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From: "Angie Mattholie" <>
Subject: RE: FreeBMD Home Page Design
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:44:08 +0100
In-Reply-To: <E1BPJMO-0004zO-00@zinc.btinternet.com>


I'm not an expert! But...
I think the problem is that web designers have no control over the width of
the page - that is dependant upon the font size and screen resolution of
each individual user.
Therefore, as the pages load from the left, if you are using a low screen
res and/or high font size, you lose the right-hand side of the page. Which
is a pain if it is the navigation bar/index!

But otherwise, you are right, it would be easier.....

Angie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loraine [mailto:]
> Sent: 16 May 2004 11:59
> To:
> Subject: RE: FreeBMD Home Page Design
>
>
> Why, oh why, on web pages are the 'index' button always on the
> LEFT? Look at
> any book and the index indentations etc are on the RIGHT. As most of the
> population is right-handed it makes life much simpler. In western printing
> (at least) the eyes is therefore trained to look at the right
> hand side of
> the page (anything on the left is lost in the binding) That being the case
> wouldn't web pages be much easier to navigate if such a simple and
> fundamental change were made to most of them? The eye would then
> be looking
> in the place they expect to see things like search, transcribers page etc.
> These could actually be put down the RHS of the page and the rest of the
> page reformatted (bit better than budged over a bit!!) to fit.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: camred [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 11:16 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: FreeBMD Home Page Design
>
> May I suggest putting the other four sponsors logos from the side / bottom
> of the Home / search page into the band at the top of the page ( two each
> side of the Ancestry ) this may make it clearer that the top band is
> advertising with perhaps a different back ground colour.
>
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> Michael Fudge wrote:
>
> >Perhaps an option might be to float the advert to the right hand side of
> the
> >page, move the FreeBMD logo up to top centre of the page and
> have the four
> >buttons (Search, Information, Join FreeBMD & Transcribers' Page) in a
> >vertical stack to the left of the FreeBMD logo.
> >Difficult to reproduce here but something like this?
> >
> >+---------------------------------------------------------+
> >|Search o |
> >|Information g A d v e r t |
> >|Join FreeBMD o |
> >|Transcribers' Page L |
> >+---------------------------------------------------------+
> >
> >Would this help?
> >
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