David Abrahams wrote:
Jason Earl <Jason@hybd.net> writes:
Coming from a web design / web programming background (PHP), if there is anything i can do towards the design / interface / back-end, I would would be happy to put some time into site if there is anything I can do.
There are pro's and cons with fixed width design. Fixed width can make things a lot more readable as you don't have excessively long lines to read on computers with hi-res screens. A lot of people do find this is true. On the other hand for a site involving a lot of code snippets, you will have a lot of <code> and / or <pre> blocks that have code that need to be non wrap-able and monospace fonts, so liquid layouts are a bonus there, as these code snippets can often break a fixed width design.
Of course we really should keep our code snippets reasonably narrow for the same reasons, but I doubt we can actually get buy-in and disciplined attention from everyone who's writing docs.
With my design I wasn't suggesting that it be used for anything but the front page. And it's specifically design for the news style content of the front page. So I'm not sure concerns about code snippets applies. Unless you are thinking of applying the front page design to the rest of the site? I which case I would have to take that into consideration. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com - 102708583/icq