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levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve.
For one, the “blogs” left and right don’t affect each other. Flip a page on one (or change section on the right) and the other stays where it is, so long as you have cookies enabled and haven’t entered the site at an individual article.
Underneath the main entries on the left there is/are a leader (or two) to the next and/or previous article, even when the main is individual.
If the microblogs (up top on the main page) have come from a tip-off, the tipster is credited in an automatically numbered footnote (on the whatnot pages, not up front) which starts back at 1 on each page. Microblog writer credits are initials only and in line with the text.
Looks best in CSS-3 enabled browsers as it uses the round corners attribute.
Painfully hard high-five to all on this forum who helped out with the various stages of this site, and to the plug-in writers.
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Last edited by hicks (2010-04-16 15:45:49)
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
Do you really want to use this this ‘Public Safety Message’ and let users not be able to view the site if they’re not able to install a better browser? (I know, I should harrass my IT-department for not installing a better browser yet, but I already did and they’re not listening.)
Bottom-line: now I can’t view the site. My 2 cents: I think it’s better to give visitors a minimal browsing experience than no experience at all.
…Prrrrrrrr…
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
I really like the Magazine-Look! I think it looks best on upright-format viewports (like my one with 1000*1400px or IPads etc) …
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#4 2010-04-16 08:31:03
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
Wow, really stylish!
hicks wrote:
…Looks best in CCS-3 enabled browsers as it uses the round corners attribute.
For a quick non-js solution you can try this
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TNT wrote:
Do you really want to use this this ‘Public Safety Message’ and let users not be able to view the site if they’re not able to install a better browser? (I know, I should harrass my IT-department for not installing a better browser yet, but I already did and they’re not listening.)
Bottom-line: now I can’t view the site. My 2 cents: I think it’s better to give visitors a minimal browsing experience than no experience at all.
I hear you. But being new to CSS, I didn’t want to have to learn and work out all the absurd work-arounds for IE. Being a stubborn sod, I still don’t. For a start, I’m on a Mac and have no way to test them. If no-one pandered to IE’s quirks, perhaps everyone’s IT people would give them a browser that played by the rules, and perhaps Microsoft would code a compliant browser. Wouldn’t that be nice? Ah, we can dream.
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#7 2010-04-16 17:19:42
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
hicks wrote:
Thanks. Does it work now?
Oops! Sorry it was not a wise suggestion: everything is messed up now. You better remove it and forget ie.
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redbot wrote:
Oops! Sorry it was not a wise suggestion: everything is messed up now. You better remove it and forget ie.
I’d love to forget IE. I took out the behaviour bit and left in the border-radius for those future browsers. Does it work as before now?
Ta.
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#9 2010-04-16 17:32:28
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
I really like the looks of your site!
One question: your page /shorts/ seems to be exactly the same as your front page. Was that intended?
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
Els,
Thanks, and yes. The txp:article and txp:article_custom flip from one to the other, but it looks the same; same for Reviews, Articles and Glimpses. The stuff on the left doesn’t change, even if you weren’t on the newest article there.
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#11 2010-04-16 17:40:59
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Re: levelmag.com: A simple look with the odd trick up its sleeve
hicks wrote:
…I took out the behaviour bit and left in the border-radius for those future browsers. Does it work as before now?
I don’t know what have you done but now you have perfect rounded corners in ie7-8
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redbot wrote
I don’t know what have you done but now you have perfect rounded corners in ie7-8
Nice! Though I am still booing Microsoft.
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