[Pmwiki-users] CSS layout in pmwiki-0.6

John Feezell JohnFeezell
Thu Jan 22 14:37:19 CST 2004


I've agree with placing the logo to the left.  It is much better than any 
other location.

While I was tinkering with this, I made the group name a little larger and 
decided that it look better.  I did this because in my mind the group and 
pagename work together and it seemed that they should both stand out from 
the rest of the header items.

/JF

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:35 -0700, Patrick R. Michaud 
<pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> First, my sincerest thanks to all who are sending back responses
> about improving the default layout--your suggestions are
> excellent and definitely helping to improve PmWiki.
>
> Rather than reply to each message individually, I'm going to
> try to combine my responses into a single message and
> hope I can stay somewhat coherent...
>
> I agree strongly with the concept that logically related
> items should be grouped together...I was trying (somewhat
> unsuccessfully) to achieve this in the layout.  Note that
> the actual choice of links can change--I threw "WikiHelp"
> into the mix just to provide a bit of balance in the display,
> but I don't think it's really needed and could be eliminated
> from the header/layout (indeed, has that page ever/yet
> offered any really useful information?).  So, the only
> site-wide or group-wide pieces of information that are
> needed would be "RecentChanges" and the Search, and
> RecentChanges could conceivably move into the title area
> instead of the header area.
>
> I've redone the layout based on this and would appreciate
> more review/comments:  http://www.pmichaud.com/work/beta/pmwiki.php.
>
> Other thoughts:
>
> I don't like layouts where the logo occupies the left
> margin by itself, reducing the space for the body.
> By default I think the body should take up the available
> width unless there is something else (such as a sidebar
> or menu) occupying the left margin along with the logo.
>
> Also, by default I think a logo should go in the upper-left-corner
> of the display, as opposed to top center or within
> the page content itself.  Logo in upper-left-corner is just
> the common convention for web sites and I think there needs
> to be a good reason to go against widely-held conventions.
>
> Pm
>



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