Re: Refresh of Ada-Auth.org

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message 
news:cfec3rFbqjmU1@mid.individual.net...
> On 14-12-17 23:39 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> [Sorry if you see this multiple times.]
>>
>> Ada-auth.org has been refreshed with a new look. Hopefully, the site will 
>> no
>> longer look like something from the Paleolithic era of the web. (Might 
>> still
>> be only up to the Bronze Age, but this site is mainly for information, 
>> not
>> looks.) Check out www.ada-auth.org.
>
> The look is nice, but I dislike very much that you require a wide window 
> to read the text. IMO web pages should reformat themselves to the user's 
> chosen window width.

It does, but there is a minimum width. I spent several hours on the 
navigation bar, but the only way I could get it to look right was to use 
minimum widths (which I had to make larger than I wanted so that they worked 
on the browser on my phone). Else pieces got split (worst being the search 
button and the search box) and it looked like a 5-year old had designed it. 
Plus it got way too heavy taking multiple lines leaving no room for the 
actual content.

Ergo, this is the best that I can do (at least without complicating the 
pages with scripting or HTML 5 junk).

I just checked this on my desktop, and it gets quite narrow (only about 1/2 
my normal screen) before the width gets fixed. I find the bigger problem is 
that it uses the entire width when the page is really wide, and that makes 
the longer paragraphs nearly unreadable. (My browser is typically full 
screen on my 24" monitor.) I decided not to fix that because I would have 
gotten even more complaints. YMMV.

BTW: I just noticed that the larger header graphic on the home page is 
forcing a wider than usual page. Would you still make this complaint on one 
of the other pages (like the ARG page, for example)? I don't expect anyone 
to spend much time on the home page (I took most of the real content off of 
it).

                                Randy.