I Concur: “Embrace The Scroll”
Echoing the rebirth of thought in web design, I read (along with much of the rest of the design blogosphere apparently) an interesting if somewhat controversial postulate in web design: “Embrace the scroll”
A Brief History
For those not privy to the discussion, after the initial revolution in web design when pages/sites went from LOOOOOOONG pages of default font/Times text on a gray background to intricate and fairly short delicate table-based layouts with complicated grids of sliced images, the web-design gold standard had changed significantly. This was helped in no small part by companies like Studio Archetype, founded and lead by Clement Mok (which was then gobbled up by Sapient) who specialized and revolutionized the web with terse, tight,and intricate designs (read more about him here
In My Humble Opinion
… both philosophies are correct. After all, scrolling has become one of, if not the premier, and most commonplace accepted design standards. A grandma who just figured out how to look at pics of her spoiled grand kids in the bathtub knows how to scroll more than she knows what her AOL software/browser is actually connecting to. Scrolling is in and it isn’t going anywhere for the time being. But dammit, leave it some overkill-tendancied and tasteless designers to over exploit it and have us downloading 12,980,675 pixel-tall web pages. There’s a happy medium, even though it’s a gray area, that designers should respect. People don’t mind scrolling, but keep it within reason.
Having said that, read through some of the buzz on the web. I was drawn into the discussion at Dan Cederholm’s site and his own home is a perfect example of tastefully limiting just how much a user needs to scroll - his post on scolling can be found here
Some more worth reading:
http://designforcommunity.com/essay6.html
http://www.powazek.com/2005/09/000537.html
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/footers_are_the_new_sidebars.php
Hello again Denis -
this post isn’t specifically “taft”, but it’s the latest one under the Taft heading, which is why I’m commenting here.
I downloaded the Taft distro again, seeing that you stated it had been updated to 1.01; however, the file I downloaded is exactly the same as I got in March. Is there another link to the 1.01 download?
Thanks….
Vkaryl,
Thanks for the recent comment. I was seriously wondering what had happened to you as you had such great enthusiasm for the Taft theme template, which I appreciate. Indeed, Taft has been updated to 1.01 - I seemed to have never updated the stylesheet with the appropriate version number, but nonetheless the changes were implemented.
What specific changes were you looking for? As of yet, the PNG issue is still (unfortunately)… the PNG issue. Other than that, let me know and I’ll try to update it for you.
Cheers!
Hi Denis,
I installed the only download for taft available at http://www.secretweaponlabs.com/words/taft-10/ but when I uploaded the the theme into my wordpress 2.0 themes directory, I get only the raw text in my browser [pls see: http://www.geocities.com/sitestuff2001/wp/taft1_inwpadminchosen.gif and [http://www.geocities.com/sitestuff2001/wp/taft1_inwpadmin.gif].
I’ve tried it both my local[windows] and remote [linux] wp installs and the problem persists.
What do you think could be the problem?
Xavier,
Thanks for posting abou this. I haven’t tried any of the the themes yet in WP2.0. This is some kind of a nasty bug that I’ll have to look into. For the time being, I haven’t the slightest clue of why this could be happening, but I’ll look into it and get back to you!
Hello again Denis. I have been so buried with work I’ve not had a moment to breathe it seems since I last posted!
Nor have I had a chance to do one bit of reinstalling etc. Though I’m planning to remedy that now that my server-moving about seems to have settled finally….
As to specific changes: I began having a problem with the Taft graphics failing to completely display (not the pngs, the jpgs!) about the time I posted here. I was hoping a reinstall with the new distro might sort that out. I will post back once I see what’s what (if anything!) with it.
It is just barely possible that the new server will solve the problem. In any case, I will let you know. Assuming RL doesn’t bury me again….
V,
Thanks for keeping us posted. Who is RL??
Let me know the status after your move, I’d be curious to find out of any problems.
Hi Emile….
Heh. “RL” is a what, not a who. Leftover computer gaming acronym for “Real Life” - meaning the combination of my web design/management business, my retired husband, our horses, hunting seasons, the holidays…. like that….
Denis and Emile:
I would like to report I have Taft back in proper shape at http://vkaryl.net/talespinner/. In the various server moves etc, it appears that some of the files got corrupted (not necessarily an unusual occurence). I uploaded a fresh set of files with the tweaks I’d made replicated, and all’s good.
Now if I can just find the time to move all the posts as I’d intended to! *sigh*
Thanks again, gentlemen, for a truly OUTSTANDING theme.