The "new look"

When asking AUEers for opinions regarding what is now the current layout of the pages on this site, which I then called the "new look", I wrote an explanation of the design. Here it is, slightly edited to cope with subsequent changes:

The title

The page title is in a large sans-serif font on an khaki background that extends the whole width of the page. (Not if you're using a non-graphical browser such as Lynx, of course.)

The side navigation panel

On the left of the page is a khaki navigation panel that extends the whole length of the page.

The side panel provides quick access to key areas of the aue site. At the top of the panel is a small aue logo with the caption alt-usage-english.org below. Then there's a series of cream "buttons" containing links. At the bottom of the panel is a brown "quick search" area, which searches just like the "Multi-Site Search" page.

The bottom navigation bar

At the bottom of the page is a further khaki navigation bar that extends the whole width of the page.

The bar is mainly useful when you reach the bottom of a long page, and the links on the left navigation bar have scrolled off the top of the screen. It provides a quick return to the top of the page, and direct access to the home page of this site and the yaelf site.

The page text

With big screens or small fonts, lines of text can easily get too long for comfortable reading. So I've limited the line length to about 120 characters. If you've a large screen you should see margins either side of the text, but if you've a small screen (or a small window on large screen) the text should fill the space available. It's possible to experiment by varying the size of your window or varying the size of the fonts that your browser uses. Older browsers might not be capable of limiting the line length, so you might see no margins, regardless of window and font sizes.