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Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 07:20
by Caydr
Admittedly I'm not sure what the rationale for making the site fixed-width is, so I can't say it's a bad idea. But could the maximum width at least be bumped up a little? It's a really basic change if you have any decent web designers "on staff". Maybe a few hours' work at most.

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 15:23
by Licho
I like it this way, its much easier to read than having this text spilled over my 1920 horizontal resolution.

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 15:26
by imbaczek
ctrl+mousewheel

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 15:27
by zwzsg
Licho wrote:I like it this way,
I don't like it. Make it configurable! :P

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 15:59
by Forboding Angel
Ctrl mousewheel isn't a solution, and it wouldn't hurt to fix this site at 999px wide (so that it will fit nicely on 1024x768+scrollbar).

The biggest problem would be that we would need new banner images (Oh the horror).

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 17:45
by smoth
No it reads like ass. Not this idiotic shit again. No web designer I know uses that asinine crap.
Caydr wrote:Admittedly I'm not sure what the rationale for making the site fixed-width is, so I can't say it's a bad idea. But could the maximum width at least be bumped up a little? It's a really basic change if you have any decent web designers "on staff". Maybe a few hours' work at most.
oh boy, rant from forb in 4..3...2....1......

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009, 18:02
by AF
The site needs widening by as much as 100px before the forum template correctly fits.

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 03:15
by Forboding Angel
Lol I'll keep my mouth shut. Just know that the connotation is there :-)

I also think that people were 100% off their rockers for doing this site in a wiki instead of wordpress, but sigh. That's another debate.

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 06:58
by Caydr
I realize the technical limitations, I do web design part time. That's why I said it would take a few hours to do, rather than a few seconds.

My first post perhaps wasn't being clear, I mean the forum primarily. I realized that even a medium-length post in terms of word count looks like a frakking 3 page text wall.

On the other hand, the site itself could use a resize. Are there actually opponents to this, besides the tiny amount of graphical reformatting that would be necessary?

The logos wouldn't need to be redone but they really should be, ideally.
zwzsg wrote:
Licho wrote:I like it this way,
I don't like it. Make it configurable! :P
This isn't exactly a big request. phpBB supports multiple themes. Some can be fixed-width, some can scale. It would be a trivial matter.

Surely there's another web designer that's done this kind of thing before that can understand what I'm saying? I do this kind of thing all the time.

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 13:28
by Pendrokar
Caydr wrote: Surely there's another web designer that's done this kind of thing before that can understand what I'm saying? I do this kind of thing all the time.

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<?php if($theme == 'wide'):  ?>
<link href="/css/widelayout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<?php endif;  ?>
Nop no idea what you are talking about. Can you do it with Lua?

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 20:39
by AF
Pendrokar obviously has never dealt with phpbb3 templates

Re: Widen the layout?

Posted: 28 Aug 2009, 22:05
by Caydr
This is kiddy stuff, AF...