Anders Aagaard wrote: > Jeff Franks wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I've been working hard for the past three weeks on my proposal for the >> Thunar web site. Rather than risk the discussion becoming an off topic I >> collaborated with Jannis Pohlmann off-list to nut out the technical >> XHMTL/CSS details, to ensure the website would be standards compliant. >> Achieving compliance and a great looking design was hard... because I >> had to think outside the box. I'm happy with the result though and >> hopefully you will be too. >> >> So here is the website: >> >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web >> >> and here is the web page template and CSS file if your interested: >> >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web/template.xhtml >> http://xfc.xfce.org/tmp/thunar-web/styles/thunar-blue.css. >> >> Here are a few points to note: >> >> 1. I wanted to design a layout that could easily be used for a new Xfce >> website (and any of its related websites) if so desired. Just change the >> color scheme and logos. >> >> 2. The main page, index.xhtml contains Dublin Core meta elements for the >> HTML head (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/). If you didn't >> know, these elements are one of the best ways to make a website known to >> the most important search engines. >> >> 3. The 'top bar' is the area where links to external websites could be >> placed, as is currently done on the Xfce website. As there are no links >> there yet I have temporarily inserted space. If the space is not there >> the top bar will not be displayed. >> >> 4. The space below the sidebar could be used for dedicated icons, such >> as a WC3 XHTML 1.0/CSS compliance icon, or a sponsor's icon if there was >> a sponsor. >> >> 5. With the Opera browser there is a 'corner' image display problem >> because of the way the browser resizes images. This is not my problem >> and by now I'm sure Opera users are used to such bad effects. >> >> 6 The text content and links have just been taken from the current >> Thunar site as an example of what the new web pages could contain. The >> text and links can be changed/refined as required. >> >> Well that's it. Let me know what you think. It's 0339 in the morning and >> I have to get to bed so I'll answer any posts that need to be answered >> when I wake up. > > Looks pretty, but I have to join the chorus and say that the sidebar is definitely too massive.
> Looks very nice, clean layout, I like it. One thing I noticed was that > I couldn't use my mouse scroll to scroll all of the page. If I put my > mouse over the left part of the page (blue part) I can scroll the entire > page, if I put it over the white part with news and such, I can only > scroll a little. > If you're using firefox 1.0.x, this might be due to a known problem with gtk2 builds of the browser and divs with the css property 'overflow' set to 'auto'. I can't be bothered to check the style sheet right now to make sure. Here's a test case: http://devrandom.com/test/overflow_auto.html Works fine here on firefox 1.5 beta. >>Jeff. >> - Jari _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev