Study Nature.
Love Nature.
Be close to Nature.
It will never fail you.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
I’m finishing up a project over at Koen Colpaert“s new “stamboom”.
Coen had asked me to work up a custom TNG layout to match WordPress “Tarski” theme.
The main WordPress page as rendered by the Tarski theme looks like this:
We skipped the TNG homepage and directed the “Genealogy” link to TNG’s surname page instead. I love the [...]
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I’m working on styling TNG with the default WordPress Tarski theme.
Here’s the color palette from ColorZilla:
#e5cfd2 -mauve
#a8001c -red
#006a80 -turquoise
#cfe2e5 – sky blue
# 8fbf60 -lime green
# ece9d8 -concrete gray
One major issue was the default Tarski #wrapper 760px fixed width.
Because much of the data in TNG is laid out in tables, content rich pages need a minimum [...]
Old bookjackets are a great resource for page layout inspiration.
The artwork is royalty free and examples are easily found in the public domain.
I ran across this one a while back and loved the simple landscape shapes of the tree near a cabin near which stands a cock crowing at the sunrise.
Peaceful and well-placed country elements gather [...]
Humans feel more comfortable when they know what to expect. They’re more relaxed within familiar surroundings. With a little planning it’s possible to make them feel right at Home on each and every page of a website.
Drop menus exist by default in the upper right corner of most core TNG pages. These menus organize [...]
A large part of my work consists of customizing genealogy websites powered by TNG.
While TNG is a powerful application for bringing one’s genealogy to the web, the display and layout of pages “out of the box” is somewhat outdated with respect to web standards. I’ve been using TNG since 2004 and the page layouts are [...]