Sek: What size screen resolution are you viewing it at?
Especially if we further revise and condense the content in the left column (as you suggested), I really don't see why we'd want to make it wider? That just means it'd have even less vertical fill.I thought *panic* i said "I would prefer to see the news column a fair bit narrower!" Not wider! Screen resolution is 1920x1080 and the main page I looked at was too wide at that display compared to ... all (?) the other websites I usually access in work and social? (too wide the diplay with no horizontal scroll, I meant); and the news column sisproportionate, of course this is what this redesign is aimed at! Murphy's choise, maybe. Screen rez. no bearing on browser width should not be relevant here!
Sek: I didn't think it was valuable padding the shorter column with extra vertical whitespace to make its last box extend down.Agreed! Don't mind it at all, like I said, was just an aside.
Sek: I'll think on it, but I'm at loss for a workable solution, and I personally think it's acceptable to have some level of scrolling at 1024.It's not a deal breaker, but reducing the news column width would likely bring it back to 1024 width or less.
Another way to look at this is to open a new browser window (any browser) and open in tabs (say)
https://secure.ncsoft.com/cgi-bin/accountManagement.pl?language=en and also in a second tab
http://na.cityofheroes.com/en/ . now Set make the browser window wide enough to display all the conent.
Then in a third tab open
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/User:Sekoia/Sandbox/Main_Page . What is people's experience when doing that?
For me I get the horizontal scroll bars (and no dealbreaker!) and all of news and some of right column. But right column is cropped. (That is, information is not shown).
It's here where I was suggesting that this not occur, by reducing the width of the left column a few pixels in the page design. So that when when a user at typical browser widths opens the page it is all there at a glance without a drag-acrss to see all.
Sek: [re revised welcome et al] [revised welcome et al] It'd be better to post your draft on the wiki, under your personal user page or something.Wilco! Thank-you, wasn't sure best way to approach that!
Sek: [bal. columns and flow ] No. This is not realistically possible.Good to know. Sorry, just wished to clarify.
Sek:You feel the page should have a lower minimum width, so that horizontal isn't required at 1024 width (pref. 960)Not exactly. The
minimum width is very small! I meant the width at which horizontal scrolling vanishes, not quite the same thing!
Sek: Original, with right column at a fixed width
Revised, with left column at 65% and right at 35%Which do people prefer?Hmm, either arre substantially the same to most users at most tiumes as far as I can tell. they pack and unpack nicely, and at usual browser sizes both are fine to use.
on balance, Main Page Three.
Thanks for your patience with this.