EN World Buttons (@Russ)

[Nifft]

If we want to cut down the button bar:

1/ Nobody needs both the Subscriber Content and the Subscribe! button. Show only the one that's appropriate to each viewer.

2/ WotBS and Space Fight! don't need their logo images. Remove them, save >50 pixels.

3/ There's a Search dropdown menu already. Do we need a graphical Search button?

Cheers, -- N

 

[Morrus]

3/ There's a Search dropdown menu already. Do we need a graphical Search button?

Apparently nobody can ever find it.

 

[mudbunny]

As it is, I still have to scroll to the right to read all of a post.

edit to add Only in this forum. In this forum there is a large black space between Space Fighth and Seacrh that isn't present on other forums.

Perhaps save some spce by making the buttons 2 lines as opposed to one??

Older
News

instead of Older News.

 

[Marius Delphus]

Awesome looking but yeah -- too doggone wide. Recommend changing the "longer" buttons to two lines of text (and of course keeping all buttons the same final height).

Edited to add: Incidentally, what font *is* that? It's bugging me that I don't know.

 

[weem]

Hmmm...

My assumption was that the buttons would drop a line on narrower resolutions (or when you narrowed your browser manually) as the text did before. 4 of these are smaller than the text was previously, and the others are about the same - but that might be something to consider (allowing them to stack). In most cases, they would not stack into more than 2 rows.

 

[weem]

Essentially (looking at the code) something like this might be better (this is simplified in order to show the basic structure of the table)...

<table class="tborder" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td colspan="3">The world's premier fan community for Dungeons & Dragons news and more!</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">[OldNews] [Newsletter] [SubCon] _{[WotBS] [SF!]</td>
<td style="width:100px;text-align:right;" valign="top">[Search]</td>
<td style="width:100px;text-align:right;" valign="top">[Scoop]</td>
</tr>}
</table>

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This would allow the buttons "Old News" -> "Space Fight!" to stack. Of course, you can keep it as is if you want - but the horizontal scrollbar is indeed a nasty little beast I avoid at all costs in my line of work, hehe

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Edited to add: Incidentally, what font *is* that? It's bugging me that I don't know.

It's called "300 Trojans" - you can download it for free here...

300 Trojans Font | dafont.com

 

[Marius Delphus]

Here's an example of the kind of thing I mean (I like gold, so I decorated them with gold ). I'm sure it's possible to knock a few pixels off the height and make them "match" the site better, but I had nothing better to do so I made a quick sketch. The width of this button bar is 600 px if the buttons are adjacent -- I stretched them out on a 640 px wide background.

But if the two-row thing works out, then I'm sure that'd look even better.

 

[Morrus]

I'm not keen on two rows of buttons simply because I'm conscious of pushing page content down the screen. Especially if there's an announcement running.

 

[weem]

I'm not keen on two rows of buttons simply because I'm conscious of pushing page content down the screen. Especially if there's an announcement running.

I guess another way to look at it is that while yes, stacking the buttons moves the content down a little bit, not allowing them to stack is (in many cases) hiding the entire right column ("Community Supporter Subscriptions" and "Visit Our Sponsors" boxes).

It's a trade-off for sure.

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In all honesty, I'm running at 1680 and so it's fine for me - but I understand the horizontal scrollbar frustration all too well and would avoid it at all costs. But that's just me and it's part of my work so I could be much more picky than most, hehe

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[mudbunny]

Not so much 2 rows of buttons, but have some of the longer buttons go to two rows worth of text.