New design
New design: I’m not really all that happy with it, but it embodies the principles I wanted (scroll right rather than down to get to articles on the front page, dates displayed vertically) and frankly I am bored with poncing around with it. I’d like more images, too, but I have more important stuff and it’s become a black hole for time. I’ll leave this up until it annoys me enough to do better again.
I have a 2d scrolling mouse at work, it has two buttons. I don’t think I ever used the other wheel until yesterday…
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Nice idea.
Our research at Cualinet, though, suggested that users dislike horizontal scrolling as a necessary interaction method.
(Personally, I hate horizontal scrolling, which is why I mention this at all. :)
To Martin: 2D-scrolling wheelmice do exist! Microsoft have one in the pipeline, too: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3131453.stm
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Really? It’s not broken in Firebird in my testing, on either Linux or Win2k.
Did I say I hate web design? I hate web design.
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I like it. Nice idea. But (isn’t there always a but) it’s broken in Firebird. The content is not clearing the header, making reading entries impossible. Here is a cropped image, with the scroll bar all the way up:
http://solitude.vkps.co.uk/Images/KryoTest.gif
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Permanently switching styles should be supported by your browser too. ;) The fact that no browser does this is not strictly my fault. :)
I’ll have a think about it; last time I tried using a JS switcher it screwed up half the time, but I’ll have a look…
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I am, but I need to change the style every time I want to read the site. Ice, Coffee and Blue(Red) are just so much more readable and it would be nice to see those immediately.
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Nope. Switching styles should be supported by your browser :-)
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Huh
While an interesting idea, maybe you could drop in the javascript style switcher ala zeldman.com ?
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Knackers. I don’t have a mac :( I’ll have a think about that, but it look s awfully like Safari and Camino aren’t handling position:fixed correctly. Camino flamin’ well ought to, it’s Mozilla under the covers. Bah. More thought required. I hate web design.
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Very nice idea. Unfortunately, it doesn’t quite work in any of the mac browsers I tried. Camino and Safari don’t have the vertical positioning of the content right, and IE gets the left hand nav totally wrong.
Some screenshots:
camino
safari
ie/mac
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Yeah, I know it’s a little broken in IE, but somehow I just can’t bring myself to care enough, heh. Will fix it at some point…
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Veeery cool… altho I love the right scrolling idea per se, it’s not very ‘useable‘, as a wheelmouse doesn’t scroll sideways sadly.
The ‘white gap in the middle’ Paul comments on is only visible in IE, which doesn’t handle that kind of CSS properly.
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Woah, I though the site was broken for a minute :) Interesting design, like a lot of it, but you have a huge white gap in the middle and you can scroll down and right because of the nav bar stuff.
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