[Geany] A new look?

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Sat Apr 2 09:58:55 UTC 2011


> Lex Trotman, sorry but i didn't quite understand the first part of your
> comment. You want the site to be wider?
> If that's the case i would disagree on a number of reasons. Some of them are
> that not EVERY developer has a widescreen monitor.
> And i have seen many that do and still use a resolution of about 1200px
> wide(!?). A width of 900-960px of part of the "best practices" in UX for
> websites. Also a wider site looks kind of ugly and hard to navigate.
>

I guess I wasn't clear enough, why make it fixed width at all?  The
point of HTML is that it can be reflowed to suit the users monitor, by
having a fixed width it wastes more than half of a modern monitor and
still won't fit on really small ones.

Web sites should not be done by pixels, they are not screen applications.

> About the menu in the sidebar, it looks really chaotic.

I wasn't supporting the current layout of the sidebar :-)  just the
principle that sidebars make more of the site visible.  Sure
experienced users will know where to look for things, but new users
shouldn't have to poke around menus to find things.  Its a real
turnoff if you can't find something on a site quickly ... oh damn its
too hard lets go try another IDE :-(
Again its a web page, not a GUI app.

Thats not to say that everything and the kitchen sink should be in the
sidebar, making it too cluttered is bad too.  Isn't web design fun :-)
... not.

 That's why i moved
> it to the top of the site. It's not so bad that the links are not directly
> accessible.

That I disagree with, see above.

This isn't some dynamic everyday website like twitter or
> facebook. Nobody's in a hurry, Geany isn't going anywhere :D

As I said above, newbies will if they can't find what they want.  If I
can't find the documentation for a new tool quickly on its website I
won't even bother to download it, too much of a waste of time, go
somewhere else.

> But i will have some spare time in a couple of days and i will make another
> version of the layout with a menu column on the left :)
>

Ok, lets see how it goes.  I'd suggest some examples but most websites
these days just make me cranky, must be getting old.

And thanks for the effort, I'm definitely not criticising you for the
contribution.

Cheers
Lex

> If there are any other suggestions, recommendations or complaints of any
> sort please let me know :)
>
> Cheers,
> Pockata
>
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