On 01/18/2014 09:58 AM, William wrote:
The website so far. Pardon the graininess of the top left logo.
I woke up early with an idea that led to a series of major
overhauls and I was burnt out by the time I got that far. But as
promised, I am putting this up today. You will also notice the
text in the navigation is slightly out of alignment. Perfectly
fixable, but I wanted to get this up while I had the chance
since I'm sure if I will be around to mess with it anymore today.
All of the pages currently have the same content. Real content,
especially for the front page, is on the way - I just needed a
place holder. Also pardon the Latin placeholder text.
All of the items in the navigation are placeholders. While a few
of them are a must, we need to determine what sub pages we
actually need. This will determine the actual content that needs
developed.
I have tested the site in Chrome, Firefox, and Midori at
1600x900(16:9), 1280x1024(5:4) and 1280x960(4:3)
As it stands, the navigation vertically stacks itself if the
window becomes to small.
Keep in mind:
We also have a documentation wiki at wiki.torios.org and a forum
at forums.torios.org/index.php. If we are going to be using the
forums I am not yet sure if I am going to create a but as an
external link up with the social media icons, or directly
integrate it into the website, and therefor navigation. If we go
with the forums we will need moderators.
Here you go:
http://www.torios.org/test/demo/index.html
The text in the table doesn't scale when on smaller sizes.
You should fix that in the CSS.... (though I personally don't
like tables... I usually use height/width percentages for divs
and float: left; )
Since I don't like tables, I would have done the list as CSS
buttons in an anchor. And done some a:hover{//color effect}
It also seems better to me to use responsive techniques in the
padding and font size. (i.e padding: 2% 2% 1% 1%; font-size:
large;)
Of course you need to make it work for IE also, so you may
already have a plan to do this stuff....
Unless you are using something for mobiles instead. If you are
doing it you should also include the scalable part:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,
initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=2.0, user-scalable=yes" />
And maybe the:
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="144x144"
href="apple-touch-icon-144x144-precomposed.png">
and
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"
href="apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png">
types for the mobile users.
Also, I think using SVG would be better than png for web
graphics, though again there are those browser caveats like Opera
Mini, the ever problematic IE, etc...
There is also modernizer, that you may also be planning to
implement in the future...
I am sure you are already thinking about these things, and
getting ready to implement it, so I am not trying to point out
the obvious. Just gave you my few quick thoughts... Oh and
sharethis.com has a nice social media script that also lets you
gather some info back about the traffic statistics though you may
prefer to use your own stuff :)
Sorry my e-mail is so nit-picky, I know you just made this and
the overall design looks great. I like the colors you used, and
the way you laid everything out. So just take my blurb with a
grain of salt as you obviously know what you are doing and made
it look great!
