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Posted by Andrew on 09/15/06 13:07
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:19:32 +0100, Dylan Parry
<usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote:
>Andrew wrote:
>
>> I am working on 3 'bare-bones' CSS templates. Can I have some
>> thoughts on the very beginnings of this work?
>
>It depends really on what content you have to put into the templates. I
>am presuming that you're going to use one of these templates for your
>own site? Anyway, I am basing this response on that (dangerous) assumption.
>
>> http://www.andrews-corner.org/2_column_header_footer.html
>
>This is a layout that people are comfortable with. It's an easy-to-use
>format, and the navigation is clearly set apart from the content. I
>would personally say this is best suited to you site.
>
>> http://www.andrews-corner.org/3_column_header_footer.html
>
>It's a familiar layout, like the above, but it really depends on whether
>you have content that warrants having the third column. I don't
>personally think that your site does, so I would probably not go down
>this route.
>
>> http://www.andrews-corner.org/1_column_flexible.html
>
>Boring ;) It's too much like a 1996-everything-is-centred layout for my
>liking, and doesn't look like it's taken anything in terms of thought or
>design skills to put it together. You could probably make it look very
>good if you spent a long time putting things together in Photoshop to
>spruce it up a bit, but it lacks the pre-built design elements that
>you'd get from using a column layout of some sort.
>
>Yes I realise that your current design is based on this theme, but
>evidentially you are looking for a change - so I suggest you make the
>most of it and go for something more interesting.
Hi Dylan,
Thanks for your thoughts on the 3 pages. In fact I will eventually
migrate my own small site to one of these templates. My plan was to
slowly work up all three over 6 months or so and then change.
You are quite right about the single-column template that is drawn
from my current site. It was directly inspired by several existing
sites and it bothers me more than a little that there is so little of
my own thought & design in it.
Thanks again for your time & trouble,
Andrew
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Andrew
http://www.andrews-corner.org/
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