[FOSS4G-UK] web design

[Barry Rowlingson]

I've added the ribbon and made it all scrolling, haven't touched anything
else! Live now...

B

On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 11:59 AM Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I tried compacting the sidebar vertically to see if it could remain as a
> fixed position object, but it was hard to add the ribbon and keep the
> sidebar small enough to not lose content on short browser windows.
>
> The menu doesn't look menu-y enough for me as a plain list of blue
> links... There are some problems with my floating menu (and its all CSS, so
> its not reliant on JS tricks, and retains accessibility, I think) but I
> might try something else. Will ponder...
>
> B
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 11:42 AM Nick Bearman <
> nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi Barry,
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this.
>>
>> I fear we may be over-complicating this. I'd suggest we drop the footer
>> completely (OSGeo UK Local Chapter) and then just fix everything together
>> so it all scrolls. If the nav menu scrolls off, so be it. People can scroll
>> back up. I think the collapsible navigation menu just adds more complexity
>> where we don't need it.
>>
>> What do you / others think?
>>
>> Thanks for adding the ribbon - it looks good :-)
>>
>> Also the side bar looks odd on your image. It should look like this:
>>
>> With the nav links vertical, and the logos vertical as well, in desktop
>> mode. It should only do like that in narrow / web mode, with the main page
>> text underneath.
>>
>> That's what happens for me in Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Are you using a
>> different browser?
>>
>> Anyway - sorry for the tangent.
>>
>> I'd say keep things simple (ditch the footer and fix the whole page).
>> What do you think?
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Nick.
>> On 03/07/2023 10:09, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  I spent the weekend doing a bit of web redesign. Nothing is live yet! I
>> couldn't reconcile the expanding height of the left column with its fixed
>> position nature, so I made it all scroll, but that meant the navigation
>> menu could be scrolled off, so I added a collapsible navigation menu, seen
>> in its expanded state in the screenshot below (if attachments get through
>> the mailing list... let me know if it doesn't...)
>>
>> I've also put the ribbon in.
>>
>>  I don't think the CSS changes affect any of the other OSGeo UK pages.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> [image: image.png]
>>
>>
>> --
>> Nick Bearman
>> +44 (0) 7717745715nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk
>>
>> Due to my own life/work balance, you may get emails from me outside of normal working hours. Please do not feel any pressure to respond outside of your own working pattern.
>>
>> --
>> FOSS4G-UK mailing list
>> FOSS4G-UK at lists.osgeo.org
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/foss4g-uk
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-uk/attachments/20230703/7e7f9abf/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: GoouGxJhGVX59e9z.png
Type: image/png
Size: 64127 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-uk/attachments/20230703/7e7f9abf/attachment-0002.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 175359 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-uk/attachments/20230703/7e7f9abf/attachment-0003.png>