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Re: fixed position sidebar and small screen/mobile devices?

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In article <8rkp9eFjhU1@mid.individual.net>,
 John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> wrote:

> I've made my first serious foray into css with a web layout that has 
> 'position: fixed' side and top bars...
...
> 
> Here's a 'real' site I'm working on:
> http://reading-skeptics.org.uk/home/

Before worrying about what so many different users on different 
platforms and devices will usefully receive, it might be better 
to start with a few basics like checking your html at 

<http://validator.w3.org/>

In my modern Safari browsers, absolutely nothing shows when your 
url is loaded. FF has more generous error correction, but that is 
a mixed blessing.

You are concerned with usability and small screens as well as 
large. So why would you have a banner that unnecessarily takes up 
so much of the vital vertical space at the very top of the 
webpage forcing almost everyone to scroll.

Have you seen what happens even to your banner when users have a 
text size you are not expecting? Small and your banner material 
begins to disappear! Even worse, what happens in terms of screen 
real estate gobbling when text is enlarged?

Why boast the xhtml logo on your site, why would you even if you 
had produced valid markup? (I won't say why use xhtml in the 
first place? <g>)

In general, try to get the habit of making more fluid and 
flexible designs that do not require so much scrolling, 
especially horizontal (your too wide montage on the contact page 
could be redesigned to still work for people who can't or do not 
want to have their browsers so wide. You could float the 
individual pics, position them, all sorts of things that would 
enable wrapping but still get the sense of a jumble of drinking 
discussers). 

Forget for quite a while browser sniffing, see what you can do 
without first.

-- 
dorayme

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fixed position sidebar and small screen/mobile devices? John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> - 2011-02-11 12:44 +0000
  Re: fixed position sidebar and small screen/mobile devices? dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2011-02-12 03:58 +1100

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