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Posted to dev@directory.apache.org by Ersin Er <er...@gmail.com> on 2007/02/02 09:39:48 UTC
[SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Hi all and PAM!,
I have a suggestion on site design. How about widening the used area
of the web pages so that we only have space on each right and left
side as same as we have at the top and bottom of pages, say something
like 10-15 pixels? If we do this, we can also increase the size of the
left navigation bar a bit because some menu items do not fit there. At
the end we'll have more space for documentation pages especially and
it will still look good I guess.
Thanks.
--
Ersin
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>.
It's now on all the sites.
I also added a non intrusive link for editing the page at the top right
corner of the page.
P-A
On 2/2/07, Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> Ersin Er wrote:
> > It's OK for me.
> >
> > On 2/2/07, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net> wrote:
> >> Here it is :
> >> http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/ls-site2/ls-site2/
> >>
> >> WDYT ?
>
> I like it better. It was a bit annoying to see the navigation crunch or
> cut off long menu items.
>
> Alex
>
>
>
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Alex Karasulu <ak...@apache.org>.
Ersin Er wrote:
> It's OK for me.
>
> On 2/2/07, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net> wrote:
>> Here it is :
>> http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/ls-site2/ls-site2/
>>
>> WDYT ?
I like it better. It was a bit annoying to see the navigation crunch or
cut off long menu items.
Alex
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Ersin Er <er...@gmail.com>.
It's OK for me.
On 2/2/07, Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net> wrote:
> Here it is :
> http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/ls-site2/ls-site2/
>
> WDYT ?
>
> P-A
>
>
>
> On 2/2/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > first, I have to tell you that I'mp impressed with the progress you made
> with the new site ! It's pretty impessive.
> > Ok, then, there are some problmes with images.
> >
> > I agree that we should have a wider central page to allow images to be
> exposed correctly. What I would suggest is to design the site targeting
> 1024x768, and set both side to the bare minimum so we just see the shadow,
> but not much more (that would mean something like 15 pixels x 2 + 20 pixels
> for the slider). We will gain around150 pixels in the middle page, which
> should be enough.
> >
> > For all of us happy enough to have a 1900x1600 wide screen, this is pretty
> ok ;)
> >
> > FYI, 1024x768 is still 58% of all browsers, slowly increasing (higher
> resolution is increasing slowly...) (stats from
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cordialement,
> > Emmanuel Lécharny
> > www.iktek.com
>
>
--
Ersin
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>.
Here it is : http://people.apache.org/~pamarcelot/ls-site2/ls-site2/
WDYT ?
P-A
On 2/2/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> first, I have to tell you that I'mp impressed with the progress you made
> with the new site ! It's pretty impessive.
> Ok, then, there are some problmes with images.
>
> I agree that we should have a wider central page to allow images to be
> exposed correctly. What I would suggest is to design the site targeting
> 1024x768, and set both side to the bare minimum so we just see the shadow,
> but not much more (that would mean something like 15 pixels x 2 + 20 pixels
> for the slider). We will gain around150 pixels in the middle page, which
> should be enough.
>
> For all of us happy enough to have a 1900x1600 wide screen, this is pretty
> ok ;)
>
> FYI, 1024x768 is still 58% of all browsers, slowly increasing (higher
> resolution is increasing slowly...) (stats from
> http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
>
>
> --
> Cordialement,
> Emmanuel Lécharny
> www.iktek.com
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>.
Hi guys,
first, I have to tell you that I'mp impressed with the progress you made
with the new site ! It's pretty impessive.
Ok, then, there are some problmes with images.
I agree that we should have a wider central page to allow images to be
exposed correctly. What I would suggest is to design the site targeting
1024x768, and set both side to the bare minimum so we just see the shadow,
but not much more (that would mean something like 15 pixels x 2 + 20 pixels
for the slider). We will gain around150 pixels in the middle page, which
should be enough.
For all of us happy enough to have a 1900x1600 wide screen, this is pretty
ok ;)
FYI, 1024x768 is still 58% of all browsers, slowly increasing (higher
resolution is increasing slowly...) (stats from
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp)
--
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
Re: [SITE] Widening the used area on the web pages
Posted by Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot <pa...@marcelot.net>.
Hi,
I see you mean. But we can't really do that because of the header and footer
images. If we set a left and right margin of, let's say 15 pixels, then the
size of the content part is not going to be the same if you open the site
with different window sizes. Since the header and footer images have a
static width, this would be a big problem.
But I understand the current width of the content may be a problem for some
documentation listings that run out of the design.
The current size of the site (shadows included) is 819 pixels width. Let's
say I increase this width to be optimized for 1024*768 displays. That's
about 200 pixels more than the current version.
I'll increase the size of the left navigation bar of some pixels. (Do you
have an example where the navigation bar is too small ? I could not find
one... On the Directory homepage, the menu is a little too small from around
3 to 5 pixels I think.)
That gives us around 190 more pixels for the content area...
I'll make a test site with these ideas and post the link on the ML.
P-A
On 2/2/07, Ersin Er <er...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all and PAM!,
>
> I have a suggestion on site design. How about widening the used area
> of the web pages so that we only have space on each right and left
> side as same as we have at the top and bottom of pages, say something
> like 10-15 pixels? If we do this, we can also increase the size of the
> left navigation bar a bit because some menu items do not fit there. At
> the end we'll have more space for documentation pages especially and
> it will still look good I guess.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Ersin
>