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#1 2013-08-11 15:02:12

springworks
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Registered: 2005-01-06
Posts: 172
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Insoluble Solutions

Here’s my latest Textpattern site to go live: Insoluble Solutions

Plugins used:

  • adi_contact
  • adi_menu
  • bot_write_tab_customize
  • rah_expanding
  • rah_function
  • rah_replace
  • rah_sitemap
  • smd_if
  • smd_macro
  • smd_query
  • soo_if_frontpage
  • upm_date_archive
  • zem_contact_lang
  • zem_contact_reborn

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#2 2013-08-11 21:33:16

gomedia
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: Insoluble Solutions

Very nice. Great colours. Some suggestions:

  1. make the hover a bit more obvious on the main buttons (e.g. change the colour of the whole button rather than just the “apps for business” bit)
  2. make sure the whole button triggers the hover rather than just the “apps for business” words & the icon
  3. the text links in the “our apps” submenu are truncated/busting out (make the submenu ul wider)
  4. the submenus disappear if the cursor dawdles over the blue gap between the top menu item & the submenu (maybe make it a blue border belonging to the submenu?)

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#3 2013-08-12 09:19:46

springworks
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Registered: 2005-01-06
Posts: 172
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Re: Insoluble Solutions

Thanks for the feedback Adi.

I’ve tweaked the main buttons to address points 1 and 2, plus I’ve adjusted the positioning of the sub-menu so hopefully the hover is more robust which should address point 4.

What browser are you seeing the truncated links in?

I’ve tested in Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE8, 9 and 10 and in all of these the long items in the Our Apps submenu just wrap over to a second line.

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#4 2013-08-12 13:50:28

gomedia
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: Insoluble Solutions

springworks wrote:

What browser are you seeing the truncated links in?

Safari 6.0 … have a look at this screen shot

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#5 2013-08-12 13:57:04

gomedia
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Posts: 1,373

Re: Insoluble Solutions

Just realised – it’s happening with a window width of 1280px.

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#6 2013-08-12 17:34:38

springworks
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Posts: 172
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Re: Insoluble Solutions

OK, I see what you mean now, but it is a bit strange how above 1280 pixels wide the menu wraps but it doesn’t below. There’s nothing in the CSS (that I can see) that is causing the change in behaviour so I’ve just increased the min-width to accommodate the longer sub-menu items.

When I launched the site, the submenu items were a lot shorter (they were basically just the app name). Obviously the client has edited them since the site has gone live, which has highlighted the issue.

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#7 2013-08-12 21:31:19

gomedia
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Registered: 2008-06-01
Posts: 1,373

Re: Insoluble Solutions

Yep, looking good!

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