Re: Website update?

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 6/10/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > >> The new site is located here:
> > >> http://jonathon.quotidian.org/gtkmm.org/index.shtml
> > >> (be gentle with the server, though.  It's only served on a DSL line
> > >> for now)
> > I agree that the title is a bit odd.
> > Would it help if the horizontal list was aligned along the left
> > instead of the right so that it was harder to miss the 'main' menu?
> > Or do you think a totally different arrangement is necessary?
>
> That could help. I don't have a better suggestion, I'm afraid.

I've aligned it to the left, but haven't yet come up with a better
title for "Other Resources" so I've left it as is for now.  Is the
main menu more obvious now or do you think we need a different
approach?

> > hmm.  I'm not so sure I agree with this.  I tend to think that the
> > plain white main section looks rather elegant and uncluttered, but
> > that's just my opinion.  I'll experiment more with some
> > differentiation of the sidebar, though I've tried some things already
> > and wasn't happy with them at all.
>
> I'm mostly concerned that the 2 sections have no clear separation other
> than the separate paragraph blocks.

I've uploaded a new version with a different background color for the
sidebar menu.  Let me know what you think (anybody may comment of
course, not just murray).  I tried to keep it pretty subtle, but I
think it still works to differentiate the sections. There were a
couple other minor changes as well.

The address is the same as before
(http://jonathon.quotidian.org/gtkmm.org/).  I've left the old version
up as well if you want to examine the differences more closely.  you
can find it here: http://jonathon.quotidian.org/gtkmm.org-old/

I've not addressed the PNG-with-alpha issue yet, so it will still look
like crap in IE, I'm afraid.  I'll tackle that soon.

Jonner