Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org

[Daniel Wahlgren <daniel@tadasweden.com>]

Curtis Napier wrote:
> I made all the content lists numbered/lettered and added "Content:" to 
> them. Look at the Handbook (the main handbook index AND the content) 
> and a guide and see what you think. Is this good?
It's better in my opinion, but there is still a lot of whitespace below 
it. (Is the green menu supposed to have "MAIN" so far away from the rest 
of the menuitems?)
http://www.tadasweden.com/images/Gentoo-redesign01.png


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>
> I made a major change to the content area. I did this to address the 
> problem of "Dead Space" under the ad bar that several people have 
> complained about and to help make the site degrade properly when fonts 
> are increased or the window is small.
>
> Doing this caused a problem with block items overlapping the ads. This 
> is because in order to get text to wrap under it (ad bar) I had to 
> float it instead of absolutely positioning it. Items like: warning, 
> important, note and codetables had to change the way the title is done 
> from a div to a span to keep the background color from stretching 
> across the page and overlapping the ads. The bottom part of them is 
> now a <p> instead of a div for the same reason. The header will now 
> only have a colored background directly under the text instead of a 
> banner that goes across the page. Other than that it still looks the 
> same.
The bottom doesn't look quite right either.
http://www.tadasweden.com/images/Gentoo-redesign02.png
Too much whitespace.

Great work though! Cheers for all the effort!
/Aridhol
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