[Qgis-community-team] website and sidebars

[Andreas Neumann]

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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