[Qgis-community-team] website and sidebars

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

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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