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Subject: Re: Old revised version, and a new one
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:50:57 -0000
Message-ID: <03AF4E498C591348A42FC93DEA9661B871FF88@mail.vale-housing.co.uk>
Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] Old revised version, and a new one
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm@myrealbox.com>
Cc: <webmaster@letzplay.de>, <pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:grzm@myrealbox.com]=20
> Sent: 14 November 2003 09:24
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: webmaster@letzplay.de; pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Old revised version, and a new one
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> On Friday, November 14, 2003, at 05:29 PM, Dave Page wrote:
> >> From: Michael Glaesemann [mailto:grzm@myrealbox.com] And I was=20
> >> running into problems with column width with words not=20
> fitting into=20
> >> the 120px columns defined by the ads. I do think 120px is a little=20
> >> narrow, making it harder to read longer descriptions (due to line=20
> >> breaks) or even using longer words in some cases. What are your=20
> >> thoughts on increasing the left and right borders on the=20
> ads to make=20
> >> the columns wider?
> >
> > Ahh, a sense of d=E9j=E0 vu!!
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> Well-worn road, eh?

Yup.

> > The problem with increasing the left/right ad borders is=20
> that you then=20
> > need to do the top/bottom as well or it just looks wrong.
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> > One this I did try previously that I seem to recall I liked=20
> but Marc=20
> > wasn't so keen on (though maybe not for this reason) was=20
> including a=20
> > solid title bar just below the header, right the way across.
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> I was thinking something very similar. You could take the=20
> links that are currently banner and make something like a=20
> menu bar running beneath the ads, the logotype, and the logo.=20
> This would also give us a lot more space for varying length=20
> menu terms. I'm probably not the first person to suggest=20
> this. Was there a reason why it wasn't implemented? I'll try=20
> something like this as well.

I was designing the current site around this time last year and we got thro=
ugh about 15 versions of the site before we all agreed on this one. I forge=
t 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=20
> logo floating around somewhere? I've been keen to clean up=20
> some of the pixelation (from jpg compression?), but it might=20
> be easier just to recreate them from the originals than spend=20
> 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 nam=
e!). I'll email him.

Cheers, Dave.