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dreamscapes2012-07-28 03:18 pm
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4 WIP layouts for feedback
...because posting these publicly will give me some motivation, and I could use feedback on some of them *g*
Baroque
Notes: An attempt at an elegant one-column default layout.
Issues: Needs the top image flipped, and a nice little scrolly image seperator between entries. I'm also thinking about switching more of the text to serif default and adding a fancy intial capital for entries. Also needs to be fiddled with in two-column/three-column modes.
Corinthian
Notes: Inspired by a preview pic I saw on
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Issues: Uh, none that I know of. But I did code this at two am today. Possibly needs a rename (I was going 'I need something more interesting that 'Columns'...)
Fly Away
Notes: A sanctioned port of a custom LJ layout. Started out because I wanted the same layout for a journal I moved over *g*
Issues: Fixed-width at the moment, but I think I figured out how to change that. The original layout removed the header - I'm not sure how to add it back in attractively. Also not sure how I feel about the arrangement of entry footer stuff.
Rising
Notes:
rising's design, my code :)
Issues: Relative positioning with em-units leads to rounding errors. I think thicker borders will hide that and keep the dreaded 1px gap at bay? Secondary pages need some padding to make up for lack of icon.
Baroque
Notes: An attempt at an elegant one-column default layout.
Issues: Needs the top image flipped, and a nice little scrolly image seperator between entries. I'm also thinking about switching more of the text to serif default and adding a fancy intial capital for entries. Also needs to be fiddled with in two-column/three-column modes.
Corinthian
Notes: Inspired by a preview pic I saw on
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Issues: Uh, none that I know of. But I did code this at two am today. Possibly needs a rename (I was going 'I need something more interesting that 'Columns'...)
Fly Away
Notes: A sanctioned port of a custom LJ layout. Started out because I wanted the same layout for a journal I moved over *g*
Issues: Fixed-width at the moment, but I think I figured out how to change that. The original layout removed the header - I'm not sure how to add it back in attractively. Also not sure how I feel about the arrangement of entry footer stuff.
Rising
Notes:
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Issues: Relative positioning with em-units leads to rounding errors. I think thicker borders will hide that and keep the dreaded 1px gap at bay? Secondary pages need some padding to make up for lack of icon.
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Baroque currently suffers from 'let me whip up a rough draft for proof of concept and then not do anything else with it for four months'
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Not sure if I made sense there....lack of sleep. :(
Yeah, I know that one from experience.
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I am great at whipping up proof of concepts and then abandoning them for months XD
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The navigation looks great to me; the headings opposite the links create (for me) a kind of dynamic feel. It might be different for someone else. But I really like how the navigation and the entry text flows. It is a nice design.
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SEE ALSO MY BACKLOG OF COLOUR THEMES. XD
And yes, I do that thing too where something looks GREAT at 2 in the morning and then, in daylight, I'm like "um, what?" :P
Even though the changes to Corinthian are simple, though, it does change that feel of Crisped. I like it, I do.
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and yeah, I figured it justified making it it's own theme. I kind of love full-page content. Not that headers aren't bad, but having the whole expanse there looks nice.
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I think that maybe, having a little tiny bit of base padding on either side at default (my brain says 1em, maybe even 2em, but figure out what works) could help all the pages and would balance things out, and such. And that way you have some base padding that you have that doesn't affect the width of the header, which is the thing I don't like about setting the margin in the wizard. Maybe even like, 3 or 4 em, just enough to have a nice little border on each side and still have it have the /feel/ of a full width layout.
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I think Baroque has a lot of potential (and people will like it because there are lots of people who like one-column styles and we don't have enough as defaults). What you want to do make sense to me. Two things I'm wondering about: the very thin margin on the side of entries and the image between the navlinks and the upper modules. I think it needs to be separated but maybe not with this same big image again (maybe the entry separator would work better; or not ;))
I love Corinthian and would use it in my communities. It's everything I wanted Paletteable and T3 but I'd never understood why they didn't work for me until now. Simple but brilliant, and there's a lot of potential to go fiddle with details when you have such a clean, elegant layout. Also background textures... hmm... This actually ties in a project I never finished because I could never get it right and now I see why too. Ideas, ideas... *bg*
I like the design of Fly Away and the shift on the side is great and, again, something we don't have enough of. One idea (good or bad I don't know): make it possible to alternate background colors for the icon column. I also think the management icons might work better as text but that may too much (especially if it goes on two lines) so... maybe not.
Rising is not my style ;) but the work on borders is really intriguing and interesting and I wonder what the style would look like if you played with them a little more. Also this style would work so well with big banners it would be nice to have one theme with one so people can see that it can be done.
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Corinthian just kind of... clicked when I saw the preview that inspired it. That one was waaaay more pared down than this - no modules, fixed sidebar, stuff like that, but I realized the column layout would work just as well even with more 'stuff' there and - it really does. It's got a very clean, elegant feel to it.
EDIT: Oh, and now that I go and see what you mean about the margin in Baroque - that's an artifact of whatever code I pulled as the base (probably Paletteable as it's my go-to for a simple clean start), rather than an intentional design option, so I could happily go either way on it.
Unfortunately text links makes the footer even more confusing with Fly Away - you can see it here, and with use I've found that I have problems noticing the comment count line because of the layout, which is why it really needs fixing. Alternating colors for the icon background should be doable (I'll have to see if we have class selectors for even/odd entries like we do for comments), and it's a great idea.
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Oh, you're right. The big spacing and the alternating side thing makes it harder too. I think Transmogrified has alternating entries so you might find clues in its source file.
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Yeah, I think the alternating side thing is what kills it, but having it all on one side made it really unbalanced - it's kind of been a point of frustration (along with the fixed-width thing, but I found a fix for that working on Rising, so I just need to implement it). I did just check and even base TR has entry-wrapper-even and entry-wrapper-odd classes, because
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LOL. So, so true!
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.entry-wrapper-odd
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(if all you did was look up the entry wrappers, though, I don't think that counts as derivative *g*)
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