[OGDev] openguides.org website

[Kake L Pugh]

On Tue 10 Apr 2007, Earle Martin <openguides at downlode.org> wrote:
[long names in the list of Guides]
> Good question, I don't have a ready answer. If this project starts
> growing and growing, multi-guide cities will probably get more common
> (we can dream, can't we?) so this will become a more important
> question.
> 
> In general, the site design isn't too great and all suggestions are
> appreciated.

If we could get the list of guides into one column, that might help,
since then we could make it wider.  I think the tricky part is making
the list not look like a navigation widget - I think as it stands it
succeeds in this, but if we made it longer and thinner then it'd look
like a navbar, which would be confusing since people don't expect
navbars to take them off the current site.

So I started thinking of ways to make it not look like a navbar.
Here's one rough (very rough) sketch:
  http://the.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/tmp/ogsite/page

People on IRC didn't like it, but it's just an idea that may hopefully
spark something in someone's mind, so I'm posting it anyway.  Inspiration
came from here:
  http://alistapart.com/articles/outsidethegrid

Kake