I wouldn’t copy that page as it is unusable at any widths smaller than its max-width as the content becomes unreachable.
I think we’d need to see a drawing of what you want to give sound advice. Usually fixed footers and fixed sidebars are the worst of all approaches as far as fluid content is concerned. If you want independent viewport height content and sidebars then you end up with multiple scrollbars or as was done in that example above you lose the ability to scroll one section at all.
If you had a rough drawing then I might be able to suggest a better more robust alternative.
I get what your saying about the layout, but it really kinda fits with what i want to do so I’ve not given up on it as yet.
As requested I have knocked up a very rough sketch of what I’m looking to do.
Just to clarify a few things, the main content area does not need to have an extra sized image covering the whole area (like the original).
I was thinking more of adding a couple of fixed sized images in there and some text.
Also I would like the full height of the sidebar to remain visible.
One last thing… I would like the red footer bar to stretch the full length of the browser.
Now I know there are some contradictions on the above, please excuse me, my head is messed right now as ive been trying a shed load of different layouts and techniques and im just not thinking straight at the mo.
After a lot of playing around… I finally decided to take your original advice and not go with that layout.
I did some more ‘digging around’ and have come up with a much nicer layout for my project.
A massive thank you to you anyway mate for trying to help me out on this one.
I’m running into to trouble with my nav on the new layout so if i cant figure it out myself I’ll write another post and maybe I can trouble you to help me out on that if poss.
I’m running into to trouble with my nav on the new layout so if i cant figure it out myself I’ll write another post and maybe I can trouble you to help me out on that if poss.
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