Comments on: Created in Birmingham evolves http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Louis Hudson http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19337 Wed, 28 May 2008 16:12:03 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19337 Nice concept for the font, but I agree that Sans Serif should be used for smaller text. Serif’s aren’t particularly dyslexia friendly and the creative industry’s rammed with dyslexics like spazzo here. The posts seem a bit squashed up to the side too. I think that could be fixed by making the CiB title the same width as the posts so as to make the eye flow. It might help distinguish the title & menu from the text ad. It’s nearly there though.

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By: Chris Unitt http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19324 Wed, 28 May 2008 13:06:54 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19324 I’ve always wondered how often people use calendars for navigation. There’s always the archive for the legacy thing.

As for listings, I’m looking to pull something in from elsewhere – there’s no way I can generate something myself. I like the idea of calendar integration and there’s a couple of ways that could work. Hmm.

Cheers for that. More thoughts welcome.

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By: Katie http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19323 Wed, 28 May 2008 12:58:57 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19323 Right-ho here’s a thought.

The idea of day-by-day navigation, I like, as I said.

As it’s designed at the moment however, when we get to June, it looks as if all of May will disappear? This wouldn’t be so useful after all. Also, I can’t see there’s currently a way of getting back further than May 1st, apart from clicking back page by page.

Perhaps more of a regular calendar sort of thing’d do the trick, so we can search by day, week, month and even by year?

I think this sort of search could be useful, not least as a kind of legacy thing to be able to see what was going on in Birmingham this time last year.

Oooh, another thought – this calendar could include a note of any festivals/events that are coming up; “Put this date in your diaries” kind of thing. I’d find this quick overview of what’s coming up pretty handy as there are times I forget what’s going on …

Oooh, ooooh! There could be a subscription thing so it can then be read into iCal – I think that’s possible?!

Okay, sorry, that’s enough – better get back to work.

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By: stef http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19318 Wed, 28 May 2008 12:06:59 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19318 @all Okay I’m stumped. I think that we’ve just got one of those weird browser issues pretty much _only_ in Internet Explorer 6 and I don’t have a version that shows the problem so I can’t test it.

I’ll find some time to fix the problem but I’ve got to get back to some urgent work on something else now.

Really sorry to the IE6 users amongst you who are seeing this right hand column problem.

I’ll try to get this fixed asap.

Any other problems/critique/ideas/suggestions just let us know.

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By: Jon Bounds http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19317 Wed, 28 May 2008 11:48:08 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19317 Browsershots.org can help this sort of cross browser testing (sure Stef knows about it, but it’s handy tip for everyone). It’s not quick as a number of computers running different operating systems really go to your site and submit screenshots new CriB design looks to be ok on most

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By: Chris Unitt http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19313 Wed, 28 May 2008 10:57:17 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19313 Yep, as per the post – there will be lots of lovely things to go in the sidebar.

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By: simon gray http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19312 Wed, 28 May 2008 10:55:49 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19312 @stef – yep that’s it, below the email box; if there’re plans to put lots more stuff below that to make use of the space then fair enough.

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By: stef http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19309 Wed, 28 May 2008 10:41:21 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19309 @Russ L – Unfortunately this was a little on the rushed side, and I’ve been testing on Windows 2003 server which looks like it’s not perfect.

Huge apologies but this should be a quick fix!

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By: Russ L http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19307 Wed, 28 May 2008 10:34:37 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19307 In IE with Windows XP-Professional, all of your sidebars are displaying below the posts. Haven’t tried it at home (with IE and whatever version of Windows I have there, I forget off the top of my head) yet.

I know IE/PC users are barbarians and all the rest of it, but one would have thought that if there was any browser system you could have gone out of your way to have a look at…

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By: focalplane http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/2008/05/28/created-in-birmingham-evolves/#comment-19306 Wed, 28 May 2008 10:31:53 +0000 http://www.createdinbirmingham.com/?p=1703#comment-19306 Katie, there’s more than one Safari user here!

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