The current manifestation of this blog has a column that runs up the right side and overlays the horizontal nav bar at the top. I admittedly like this look. I call it the X and Y axis page layout. This is because, for me, it resembles a cartesian plane with the column representing “y” and the nav bar representing “x”. I think I like it because it makes elegant use of the space available and over the years I have gotten tired of the same-ol’-same-ol’ with page layouts.
In any case, I decided to do a redesign of Learn Chess Rules. I decided to employ this design concept in the simplest manner possible, using something close to primary colors. I wanted to see the format in its essense. I also employed a fixed div at the bottom of the page. I like the effect, but the wife liked the ambiance of the site before I changed it. At this time many of the support pages are still in the old format, the FAQs for example, so you can see the difference.
I originally wrote the Chess Rules site in 1998. My memory has me starting at ten in the evening and working to four in the AM. If so, I was working fast. The redesign and rewrite took me two days.
The internet moves faster than a speeding bullet, and even faster than Superman. When I wrote the site it was all tables. Even though in the rewrite I employed a table here and there, where appropriate, the entire structure hangs on the <div> tag and the CSS behind it.
X and Y Axis at Learn Chess Rules
