Regarding the Code::Blocks homepage design contest

[Anonymous]

I havent really looked at the other designs, but i thing the current website is already about as good as it can get.
When i first came to this site i immediately got the impression this site looks simple and professional.
Everything is at the place where i expected it to be. Its really one of the best ones i have seen.
I really dont know why you would need to change it, unless somethig really REALLY great came along(which i cant really imagine).

I would just tweak the current design a little.

[mandrav]

The current site is stock Postnuke. If it's one of the best you 've seen, then you might not have seen many Postnuke sites
Note that we 're not talking about the forums, but for the main site...

Yiannis.

[mandrav]

.. And here is one like 2b, but with borders (doesn't work with IE, though)
http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks2c/

That's very nice

Yiannis.

[Urxae]

I like that design, but like Rick I'd like to note that those sites are very slow on my poor laptop. Especially, but not only, scrolling. Specs: 750 Mhz, Win2k, Firefox 1.0.4.

This seems to be caused by the fixed header and footer boxes: I copied the page locally and removed all "position: fixed;" lines from the css (and divs extra1 and extra2 from the html), which made the page much faster to scroll.
Note: that test was performed using http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks1/, which was the latest version at the time. The newer ones are still slow to scroll though, and I imagine for the same reason.

So far I prefer 2c, but could you please make the header and footer boxes scroll with the rest of the page instead of being "position: fixed"? That would improve it a lot on those with computers of the slower variety .

[Profic]

I like 2c too
However I didn't notice slowness (well I have 2.8GHz cpu in my laptop )
I'll prefer top and bottom boxes scrolled with text as fvbommel

[David Perfors]

I like 2c to, and I also didn't notice the slowness (also 2.8GHz in my computer )

When i first came to this site i immediately got the impression this site looks simple and professional.
Everything is at the place where i expected it to be.

The new layout looks much the same, only the colors are diffrent, please take a look

oh, btw, why should the header and footer be fixed?

[per_eckerdal]

Finally..
Now I've redone the rounded borders. (The previous system wasn't very good)

For the header and the footer, I've done a compromise: You can switch between the two by clicking the underscore and "overscore" in the bottom-right corner. You can also switch between fixed and percentual width by clicking the other "sidescores".

The system isn't perfected yet; Opera flickers when the settings have been changed and IE doesn't show the controls, but that can be fixed.

The new page is here:
http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks3/
(And that was TOTALLY impossible to guess..  :wink: )
/Per Eckerdal (per [dot] eckerdal [at] gmail [dot] com)

[per_eckerdal]

@mispunt:
I "position:fixed" the header and the footer because I think it's a cool and not-very-common design feature. Do you think I should set the non-fixed version as default?

[Anonymous]

i still like more the drupal themes and design

[rickg22]

Position:fixed has always been flawed in IE, and given the fact that 90% of ppl use IE... i recommend not using it.

[Anonymous]

[almost flameage]
Oh, that's very useful feedback!
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To be honest, I do also think the Drupal designs are nicer (design-wise at least), but these guys wanted a plain and functional design. That's why the design is so simple.

When I think about it, I think I will change the colors a little to give a fresher impression.
/Per Eckerdal

[Anonymous]

@rickg22:
I've done it so that it doesn't use position:fixed in IE. The design works in (at least) Firefox, IE and Opera.

[per_eckerdal]

The last two posts are from me.

[per_eckerdal]

I've played around with different background colors, but I think the previous one was the best:
http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks4a/
http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks4b/
http://www.shell.linux.se/edev/design/codeblocks4c/

Anyways, now I think the design is almost finished. The only thing that is left is to see if it works in Mac browsers. I can't do that now, though, since I cant reach my mac right now.

Do you think I should test it in any other Windows browser than Opera, Firefox and IE?

(BTW, sorry if I seemed rude in my previous posts, that wasn't my intention :oops:)
/Per Eckerdal

[David Perfors]

Yes I think that the default should be non-fixed.

*thinking about colors*

I don't know which one is the best, b looks nice, but I am glad you have the borders so I think it is a or c where you can see the blocks even without borders.

*another thinking about colors eeeehhhhhmmmm*

I think I am going for c.

*Again eeehhmm*

Yes I am going for c