Forum: Community Center


Subject: I'm liking the new layout!

FrankT opened this issue on Aug 17, 2015 ยท 90 posts


ptousig posted Tue, 18 August 2015 at 11:31 AM

Just a follow up to my earlier post with feedback on the layout. Related to my comments about the right-hand sidebar on product pages, the site now has a fixed-size width. On my system, this makes margins on both left and right sides of the site (everywhere, not just on product pages) needlessly wide. The old site would flow content to a very narrow margin on my PC browser - almost right to the edge of the browser window.

That the new margins are perfect on my tablet (in landscape mode) does lend support to the idea that the site was, at least partially, optimized for mobile viewing. I agree with others who are questioning whether that makes sense when the site's primary audience is folks who render in Poser or DAZ. We're not your typical content consumers. We have (usually powerful) PCs and laptops. We're not doing this on mobile. Sure, I look at Rendo on my tablet and even my phone sometimes. The old site worked just fine.

In contrast, all the complaints I have with the new product pages carry over to viewing on my tablet. Viewing it on my phone? That's a complete mess. The sidebar flows to the bottom of the page, and the margins are too wide, leaving the main content floating in a sea of blank space.

While not as vehemently annoyed by it as some posters here, I agree that reducing the number of products-per-line shown on things like the "What's New" page was ... suboptimal. Especially with all the changes I've mentioned that reduce vertical viewing area for the main content of pages, making the number of items-per-line smaller is really pretty annoying.