From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!loke.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Refresh of Ada-Auth.org Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:32:38 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: rrsoftware.com X-Trace: loke.gir.dk 1418859160 8165 24.196.82.226 (17 Dec 2014 23:32:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:32:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24085 Date: 2014-12-17T17:32:38-06:00 List-Id: "Niklas Holsti" 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.