A bit of lateral thinking
My first visit to the forum and my first Drupal site.
Ive put it here for your comments or suggestions - hopefully more about the design than the content.
It is the beginnings of my personal website.
First thing is, I've always had a bit of a thing about horizontal scrolling sites (yes I know they are crap for text - at least until css column property gets implemented - but they are great for images). So I took the framework layout and butchered it to work horizontally - then I did the next terrible thing of using fixed divs and this is the result. hopefully getting less gronky by the day.
At the moment I am migrating the info from another site into the nodes, so the first few nodes on the front page may not be very interesting to follow. for a better example try http://creative-process.com/node/31
I tried using lightbox2 for the images but it gave no end of grief converting it to work horizontally (images centered in the 5000px wide container div). I eventually got it working but it displayed so differently in every browser that I abandoned it in favour of fancyzoom, which I think does the job much more elegantly, even though it is javascript and not available as a module.
My next step is to completely rewrite the templates so that the info (nodes) comes before the sidebar and title stuff, for accesibility sake and to get rid of loads of divs that just don't need to be there.
Anyway please let me know if you find any horrors, especially if you are using a windows or unix browser - let me know which - I dont have access to either - or just let me know what you think about the site.
Thanks
David
If you are interested in horizontal scrolling sites there is an interesting place that's trying to catalogue them. It can be found here: http://www.thehorizontalway.com/
I admire your brave and bold
I admire your brave and bold step to break convention and choose to have the website 'the horizontal way' as most people will avoid it because it's not very usable though can work very well in some cases, like yours.
However, these days with javascript you can present a more usable and fun way for visitors to interact with the site. Why not use some jQuery to allow for scrolling the page with a button or link? Here's an example: http://flesler.webs.com/jQuery.LocalScroll/ajax/ You can even jump to different parts, for example on your site - to view different images. And here's a brilliant example of a live site using it: http://www.engageinteractive.co.uk/
A small issue, I noticed some times on Firefox the horizontal scroll seems a little struck at times (does not move at all or very slow when i tried to scroll).
Anyway, it's quite refreshing to see someone taking a different approach to design :)
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