Shlomi Fish
Wed, 02 Apr 2003 23:46:06 -0800
Hi all! There are some standing web-design issues with www.haifux.org's front page which I believe should be fixed. Here they are: 1. Fixed Pixels Width --------------------- The main layout table is hard-coded to be 800-pixels wide. On browser windows that are not as wide as that a horizontal scroll bar will be displayed. On larger browser Windows there will be an annoying whitespace surrounding the page from the left and from the right. A horizontal scroll bar is very commonly considered a bad idea: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20021223.html http://malektips.envprogramming.com/wdev0003.html This can easily be fixed by specifying the 'width="100%"' attribute for the main layout table. 2. Change of Fonts ------------------ The font of the page was changed to Tahoma by using <font> tags. Generally, surfers do not appreciate sites with a plain design like that having a different font. They have their browser configured to a default font and would like it to be displayed by all sites. Moreover, the change of font does not apply to the cells within a table. This can be fixed by switching the font change to a CSS stylesheet, but I support eliminating it entirely. ------ Both of these changes are easy to implement. One can find a patch that performs them here: http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/www.haifux.org-diff Regards, Shlomi Fish ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page: http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/ My opinions may seem crazy, but they all make sense. Insane sense, but sense nonetheless. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]