‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.
Recent changes to the fma homepage have, hopefully, created a ‘best of all worlds’ layout.
Other than a — hopefully attractive — minimalist revision of homepage styling, I’ve been focusing on overall page layout with a view to achieving the following.
I believe I’ve succeeded (more or less) in those aims with the use of a percentage page width, ‘same-side floats’, and an em-width sidebar. Whatever your window size, however small or big your font, you should get the most out of this layout. It’s a technique that is by-no-means revolutionary but one which I haven’t come across in the wild before.
The main issue that remains is that of the box sizing for each individual article. To achieve a reasonable grid layout, these article boxes all need to be of a uniform width and height, meaning that content might overflow. I played around with opacity, and I’m also very tempted to use overflow: auto as a scrollbar-inducing safety net, but my current low-tech method is to simply ensure the amount of content is within the limits I’ve set, encouragin brevity.
Much of this work has been inspired / encouraged by comments on the excellent css discuss mailing list, so many thanks go to all contributors. All comments on this approach will be very gratefully received.
‘Five Minute Argument’ is the personal site of Bobby Jack, a London-based Web Developer.