Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-08 Thread Richard Brown 
Hi

On 08/03/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to be able to create a five column news site. This is a first
> > for me and so I have gone to the layout gala and grabbed a three
> > column fixed with design and then in the content column put three
> > columns. See here:
> > 
> > Does this work please? Does it get mashed in other browers please?
> > Tested on a Mac currently. When I get to the office I'll look at other
> > browsers.
>
> In FF2 for Linux on my 1280x800 laptop, I needed to kick the font size
> up one step for comfortable reading. When I kicked it up one more step,
> I was faced with lines that only had 2-3 words each. Of course, the
> earlier 3-5 words per line was pretty short!
>
> I think it's way too many columns - this is a website, not a paper
> newspaper!
>
Many thanks for the responses. I have told the client I can't do it
for the issues raised in the discussions.

I have tried to present a possible resolution:


Thanks once again for all the advice and help.
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Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-07 Thread david 
Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Ian
> 
> On 07/03/07, Ian Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Subject: [css-d] Five column news styled site
>>>
>> Ok in IE6/7 FF 2.0, Opera 9.01. WinXP 1024x768
>>
>> However, might want to make the portal and hence the columns wider to give
>> yourself some room to add content.
>>
> I did what you suggested and found a different layout. I've ported it
> over to wordpress and used php so content expands into the three
> centre columns. Does it still work ok please?
> 
> 
> 

When I kicked the font size up one step in FF2 for Linux, the Search box 
intrudes over the first full column of text.

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Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-07 Thread david 
Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I want to be able to create a five column news site. This is a first
> for me and so I have gone to the layout gala and grabbed a three
> column fixed with design and then in the content column put three
> columns. See here:
> 
> Does this work please? Does it get mashed in other browers please?
> Tested on a Mac currently. When I get to the office I'll look at other
> browsers.

In FF2 for Linux on my 1280x800 laptop, I needed to kick the font size 
up one step for comfortable reading. When I kicked it up one more step, 
I was faced with lines that only had 2-3 words each. Of course, the 
earlier 3-5 words per line was pretty short!

I think it's way too many columns - this is a website, not a paper 
newspaper!

In your CSS, you have "#cemtrewrap" but don't use it anywhere ...

Outside of that, I'd guess it works for me.

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Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-07 Thread ~davidLaakso 
Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Ian
>
> On 07/03/07, Ian Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>>> Subject: [css-d] Five column news styled site
>>>
>>>   
>> Ok in IE6/7 FF 2.0, Opera 9.01. WinXP 1024x768
>>
>> However, might want to make the portal and hence the columns wider to give
>> yourself some room to add content.
>>
>> 
> I did what you suggested and found a different layout. I've ported it
> over to wordpress and used php so content expands into the three
> centre columns. Does it still work ok please?
>
> 
> 
>
> Thanks.
>   
Moving it to WP and PHP have nothing to do with it, do they?  It is that 
you've gone from a rather narrow fixed width to a full width layout. So 
it probably will do a /little/ better at higher screen resolutions. But 
with that many columns, you  will have difficulty controlling long-word 
content and images (if any). And while justified text may be the rule of 
thumb in some newspapers, and magazines, it does not work well on the 
Web regardless of the column width. Scale the fonts and you'll need a 
rowboat to navigate the rivers.

Best,
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Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-07 Thread Richard Brown 
Hi Ian

On 07/03/07, Ian Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Subject: [css-d] Five column news styled site
> >
>
> Ok in IE6/7 FF 2.0, Opera 9.01. WinXP 1024x768
>
> However, might want to make the portal and hence the columns wider to give
> yourself some room to add content.
>
I did what you suggested and found a different layout. I've ported it
over to wordpress and used php so content expands into the three
centre columns. Does it still work ok please?




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Re: [css-d] Five column news styled site

2007-03-07 Thread Ian Young 

> Subject: [css-d] Five column news styled site
>
>
> Hi
>
> I want to be able to create a five column news site. This is a first
> for me and so I have gone to the layout gala and grabbed a three
> column fixed with design and then in the content column put three
> columns. See here:
> 
> Does this work please? Does it get mashed in other browers please?
> Tested on a Mac currently. When I get to the office I'll look at other
> browsers.

Ok in IE6/7 FF 2.0, Opera 9.01. WinXP 1024x768

However, might want to make the portal and hence the columns wider to give
yourself some room to add content.

Cheers

Ian
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