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