How to get to the Xfce 4.4 website

[Nick Schermer]

On 1/10/06, Alexander Toresson <alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/10/06, Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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).
> >
> > 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'll keep it in mind, tnx

> > 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 :)


Yes, i'll do that.

Regards, Alexander Toresson
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Gr. Nick

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