Ivar T Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 ... for a blog. I was thinking of a horizontal blog - where the posts are listed up horizontally... with newspaper-like columns that cut the text into pieces. Hopefully I could add some JavaScript buttons to make it easily navigatable. After google-searching the ideas of horizontal sites and newspaper columns, I've seen it both roundly discouraged... but I'm inspired anyway ;-p I guess this is something I can do to figure out more PHP and JavaScript. If I eventually finish the theme I might begin blogging about crazy ideas on the blog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 If you can make it work, go ahead, but there's a reason why blogs are vertical... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjpriest25 Posted September 25, 2008 Share Posted September 25, 2008 Yea, I'm not sure people's screens are big enough to do that either. Plus with the mouse scroll usually going up and down... I say go ahead and try it if you want to, but I personally wouldn't mess with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashoat Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 Scrolling up and down is significantly easier than scrolling sideways, mainly due to the scroll wheel on most modern mice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 Ofcourse I don't expect it to be much user-friendly, ;-p A name I might give the blog is "Why stuff doesn't work". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JcX Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 That might attracts visitors to your site..... well..... for complaining on your design style I guess.... Further more, it's like ancient for us to read upside down, not sideways..... *Ancient Chinese reads from top to bottom, right to left Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted September 26, 2008 Share Posted September 26, 2008 That might attracts visitors to your site..... well..... for complaining on your design style I guess.... Further more, it's like ancient for us to read upside down, not sideways..... *Ancient Chinese reads from top to bottom, right to left We still read from top to bottom sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 A problem I'm having is trying to get all the posts to actually be listed up horizontally - Browsers seem very eager to put one element below the other. When I'm looking at the site The Horizontal Way I see that they have had to define the width of the document's body. The JavaScript code that I use to cut up the posts into newspaper columns apparently needs to run before the body's width is defined... and I'm just beginning to learn JavaScript... ;-p Can't turn back yet though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 A problem I'm having is trying to get all the posts to actually be listed up horizontally - Browsers seem very eager to put one element below the other. When I'm looking at the site The Horizontal Way I see that they have had to define the width of the document's body. The JavaScript code that I use to cut up the posts into newspaper columns apparently needs to run before the body's width is defined... and I'm just beginning to learn JavaScript... ;-p Can't turn back yet though. *stares at Horizontal Way* Very cool site. But there are some problems with the arrows that scroll horizontal, not to mention some rendering errors when I scroll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 27, 2008 Author Share Posted September 27, 2008 I'm already inspired by that italian web developer who made that site. Apparently he offers some tools useful for making horizontal sites, like the scrolling feature and arrows on the Horizontal Way. I want to follow that guy's blog, but I really don't know what the blog's RSS is showing... doesn't seem to be the posts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindstorm8191 Posted September 27, 2008 Share Posted September 27, 2008 That HorizontalWay site looks quite interesting actually. I notice that things are merely placed into block, which can be clicked for further information - but alot is placed on the page as is. Perhaps website news could be made like this: have blocks for different stories, including the opening of the main story, and clicking on it will bring up the rest for you to view. Though it seems the horizontal layout is only so useful. I think it would be more useful for the blocks to be like cards, of some kind, and you could somehow shuffle them around until you see one that attracts your attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 28, 2008 Author Share Posted September 28, 2008 This is very much under construction, have only tried it in Firefox: http://spektralen.site90.com/ I also wanted to have a drawings' gallery over the posts, while still mantaining a minimum height. It seems difficult to get the whole thing vertically aligned. The only way I can think of is to put a table and cell around the whole thing and get JavaScript to define the height of the table relative to the client's window - that I wont do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wizard Posted September 28, 2008 Share Posted September 28, 2008 This is very much under construction, have only tried it in Firefox: http://spektralen.site90.com/ I also wanted to have a drawings' gallery over the posts, while still mantaining a minimum height. It seems difficult to get the whole thing vertically aligned. The only way I can think of is to put a table and cell around the whole thing and get JavaScript to define the height of the table relative to the client's window - that I wont do. Nice job. To align them vertically, you could make a css class that has the same top values and assign that to all the posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JcX Posted September 29, 2008 Share Posted September 29, 2008 T'was truely interesting though.... it reminds me of some flash using this kind of concept too... The main content slides through each other horizontally, kinda looks like this http://www.crisiscore.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivar T Posted September 29, 2008 Author Share Posted September 29, 2008 Finally managed to get the newspaper columns to work in Chrome aswell - I've begun using chrome while I cruise the internet (screenshot). The blog looks rather nasty in IE (no newspaper columns and the posts are listed up vertically - conflicting with the rest of the layout) but that's not too much of a tragedy IMHO. I think I'll have this blog as a personal pad for more *artistic* purposes, rather than professional, and in my preconceptions I don't have to give a s*** about accessibility if that's my plan. If I figure out how to make it work in IE aswell, well then that's great, but it's not priority. Will probably try Wizard's tip next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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