Re: (ELPA website design) Re: Emacs logo proposal

[Matthew Carter]

Yuri Khan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Nicolas Petton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I just put a first draft of my work on the GNU ELPA online at
>> http://nicolas-petton.fr/ressources/elpa/
>
> I’d like to voice my concern with this fragment of CSS:
>
> === layout.css#line=97,102
> .container {
>   padding: 80px;
>   width: 960px;
>   margin: 0 auto;
> }
> ===
>
> This causes the width of the page to be at least 80+960+80 = 1020
> pixels, leading to horizontal scrolling on narrower displays.
>
> An important case of a narrow display occurs when two windows are
> tiled side-by-side on a typical 24″ 1920×1080 or 1920×1200 desktop
> monitor. (This size and resolution is when it becomes really
> inconvenient to keep the browser maximized to the whole screen, as
> lines become too wide to read.)
>
> Consider also mobile users, whose typical screen width is likely to be
> just about 2.5″, or 240 CSS pixels if taken at face value.
>
>> It's of course rather unfinished, but gives a taste of where I'm
>> heading.
>

Agreed - in marketing terms, the design definitely needs to be
"responsive".

I have a MELPA related site I had put together here:

http://slugelisp.ahungry.com/

Which auto-formats the layout based on screen width (using twitter's
bootstrap library - a set of js/css designed for various layouts).

The purple/pink color scheme looks great though!

-- 
Matthew Carter (address@hidden)
http://ahungry.com