[Rhodes22-list] The New Website

[Lowe, Rob]

Peter,
I understand the desire to have a website that is readable on a mobile device.  I have to wonder how important it is for the Rhodes 22 site.  - Rob

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From: Rhodes22-list <rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org> on behalf of Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2020 11:32 AM
To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The New Website

Folks, I’m going to go back to the drawing board on the website.  Obviously, I should have taken mobile devices into account from the start of the project, rather than design for the desktop and hope that everything would work out.  There are tools and frameworks available to help with making websites that work on different size screens, and I’ll be looking into some of those.

Most of time that I’ve put into this project has been on the content (pictures, reference pages), and I’m pretty sure that none of that work will turn out to have been wasted.

I don’t know how long this re-design will take.  I expect it will be weeks at least.

In the meantime, I’ll take down sunnybeeches.com/rhodes22.

Thanks for your kind words and assistance on the work done so far.

I’ll be back.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheelsl (1988/2016)



> On Oct 3, 2020, at 10:20 PM, Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com> wrote:
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> Mike,
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> First, it looks like the problem with the overflow in the header on mobile Chrome browsers has been fixed. Can you confirm?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> —Peter
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>> On Oct 3, 2020, at 7:34 PM, Michael Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com> wrote:
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>> 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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