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[Essence]

What do you think of my layout, it still is no were near done yet,Its taken me about 3 hours of work to get to this, Ill take all suggestions, please be honest, and provide soloutions/ideas, new colours/positions/more of this/ ext.

They are both at the moment, css/html, with 100% no tables or images, I will probably adding a few images later, these are just the minimum for now

Im stumped on how to display the news/content with the ajax sub tab box floated on the right, maybe just text, so suggestions on that

NORMAL (LINK)




GREEN (LINK)



EDIT: Links fixed, cant link images?


Thanks a lot!
Matt

Edited by Essence, 20 June 2007 - 02:39 PM.

[Essence]

Thanks, I just made the green one because I was bored, there both the same, and its a liquid layout so it strenchs the whole page nomatter what size. are you suggesting having it fixed? what would be a good fixed size?

Edit: i took a look at that green one again and its kinda brighter then i remembered , i was thinking maybe a blue/silver, but i like the black


Thanks

Edited by Essence, 20 June 2007 - 03:25 PM.

[albinoAZN]

The screenshot was taken on a pretty wide monitor, so it makes the layout seem like it's just really wide. The fluid width is great, I'm a big fan of that.

The template is good, but I would reconsider your blue/silver thoughts, I thing some blue accents would look great on that page. I'm not saying to replace all the black with blue, just add some accents in appropriate places.

[Essence]

Ok thanks, ya im on a macbook pro so its long, ill try adding my coloured highlights to it, any other suggestions?

[Pax]

Here are some stats from my website about visitor's screensize. Nearly 30% are on a widescreen. Mind you, a little over 10% have a width no larger than a 1280x1024 screen. However, 20% is still a pretty big number. A lot of big companies consider 2-4% to be a large portion of website viewers to not optimize for. I'm not sure how these stats compare to other websites, but thats what I get! One option you have is making a semi-fluid layout. You can set min/max values for the width of your page. My website will stretch from 740 (around there) to 1100 but not below and not over. Takes a fair bit of work and tweaking, not to mention cross browser compatibility is a pain, but it saves the headache of "Whats the best size for me to make my website?".

Normal
1024x768 32.81%
1280x1024 29.57%
1600x1200 2.21%
800x600 1.83%
1152x864 3.89%

Total: 70%

Widescreen
1280x800 9.12%
1680x1050 7.32%
1440x900 5.52%
1280x960 1.62%
1920x1200 2.07%

Total: 30%

Edited by Pax, 20 June 2007 - 08:04 PM.

[Essence]

K thanks, Isnt min-width/max-width ff only? I thought i saw a hack ill have to look, I need more suggestions, its still looks like its missing something