[geeklog-devel] Geeklog Professional CSS theme

[Dan Stoner]

Am I correct that the current Professional theme (as seen on
geeklog.net site) uses a fluid layout (fixed width for the blocks, but
"fluid with a minimum width" for the center content)?

And the new theme would change this to a "fixed" width overall?

Do you know how this will look for people running a two column layout
rather than three?


So I was about to spout my personal angst against sites that are
locked to narrow widths and prevent me from using all the screen real
estate on my hard-earned 1920x1200 monitor... but then I looked at the
web sites of the "big three" CMSes:

All are "Fixed Width" at 960px (drupal actually uses 940px for some
content nodes).

Note: The reported widths are from the project web sites, which may or
may not match the default theme from a fresh install of each project.
I got the widths by inspecting the site with the Firefox Web Developer
extension.

See:
http://wordpress.org/news:
http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html
http://drupal.org/about


So as much as I have a personal preference for fluid layouts, it seems
that 960 fixed width would be a good choice for the default theme.


Some references:

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/a-guide-on-layout-types-in-web-design/
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1324265

Cheers!

- Dan Stoner


On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Tom <websitemaster at cogeco.net> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Soon I will be adding a new theme to the repository that will hopefully
> replace our current default theme for version 1.8.0 after some work/tweaks
> has been done on it. It will be in a directory called professional_css. The
> themes authors are Fumito Arakawa & Ivy (from Geeklog.jp) and is available
> for download on Geeklog.net (look for ProfessionalCSS_en). To start, I would
> like to thank them for all of the work they have put into the theme.
>
> Besides eliminating table tags this theme does a number of things
> differently. So if you are interested, I would suggest at least downloading
> the theme and take a look at the readme file for more information. If people
> disagree on how certain things are done in the theme I would like to hear
> about it now before more work gets put into this.
>
> Before I add the theme to the repository, I will be updating the theme to
> support the new template changes we have currently in 1.8.0 along with
> adding the new images Rouslan did for us. Once the new theme gets added into
> the repository if anyone does any theme changes, like adding new template
> variables or theme files, please make sure to also add them to the new
> theme.
>
> I do not expect this new theme to look exactly the same as our current
> default theme. It will look similar but if some things are changed around
> for the better, then I am all for it. The one thing I do not plan on
> changing is the color scheme. Rouslan has already put a lot of work into the
> new logo and icons for the site. We can save the major theme design changes
> and page designs like this for when we start the new site redesign at a
> later date.
>
> Once I have the new theme in the repository, people are more than welcome to
> help out. Let's just communicate through email or on the mailing list just
> to makes sure we know what we are all working on.
>
> The first thing I will be doing is working on the general layout which
> actually brings me to my first question.
>
> The new theme is currently has a fixed width of 960 pixels. I would actually
> like to keep the width fixed as I think it looks much better on the larger
> monitors most people use these days. It also makes designing new pages
> easier.
>
> To help in the decision I took a look at Google Analytics for a site that
> gets a large number of North American visitors. Here are the top ten screen
> resolutions:
>
> 1. 1280x800     19.60%
> 2. 1024x768     15.41%
> 3. 1366x768     11.45%
> 4. 1440x900     7.73%
> 5. 1280x1024    5.77%
> 6. 320x480      5.16%
> 7. 1680x1050    4.35%
> 8. 1920x1080    3.10%
> 9. 1600x900     2.56%
> 10. 1920x1200   2.03%
>
> For those of you who are interested, here is some info on what browsers are
> being used:
>
> 1. Internet Explorer             40.01%
> 2. Firefox                      26.77%
> 3. Safari                       17.87%
> 4. Chrome                       11.69%
> 5. Opera                        1.06%
> 6. Mozilla Compatible Agent     0.79%
> 7. Opera Mini                   0.76%
> 8. BlackBerry8530               0.15%
> 9. BlackBerry9700               0.13%
> 10. Mozilla                     0.11%
>
> And since Java Support is an issue for some of the Admin configuration:
>
> 1. Yes          78.75%
> 2. No   21.25%
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
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