I found this one visually appealing:
http://dribbble.com/wirwoluf/projects/104912-wikipedia-redesign
No doubt others will now take it apart :-)
- d.
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One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
pragmatically; it seems the TOC usually goes to the left, and infoboxes to
the
There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in
newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
think its around 10 words.
-Steven
On Jan 28, 2013 2:00 PM, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com
wrote:
One thing this and previous designs
On 28 January 2013 22:17, stevertigo stv...@gmail.com wrote:
There is an ideal column width for readability, which is well understood in
newspaper publishing but less so in books and even less so on the web. I
think its around 10 words.
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have
On 28 January 2013 21:59, Magnus Manske magnusman...@googlemail.com wrote:
One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Magnus Manske
magnusman...@googlemail.comwrote:
One thing this and previous designs agree upon is to use a three-column
layout for content. On today's wide screens, reduced line length for the
main text should improve readability, and still use the side columns
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:23 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
Trouble there is that newspapers are portrait and have pages, but
screens are usually landscape and (the important bit) stretch
indefinitely vertically. A good example of the problem with doing it
like a newspaper is
Newspaper columns are not all of uniform size. Layout editors choose one
width from within a certain readable range of column widths. Different
stories may be of different widths, but a particular story will keep to the
same width, as different widths would look strange. Of course if a story
jumps
