The attached picture is a mockup of what I think the results pages should look like. I couldn’t identify all of the fonts and reach all of the images from the files I got when I did “Save Page As…” in Firefox, so this was done with image manipulation. The basic idea is to move the feed, sort, and navigational stuff to the top and bottom, outside the <ul> … </ul> section, which is the results list. This would leave those items the same from page to page. The feed and sort icons would have alt= attributes to provide accessibility; the First, Previous, and Next links could be replaced with the “standard” icons used by many - |<, <, and > - also with alt= if necessary.
I’m no expert, but I think there may be better ways in HTML5 to do this; it seems like there is an over-abundance of <span> elements to provide particular CSS choices. I also do not see where some of the images are pulled in, they’re not named in the HTML _or_ the CSS that I can see.
If the source for the HTML (and PHP?) is available, I wouldn’t mind looking at it.
Tim Hare
Interested Bystander, Non-Inc.
From: gutvol-d [mailto:gutvol-d-bounces@lists.pglaf.org] On Behalf Of don kretz
Sent: Saturday, May 5, 2018 3:21 PM
To: Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org>; Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>
Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] Another set of pages that might need tweaking
If I can get the source code and a database I can probably knock off some of those bugs.
On Sat, May 5, 2018, 7:11 AM Greg Newby <gbnewby@pglaf.org> wrote:
Hi, Tim. We don't have an active Webmaster right now, so nobody can fix this.
The search page is a fairly typical PHP+database application. Unfortunately we do not have a complete test platform, just our main production platform. If you or anyone else has skills and time to help out, we can work with iBiblio to get usernames set up etc.
If you would just like to look at some of the code to see whether there is an easy fix, that is something I can probably help with.
- Greg
On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 01:14:56AM -0400, Tim Hare wrote:
> I was looking at search results tonight - and noticed that the "navigation
> bar" (for lack of an accurate term) jumps around. By "navigation bar" I
> mean the thing that looks like
>
> "Displaying results 551-575 | First
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date> |
> Previous
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date&start_inde
> x=526> | Next
> <https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=release_date&start_inde
> x=576> "
>
> When you move from pate to page it jumps up or down depending upon how much
> content, especially image content, there is on a page. I think it would be
> better for this particular part of navigation to be placed somewhere above
> the books, in the same place, to make it easier for people to move forward
> and backward through the pages. This might also help with mobile or tablet
> devices but I haven't tried that out (yet). In any event it ought to be a
> very small tweak
>
> Tim Hare
> Interest Bystander, Non-Inc.
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