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The alpha numeric arrangement of subcategories on the halfbakery make sense to me, but it seems a deeper more controlling part of my brain has been rejecting the organization as presented for several years.
I don't know if it is something in the way I have taught myself to assimilate info or not,
but the 3 column alpha numeric ordering running left to right across the 3 columns is still being rejected by my mind.
If I have a category in mind I would like to search for now, I take the first column & scan it top to bottom. I find the appropriate beginning letters & see if it is there. I then have to repeat the task for the next two columns.
Does anyone else have to do this?
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I have never had the time really to teach myself any html or higher programming. In autolisp I think I could turn out a response in 3 columns alpha numerically w/ a-f in 1st column, g-r in second, & s-z in third, but again, I don't know html or others. |
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Nope, I think it's just you, [Zimmy]. |
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Lists are arranged in several different formats. I feel it's just a matter of going with the flow. |
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Hmmm, I think you are fighting the list, [Zimmy]. First, you must become the list. Be one with the list. YOU ARE THE LIST. Now scan yourself, absorb the information through your entire being. Breathe. |
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See, that wasn't so hard. Forget the programing stuff, just use your inner computer. |
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I agree with Zimmy. Columns shouldn't be |
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The current layout is just an artefact of the limits of the HTML display system I'm using. If this were, say, a book, I'd lay them out differently, and I think so would most conventional graphic designers. |
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Given that many written languages scan right to left and even top to bottom I would suggest it's largely a matter of preference. |
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If I were designing it from scratch I'd probably design it
A D G
B E H
C F I
but if a client wanted it some other way then that's their business. Maybe we just run an unconventional graphic studio. Certainly, we design almost exclusively to comply with corporate livery and standards manuals. The Japanese and Italians are possibly the most meticulous, and often the most confusing, to work with. |
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I can just hear that in an aussie accent! |
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I second that, [DrCurry]. Random is the way to go. |
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A touch of preprocessing would probably run along the lines of: count total units in the pile, ascertain how many columns it makes and call this a banana, take every bananath unit to build the first row, and so on. But of course, you knew that. |
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I think for the next program I write, I will in fact use banana as a variable name. Actually, one I did a few days ago needs some refining to add in defaults to make it run faster, so as soon as I get time to work on it it shall have the banana variable. |
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I can't take away from my time looking at the bakery, though. |
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which leads the reader in a nice spirally pattern around the page. |
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That might actually be pleasant. Normally I'd go with the vertical columns, but I like the spiral more. |
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Perhaps this model could be adopted? |
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F....F
..I....I...F
B...B. .B...I...F...F
...O...O. .O...B...I. .I...F
N....N. ..N. ..O...B...B..I
A...A. .A..A..N..O..O..B
A..C..C..C. C..A..N..O
......C..C..C...A.N
.....I...C..C..A |
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UnaBubba, that is a prime example of true logic at work. Capital suggestion! |
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Thanks, I was going to try to do an entire circular spiral but variable kerning widths between software apps made it too difficult, so I opted to exaggerate the effect on just a portion of a circle. |
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I'm not so sure about the idea of vertical lists in web pages (just to be different). If the list is really long, then when you go to the bottom of the left column, you need to scroll all the way back to the top, to continue with the next column. |
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