[Qgis-community-team] website and sidebars

[Anita Graser]

Thanks Richard!
I think this change needs to be companied by an increase in the page width.
The right-hand-side column is just too narrow now. Can you increase the
content width it by the width of the sidebar?
Best wishes,
Anita



On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net>
wrote:

>
> Ok, I've put now sidebars on all pages except the frontpage in qgis.org
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
> On 04-02-15 10:55, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I agree - a sidebar would improve usability of the website. I still have
> > a hard time finding stuff on our new website.
> >
> > So +1 from my side.
> >
> > The other issue I sometimes have about the website, is that the main
> > content section is so narrow. There is so much wasted white space left
> > and right of the content if my browser window is maximized. But I would
> > assume that the newly introduced sidebar would occupy some of this
> > wasted white-space?
> >
> > Ideally we could have a more flexible layout - after all HTML content
> > can freely flow and occupy different column widths. Currently, our
> > layout can shrink (which is good for phones), column widths cannot grow,
> > it seems. Esp. the QGIS manual could benefit from a wider column width
> > (e.g. when containing bits of code which looks ugly in too narrow column
> > widths).
> >
> > Just my two cents,
> > Andreas
> >
> > On 04.02.2015 10:38, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> While I generally like the design of our website, to find something, I
> >> always try to navigate to a page where there is a sidebar (with
> >> TOC/table of contents)  so I can look for some section there...
> >> But most of the 'landing-pages' do NOT have a sidebar by design, and
> >> often point to a second landing page without sidebar either...
> >>
> >> I'm proposing to just let ALL pages except the frontpage have a sidebar.
> >>
> >> While it 'breaks' the desing probably, and is not as nice, I think it is
> >> a functional change we could do.
> >> Fix is easy, screendump here:
> >>
> >> https://i.imgur.com/EfDhhPZ.png
> >>
> >> and I could even add a little javascript button to 'hide/show' the
> >> sidebar in those pages.
> >>
> >> Ideas/comments?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Richard Duivenvoorde
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