There are some minor and major glitches on the theme. If you can help provide an elegant (or at least working) solution to these problems I will use them. And profusely thank you!
1. Double-layer menu at top of screen - something like what Diesel Sweeties does (dieselsweeties.com) would be useful to make it easier to navigate Comixpedia. Of course I can't do it like DS did with multiple static html pages - I need a CSS (preferred) solution that will create the second row of menu options as a dropdown when the choice in the first row is highlighted.
Help?
Please add your requests and/or solutions on this thread. Thanks! :)
I know you guys are hard at work tweaking the new design, but I thought I'd offer up an alternative look that I whipped together. It's a rough mockup and could use some tweaking of its own, but it appears to be pretty sturdy and cross-platform. It would require replacing the tables in the current theme with divs (I was going for more of a pure css thing), but that shouldn't be too big a deal.
[quote:b0869e6517="Ben"]I know you guys are hard at work tweaking the new design, but I thought I'd offer up an alternative look that I whipped together. It's a rough mockup and could use some tweaking of its own, but it appears to be pretty sturdy and cross-platform. It would require replacing the tables in the current theme with divs (I was going for more of a pure css thing), but that shouldn't be too big a deal.
That's a really nice, clean layout. I like it!
I like it too! I would say to the Comixpedia folks, just grab this guy's design. Really classy.
Ben, I like your design too. Classical, elegant, relatively uncluttered. Xerxes, I think that's pretty close to what we want.---Al
I like clean design and Ben's certainly that, nice. But I do percieve some problems, with the ads to be precise. The top banner almost looks like it's part of the cover graphics and both the google ads and the blog ads end up way down. There is also no room for a logo.
[quote:a6813d6722="Ben"]I know you guys are hard at work tweaking the new design, but I thought I'd offer up an alternative look that I whipped together. It's a rough mockup and could use some tweaking of its own, but it appears to be pretty sturdy and cross-platform.
That's very nice Ben - thanks! I'll download it and the css file tonight and look at it this weekend.
I still have POSTNUKE issues but I suspect it is simply a matter of finding the right forum thread somewhere to explain why I can get some of the text on the site to behave.
[quote:f3d85a6097="xerexes"]That's very nice Ben - thanks! I'll download it and the css file tonight and look at it this weekend.
I guess I'd better tidy up the file a bit, then. :oops:
[quote:f3d85a6097="GiantPanda"]The top banner almost looks like it's part of the cover graphics and both the google ads and the blog ads end up way down. There is also no room for a logo.
Yeah, it's a little tricky trying to figure out what to do with the ads; on the one hand, you don't want them to overpower the content, and on the other, you don't want them to be easily overlooked. Regarding the top banner, the small addition of some white "Advertisement" text beneath the ad banner might be enough. The google ads pose a larger challenge. One way to go would be to put the ads after the first news article (properly formatted to match the expanded space, natch), but I'd need to familiarize myself with POSTNUKE more before I could hazard a guess as to how difficult that would be.
As far as the logo is concerned, the "Issue Info" section might be a good spot. I don't know if we really need it as a navigation aid, repeated throughout the website, since we've already got that "Comixpedia" link at the top (if you do want it repeated throughout the issue, I'd suggest replacing the aforementioned text link with the logo).
Anyhow, if you'd like any assistance, Xerexes, I'd be happy to help.
[quote:eaf1d55da6="Ben"][quote:eaf1d55da6="xerexes"]That's very nice Ben - thanks! I'll download it and the css file tonight and look at it this weekend.
I guess I'd better tidy up the file a bit, then. :oops:
Shoot me an email when I should download the files to look at? xerexes AT comixpedia dot COM.
yes! please god get that design! It works so well and to be quite frank, variable styles SUCK! Look at LG, they dont' have it, and quite frankly neither do we. I also have a dropdown script built in XML and CSS or jst jscript and CSS. it works beautifully :) look at www.gymtonic.com.au msg for more details (sorry can't give away trade secrets)
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Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
There are some minor and major glitches on the theme. If you can help provide an elegant (or at least working) solution to these problems I will use them. And profusely thank you!
1. Double-layer menu at top of screen - something like what Diesel Sweeties does (dieselsweeties.com) would be useful to make it easier to navigate Comixpedia. Of course I can't do it like DS did with multiple static html pages - I need a CSS (preferred) solution that will create the second row of menu options as a dropdown when the choice in the first row is highlighted.
Help?
Please add your requests and/or solutions on this thread. Thanks! :)
RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
I havent used them myself, but Suckerfish dropdowns sounds like what you might be looking for.
RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ has some drop down Java menus.
I used the Top Navigational Bar III script for a class project site: http://backintheday.toefur.com/environment/
RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
No Java please! Might as well drop in one of those obnoxious "reflective pools" Java applets in that case. CSS is the bomb.
RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
Well so far no java is being used. I'm not going out of my way to try and use javascript. Can you do a dropdown menu strictly with CSS?
RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
This is pretty nice: http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/menus/dropdownfun.html
Re: RE: Polishing Website Theme for 2005 - Want to Help?
[quote:3239402462="Airsick_Moth"]This is pretty nice: http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/menus/dropdownfun.html
That's not bad, but it doesn't seem to play nice with Opera (at least version 7.54 that I checked). IE6 and Firefox 1.0 both liked it though. With some creative modification, the quirky behavior might be tamed in Opera as well.
It is possible to do a strictly no-java CSS dropdown menu, but it's tricky, tricky, tricky and virtually guaranteed to not work for someone, somewhere. Which, I suppose, is true about everything web-design. 99.9% of the decent dropdown menus I've seen on the web incorporate java in some way.
On the other hand, how many people visiting the site are using Opera? (Might be tricky to determine, since I read somewhere that something like 75%+ of Opera users make the browser identify itself as IE to the server) And, if there is a more current version than the one I checked this with, does it work with the menu above? It might be worth considering the tradeoff of better design and usability for 97% of your visitors vs a few visual quirks for the remainder...