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To: Michael Glaesemann <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Old revised version, and a new one
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:50:57 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 14 November 2003 09:24
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Old revised version, and a new one
>
>
> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> >> From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:[email protected]] And I was
> >> running into problems with column width with words not
> fitting into
> >> the 120px columns defined by the ads. I do think 120px is a little
> >> narrow, making it harder to read longer descriptions (due to line
> >> breaks) or even using longer words in some cases. What are your
> >> thoughts on increasing the left and right borders on the
> ads to make
> >> the columns wider?
> >
> > Ahh, a sense of déjà vu!!
>
> Well-worn road, eh?
Yup.
> > The problem with increasing the left/right ad borders is
> that you then
> > need to do the top/bottom as well or it just looks wrong.
> >
> > One this I did try previously that I seem to recall I liked
> but Marc
> > wasn't so keen on (though maybe not for this reason) was
> including a
> > solid title bar just below the header, right the way across.
>
> I was thinking something very similar. You could take the
> links that are currently banner and make something like a
> menu bar running beneath the ads, the logotype, and the logo.
> This would also give us a lot more space for varying length
> menu terms. I'm probably not the first person to suggest
> this. Was there a reason why it wasn't implemented? I'll try
> something like this as well.
I was designing the current site around this time last year and we got through about 15 versions of the site before we all agreed on this one. I forget the exact reasons why any of them were rejected to be honest (not that I can even remember what most of them looked like anyway!).
> Speaking of which, are there originals of the logotype and
> logo floating around somewhere? I've been keen to clean up
> some of the pixelation (from jpg compression?), but it might
> be easier just to recreate them from the originals than spend
> the time pushing pixels.
Sorry, I did them from the logo on techdocs. I never had any vector images for them. However, I have a funny feeling one of the pgAdmin team worked up a vector version of Slonik (the elephant - betcha didn't know it had a name!). I'll email him.
Cheers, Dave.
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