[Rhodes22-list] The New Website

Rick Lange sloopblueheron at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 11:17:03 EDT 2020


Hi Peter,

It doesn't adjust at all for screen size.  What CMS are you using?

Regards,

Rick Lange


On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:20 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> First, it looks like the problem with the overflow in the header on mobile
> Chrome browsers has been fixed. Can you confirm?
>
>  Second, the issue with the page being short has nothing to do (I’m pretty
> sure) with the change I made to add Tom’s picture to the home page with an
> automatic slideshow.  On the topic of the slideshow, I could investigate
> how to do some kind of dissolve.  How fast the switch-over happens is easy
> to change.  I tried faster, and personally didn’t like it.
>
> The screen is short (again, I’m pretty sure) because I’ve been playing
> around with the code to try to make it so the content can scroll without
> the menus also scrolling.  The only way I’ve found to do that is to limit
> the size of web page.
>
> If you allow the web page to expand to accommodate the size of the
> content, then when you scroll, you’re scrolling the whole web page.  So,
> menus, header, everything scrolls.
>
> If you limit the size of the web page, you can make it so that when one
> section has more content than will fit, that section can scroll without
> changing the location of the surrounding sections.
>
> I will admit that as I’ve been working on the changes to the rhodes22.org
> <http://rhodes22.org/> website, I’ve been doing it with the mindset that
> it would be primarily used with desktop browsers. I assumed, and hoped,
> that it would also work OK on tablets.  To the extent I thought about
> phones, I imagined that at least they would be used in landscape mode.  In
> your screenshot, you appear to be using your phone in portrait mode.
> That’s not a use case I ever envisioned.
>
> Back at the beginning of our discussions about updating the website, some
> people advised using Wordpress in part because it would automatically
> handle these desktop vs table vs phone issues.  If it is really considered
> important that the website display appropriately with all devices in all
> orientations then maybe that’s the way to go.  I will feely admit that I
> don’t don’t know how to code for that.
>
> —Peter
>
>
>
> > On Oct 3, 2020, at 7:34 PM, Michael Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Peter,On my Samsung Android phone, using the Chrome browser, all that
> shows up on the front page is the attached image. Why is the page so
> short?Can you dissolve or slide to Tom's image and then back? A bit faster
> might work too.Mike
> > -------- Original message --------From: Peter Nyberg <
> peter at sunnybeeches.com> Date: 10/3/20  5:16 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: The
> Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> Subject: Re:
> [Rhodes22-list] The New Website Tom,I’ve been trying to think of a place to
> make use of the lovely picture you attached the other day, and I finally
> found one.Go to the new home page that for now is at
> http://sunnybeeches.com/rhodes22/ <http://sunnybeeches.com/rhodes22/> ,
> and then wait 11 seconds.—Peter> On Oct 2, 2020, at 8:18 AM, Tom Van Heule <
> tom.vanheule at intrinsicprograms.com> wrote:> > It is!!! Thanks Peter.> >
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 8:59 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> wrote:> >> Tom,>> >> That’s beautiful.  Is that your boat?  I’ll find a
> place for that>> somewhere.>> >> —Peter>> >>
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