How to get to the Xfce 4.4 website

[Alexander Toresson]

On 1/10/06, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 1/10/06, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 1/10/06, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > (Started new discussion; from "How to get to Xfce 4.4")
> > >
> > > Maybe it's a bit lazy to create an image layout, but it's a lot faster
> than
> > > writing everything in css:
> > >
> > >  Index sample
> > > Documentation sample
> > >
> > > Maybe it looks like FreeBSD to much, but it can (and will) be changed
> > > later. It's more an idea how the content can be arranged.
> > >
> > > Anyway need to get back to work,
> > >     Gr. Nick
> > >
> > > ps. I hope more people do this (or change this mokup) to finish with the
> > > most refreshing layout.
> > >
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> >
> > I agree with all the others. It's a great design. I've just got one
> > question: Is the page resolution independent? That is, does it use the
> > full width of your browser window, or is it static width?
>
> I  was thinking of both :). 780px and 100%. Enough space in the header for
> a small buttun :P.
>
> > I'm asking because I've seen just too many pages on the net that are
> > static width, and therefore just use a part of your full horizontal
> > resolution on monitors that are reasonably high resolution (1600x1200,
> > 1680x1050 etc).
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> Yes, but it's hard to design and in most cases a website "designed" for
> 780px is a but ugly in 1600px. But i'll give it a shot.

True, but I don't think it will be that hard with your page. The
simplest solution I can see right now would be to make the gradient
between (the logo and logo text) and (the text size selector and the
search box) repeating and do the same to the gradient after
"Community". This could be made without altering in any way how the
page would look at 800x600.

I did a small mockup in Gimp and it doesn't look bad at all imho:

ftp://213.65.170.31/index2.png

Yes, it looks a bit stretched, and the whole page will do, but that's
normal when viewing pages that adapt to the resolution you use when
you're on a higher resolution. The people that uses a higher
resolution will get the page stretched to fill the window (and will be
used to pages looking a bit stretched), and people using lower
resolutions won't see any bigger difference.

> > I'm asking because your page 'looks' like it could be one of those, as
> > it has quite much graphics that are 'containing' the page, and I
> > wouldn't like the Xfce site to become one of those. A real world
> > example of what I mean can be seen on for example www.blogspot.com,
> > which does actually try to hide the problem a bit, but still has it.
>
> When the css is finished more or less, i'd like to hear what you think about
> it.
>

Yeah, I'd like to take a look at it then.

Oh, and a minor thing: would it be possible to make the font used in
the text to the right of the logo hinted? That would make many the
edges sharper, especially for example the left edges of the "D" and
"E". This might be my personal preference, and just a minor
observation, though :)

Regards, Alexander Toresson