Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-25 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Erik Wikström wrote: On 2006-10-24 20:33, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Erik Wikström wrote: Also, if you know some clever way of reducing the line-length (currently getting 150-160 chars/line at 1280x1024) that would be nice. I said clever since it's just as bad if those with low

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-25 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-10-25 02:46, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Tue, October 24, 2006 5:29 pm, Erik Wikström wrote: And resize the browser-windows whenever I change page? rant Unfortunately as the resolution increases the with of pages does too (if the browser- window is kept at the same size) but making

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-25 Thread Tom Davis
Greetings, On 2006 Oct 25, at 4:19 am, Erik Wikström wrote: Saw a page just the other day where the amount of columns adapted to the resolution and textsize dynamically, so when I increased the fontsize the number of columns decreased. Do you happen to know the url of that site? As useful

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-25 Thread Oliver Fromme
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Erik Wikström wrote: rant Unfortunately as the resolution increases the with of pages does too (if the browser- window is kept at the same size) but making the text-lines longer also makes it harder to read, so it's often better to just leave some of the

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, October 24, 2006 10:11 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Using Firefox 1.5.0.3. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060526 Firefox/1.5.0.3 The text from right side (the content) overlaps the vertical bar on the left. For example, the first three sentences start with

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-10-24 04:26, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I've been working on a site redesign for dragonflybsd.org. http://www.shiningsilence.com/newdf/site/data/base6.html My goals are to 1: make it more appealing 2: Get it out of quirks mode 3: Improve CSS support 4: Create a style that can be used

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
Tom Davis sent along an improved stylesheet that may fix Jeremy's overlap problem, along with other cleanup. I added Oliver Fromme's fix for the issue with text width, and made a few other minor changes. http://www.shiningsilence.com/newdf/site/data/base7.html Matt suggested extending the plant

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Magnus Eriksson
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I can't duplicate this on a Mac or on DragonFly - Mozilla 1.5.0.7 in both cases, though, as there's no 1.5.0.3 available. Can anyone else verify? Any Opera users handy? Probably irrelevant now, but it looks good in Opera 9.01. base7.html

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Erik Wikström wrote: Also, if you know some clever way of reducing the line-length (currently getting 150-160 chars/line at 1280x1024) that would be nice. I said clever since it's just as bad if those with low resolution or larger text-size get only 30-40 characters per line. Anyway, it's not

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread walt
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Using Firefox 1.5.0.3. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060526 Firefox/1.5.0.3 The text from right side (the content) overlaps the vertical bar on the left. For example, the first three sentences start with a T but you can't see the T

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2006-10-24 20:33, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Erik Wikström wrote: Also, if you know some clever way of reducing the line-length (currently getting 150-160 chars/line at 1280x1024) that would be nice. I said clever since it's just as bad if those with low resolution or larger

Re: Site layout suggestion

2006-10-24 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Tue, October 24, 2006 5:29 pm, Erik Wikström wrote: And resize the browser-windows whenever I change page? rant Unfortunately as the resolution increases the with of pages does too (if the browser- window is kept at the same size) but making the text-lines longer also makes it harder to