[Actionchix] Simpler designs

[Clytie Siddall]

On 03/07/2006, at 10:25 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006, Terri Oda wrote:
>> On 29-Jun-06, at 7:08 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
>>> [1] Be wary of the distortion introduced by not using a fixed font
>>> size.
>>
>> For comparison, here's a version with a fixed 10pt font for the body
>> text:
>>
>> http://terri.zone12.com/linuxchix/index-orange-cleaner.html
>>
>> - I also moved the logo up to the upper right hand corner so that it
>> wouldn't push the menu so far down, and fixed the wrapping around the
>> menu, as per people's comments earlier.
>
> Thanks. I like this version better: I'm interested in hearing from
> people with narrow viewports.

I have a 12" iBook, with a left-hand tab drawer in my browser, and  
width-wise it looks fine. I also impose a 12-pt font-size on  
webpages, because I can't read under that size. Both these factors  
push the news text down quite a bit, so I suggest we have news links  
(in orange?) part-way down under the left-hand navbar, so people know  
what's down the page and don't miss it. My viewport shows down to the  
heading for the FLOSSPOLS part, no further. I would be missing good  
stuff if I closed the window without paging down, and I often do  
that, relying on the page to tell me there's good stuff down there,  
rather than chasing it myself. Less movement, which is important for me.

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