Site redesign completed

by Volker Weber

I have completed the redesign for vowe.net (as if it is ever complete). The content from vowe.de has migrated to the right hand navigation. "vowe's choice" is a blog in itself and also sits in the right hand menu under "Certificates". It has a very similar design tweaked to its purpose.

The old vowe.de has retired. This new site is available as vowe.de or vowe.net. Comments very welcome !

BTW: The picture on the front page does not go away. It lives right here.

Comments

Pity. Not that I wouldn't like the look and feel of vowe.net but I'm for sure going to miss vowe.de. Well, I guess I'm just used to see the familiar page every morming when drinking the first cup of coffee while wondering whether there will be a new picture on the front page :-)

Stefan Rubner, 2002-09-09 16:35

I like the new layout - very clean and easier to read the links than red on black was! (Yeh - my eyes are getting ol too...)

Hmm - my eyes really are getting ol_d_ ... Should have spotted that before I hit send ;-)

Stefan, I promise to publish a picture of your's truly here once in a while.

Good Job Volker!
Ich muss allerdings gestehen das mir das Navigation Pane besser auf der linken Seite gefallen wuerde. Ueblicherweise sitze ich immer so vor Bildschirmen das die rechten 2 Drittel (Content) genau vor mir sind. Wie waer's mit Benutzer definierbaren Panes. :-)
Ansonsten werde auch ich weiterhin meine erste Tasse Kaffee bei vowe.net geniessen.

Danke für die Blumen.

Bei vowe.net war die Navigation immer schon rechts. Bei vowe.de war sie links. Ich könnte in der Tat wählbar machen, ob sie links oder rechts erscheint, aber dazu müsste ich wieder von Tables auf Floats für die Positionierung der Spalten gehen. Da ist Internet Explorer vor. Das Wunderwerk hat nämlich einen bösen Bug in Version 6 eingeführt. Alles bleibt's dabei: Navigation rechts. :-)

Für den Float-Bug im Internet Exploder 6 gibt es mittlerweile einen Workaround, und zwar in JavaScript:

if (document.all && window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", fixWinIE);
function fixWinIE() {
if (document.body.scrollHeight document.all.content.style.display = 'block';
}
}

"MSIE6 has trouble calculating the heights of block level elements. [...] [The browser caches the values it calculates on one page of a site and incorrectly applies those values to other pages of the site.] This is the reason that manually reloading [...] "fixed" the bug on a page by page basis. [...] Aaron Boodman [2] wrote a tiny JavaScript function that, in the presence of IE/Windows, iterates an existing property of the content block, causing the page to reflow and display correctly" - klappt wunderbar (solange JavaScript aktiviert ist natürlich)

Das Workaround kam übrigens ziemlich genau an dem Tag heraus, als erstmals das neue vowe-Layout, noch ohne die Inhalte von vowe.de, öffentlich zu sehen war... ;-)

[1] http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0802d.html#csslayoutrevisited
[2] http://www.youngpup.net/ [Was man sich auch als Mozilla-Fan mal mit dem Internet Explorer anschauen sollte]

Ich hatte noch ein Problem mit dem Layout, das erst sichtbar wurde, als die Navigation länger als der Body wurde. Dann gab es ein Wrap-around um den Body. Dann habe ich etwas rumgefummelt und mich schliesslich Zeldmann's Meinung angeschlossen, dass man ein Spaltenlayout besser über Tabellen macht.

Dann sind wir schon zu dritt ;-)

Stefan Rubner, 2002-09-10 22:40

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