How about ditching the frames entirely? Not only are they
problematical from a UI perspective, they're now passe. See <URL:
http://www.python.org/ > or <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ > for a more
modern design.
Of course, pages that put everything in a table to do layout load slow
and tend to come out ugly on anything that isn't pretty much a clone
of the designers system, but they beat frames hollow.
<mike
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Oliver Andrich wrote:
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:44:19 +0200
> From: Oliver Andrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Vince Vielhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Webpages Online
>
> Hi,
>
> ok I am new to PostgreSQL and my mirror of the PostgreSQL pages is quite new,
> but I have to comment on this webpage design. I am not sure on what machines
> you work or what resolutions your display provides, but on my machine the page
> uses only 1/2 of the possible space in the web browser and it is really ugly
> to read the manuals in 16 line frame. Isn't it possible to design the frameset
> in a more flexible way? The fixed heights of the individual rows are really,
> really ugly.
>
> How about defining the top level frameset as <frameset border=0 frameborder=no
> rows="120,*,10%"> or so. Mixing fixed values, wildcards and percentage values
> is really bad style, but this is just a hint. And may be we should think about
> displaying the elephant besides the logo, cause it wastes a lot of valuable
> place in the middle frame.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Oliver Andrich
>
> On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:48:29PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> >
> > The new web pages are now online. All new look. All new feel. All new
> > logos. All new.................
> >
> > Vince.
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