New ATS front page ?

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


Bring back ATS Plasma.

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
And... I'm toying with wireframes where ATS is a (nearly) white site.

Sounds good I made a basic responsive grid example for you. See if it helps any. Sidebar left, sidebar right and full width. Container = 1440px. Scales down to 320px. Try resizing.

Only downside with this is that you need to put class="last" for each last item on each row. You could remove it though, by expanding the box x amount of % to the right so it fits.

Instead of doing the masonry style since boxes have different heights, you could do a static common height (looks structured) and then have a gradient-effect that makes it look like the text fades away at the bottom (with overflow hidden on the boxes).

A quick test, was bored so - far from finished though. If you want the zip and code for it, just ask and I'll send.

View - looks kind of boring without images, but yea, just a quick base.

reply to post by opnmind


I don't like relying too much on percentage/relative width columns in a responsive design -- it can give pretty ugly results in a portrait-position 1280x600 Android tablet. I prefer everything to respond to specific parameters based on the break points of the media queries.

And the biggest issue in a responsive approach are the ads... 728x90 at the top of every page.

Well I have taken to visiting the home page, not bad, not bad at all.

reply to post by Ameilia


I like the colors, they are very subtle and easy on the eyes.

I was thinking the other day that some forums you can change the background, does ATS have that option?

Been here this long shows how little I pay attention.

Here's a sneak peak at a concept being worked on for a completely new ATS.
www.abovetopsecret.com/index_ats53.php
Navigation links don't work yet... and that page may soon be removed.

reply to post by SkepticOverlord


That looks pretty nice.

Right now, it auto-resizes and re-flows for three screen sizes:
desktop - 1280 pixels wide and above
tablet landscape - 1024 pixels wide
tablet portrait - 768 pixels wide

Nice, works well.