[OSM-talk] Front page design

[Andrew Findlay]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:26:51AM +0100, Tom Higgy wrote:

> Could you check again in Konquerer? I've added an explicit height so
> (hopefully) it'll fix the footer coming too high up.

Please don't use absolute positions and sizes like this! It makes the
pages very fragile. For example, see the attached image of what it looks
like in my browser: I happen to use a larger text size than the default,
and many people need it larger still due to poor eyesight.

The earlier version at http://dyoh.com/osm-draft-index.html copes
much better with different font sizes and different window sizes.

The new version validates as correct XHTML, but it has CSS errors:

	http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fhiggy.bandnet.org%2Fopenstreetmap%2Fdraft-index2.html

It does work well on a text-only browser (lynx) - well done!

I would suggest making the images links to sensible places. They are
placed under inviting headings, so they look as if they should be
clickable.

Andrew
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