Site redesign

Question

Hi Folks,
I need to redesign the hompage to my site:
www.halesowen.ac.uk
I've been told the news sections need to be bigger. I've
tried scrapping the area on the right with the search, and
extending the news sections across the rest of the page, but it
just look unbalanced.
Can anyone help?
The navigation has to stay where it is, moving it anywhere
else would be a major headache.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thankyou

Answer 1

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 16:18:05 +0000 (UTC), "Mattastic"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
> I need to redesign the hompage to my site:
>
> www.halesowen.ac.uk
>
> I've been told the news sections need to be bigger. I've
tried scrapping the
>area on the right with the search, and extending the news
sections across the
>rest of the page, but it just look unbalanced.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> The navigation has to stay where it is, moving it
anywhere else would be a
>major headache.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thankyou
The way I would approach this is to first decide my minimum
width and
that would be within pixels of what you now have. I think you
are 760
pixels wide and you probably can go 770 wide.
I would lose the bullets on the main menu on the left, the
menu items
start about 24 pixels right of the edge of the screen and
that's a bit
more than you need. Say you have 8 pixels breathing room to
the left
of the menu and widen to 770, now you've got 26 pixels more
room,
which isn't a lot, but it should help.
The right-hand column is about 166 pixels wide; you could
tighten that
up if you lost the bullets. You could also not do the column
(or div
or whatever it is), but instead put that right-side content
in a
right-floated blockquote; that would free up the space below
it,
should the content end up shorter.
I would also play with the middle content; I think the area
under
College News just makes the page feel boxy.
Hope this helps!