Re: new website: draft 3

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:51:04AM -0700, chip wrote:
> Patrick McCarty wrote:
>     On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 12:55 AM, chip<address@hidden> wrote:
>         I think there is obviously far too much white space, also the same on 
> the
>         Downloads page.
> 
>     Does this mean "not enough content on the page", or "the margins,
>     padding, etc. are too tall/wide"?  If it's the latter, at what
>     resolution are you viewing the site (1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.)?
> 
> My screen is an old 17" crt set to 1024x768. I think there is not enough
> content on the page.

Please don't say "not enough content on the page" when we're
asking you what that means!

> The Manuals, Advertising and Home pages are all
> well-balanced in content-to-space. Maybe something like the Manuals page -
> multiple colored boxes -

Hmm... are you trying to say that you prefer two-column pages to
one-column pages?  I agree that the two-column pages work quite
well, so perhaps we should make all (or almost all) pages use
this.

Was that what you meant?

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This makes no sense to me.  Please remember that 80-character
terminals are the polite assumption to make when sending emails.

Cheers,
- Graham