I have to recommend against the horizontal scrolling and column usage. And having to maintain two separate versions of the web page almost always turns out to be a bad idea: it doubles your workload for updates. If you want to go that route, I'd recommend the "low fi" version just be the mobile version, and the only differences between the low fi and high fi are CSS files; the content should remain the same.
Definitely add Google analytics for the pages so you can tell what users are clicking on and find out which parts are useful and which parts are just taking up valuable screen real estate. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:02 AM, diliup gabadamudalige <dili...@gmail.com>wrote: > i agree with Al. But scrolling in any direction is ok. > > > On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 7:06 PM, Bartosz Debski <bart...@debski.co.uk>wrote: > >> HI, I must say horizontal scroll is somewhat annoying. I would go with >> rule less is more, but that's my opinion. >> >> Cheers >> >> >> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:49 AM, René Dudfield <ren...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Greg, >>> >>> Since you used five NOs, I thought I'd break my own new rule of not >>> talking about future features and let you know there is also going to be a >>> 'lofi' version with a more conventional approach(think old craigslist >>> level of interface). The current website is also going to keep working in >>> tandem until that's done. >>> >>> I'm reading all the feedback and am thinking about it all... So thanks >>> again everyone. >>> >>> all the best, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sunday, April 6, 2014, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> René Dudfield wrote: >>>> >>>> here's a preview of the HiFi part of the new pygame website... >>>>> >>>>> http://pygame.org/hifi.html >>>>> What do you think? >>>>> >>>> >>>> NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! >>>> >>>> This is a HORRIBLE user interface, for all sorts >>>> of reasons. >>>> >>>> 1. There is no need for a page of this kind to require >>>> horizontal scrolling at all. >>>> >>>> 2. If horizontal scrolling is required (which it's not >>>> in this case) it should be done the usual way, with >>>> a scroll bar. >>>> >>>> 3. Scrolling, if it's to happen at all, should happen >>>> promptly, and not make the user wait through an >>>> animation, particularly one that could cause dizziness >>>> or motion sickness in some people. >>>> >>>> Sorry to be so negative -- you've obviously put a lot >>>> of work into this -- but usability has to come first. >>>> >>>> Visually it's very nice. The same content in a more >>>> conventional layout would be great. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Greg >>>> >>> >> > > > -- > Diliup Gabadamudalige > > > http://www.diliupg.com > http://soft.diliupg.com/ > > > ********************************************************************************************** > This e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. If you are > not the intended recipient or have received it in error, please delete it > and all copies from your system and notify the sender immediately by return > e-mail. Any unauthorized reading, reproducing, printing or further > dissemination of this e-mail or its contents is strictly prohibited and may > be unlawful. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be timely, > secure, error or virus-free. The sender does not accept liability for any > errors or omissions. > > ********************************************************************************************** > >
