This is very short and simple. I got an idea for a new Wordpress layout, and I want to get some feedback as to your preferences for the structure, assuming you were either designing or reading a site based on the structure. Traditionally, we see a lot of left hand navigation elements on the left side of “normal” websites. Blogs tend to favor the right for sidebars. In this layout I’m plotting out, there will be an “aside” type element that I do not want juxtaposed against the sidebar area, but I also don’t want it hanging free against the right side of a center aligned page because I think it reduces the readability of it. So the options I crafted are as follows.
Option one is a left aligned page, with a left hand sidebar area with the asides floating on the right of the content. Option two is a center aligned page with a right hand sidebar area that allows the asides to come in on the left of the content. Both of these examples are optimized for 1024×768, but I am toying with the idea of making them full width, or possibly flexible width (though I generally find that harder to get “perfect”). Click either thumbnail to view an actual sample page. I welcome the opinions of both designers and random people alike. Also keep in mind, this is just for planning the basic wireframe of the site, it has nothing to do with how the final thing will actually look, from a “pretty” point of view.
Polls follow after examples.
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Tough choice. I actually like the asides on the right the best because they are like book notations like you find in some bibles, etc., and they seem more “aside-ish” if they follow rather than precede the text. However, I definitely like having the widgets on the right as well. I think that’s a cleaner layout overall and again, placing the widgets after the main text reduces the level at which they detract from the main text.
So… tough choice. I know, I’m no help whatsoever.
Maybe I could try asides on the right, with a wide gutter between that and the sidebar on the right. Give a lot of breathing room between the two.
Damn I can’t tell if my vote really matters because it’s exactly the same as the four people before me… IN BOTH POLLS!
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