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marthamarks:
On my new SYS site, I've been building pages (which drop down from the main Menu catgories) with photos grouped according to place or species. Photos are clustered on the page, not formed into a single large grid of images. Here are a couple of "finished" examples:

http://bestnaturestock.com/places/arizona/
http://bestnaturestock.com/plants/cacti/

Exactly how each page looks depends on the size of the monitor being used.

I'm getting this look by manually separating the clusters of photos with lines (either a single line or multiple lines as needed) like this:

<span style="color: #ffffff;">*************************************************</span>

This produces an invisible (because it's white #ffffff on white) divider line that makes the pages look the way I want on "normal-size" computer screens.

However, I'm starting to worry about two things. Phrased as questions, they are:

1. How will pages manually spaced like this look on mobile phones, iPads, etc.? (I don't own either so can't test it.)

2. How will search engines react to pages done like this?


And I'm wondering: Is there some kind of block layout or grid pattern that I could use instead of my clunky manual system? It would have to be able to have empty "blocks" or "spaces" to work for me.

If anybody has thoughts on this or answers to my questions, I'll be grateful for the help.

Thanks in advance!

Pilens:
You could try http://www.studiopress.com/responsive/ to find out how it looks on smaller screens.

plrang:
2. don't worry about SEO

1. yes you can

Symbiostock comes with a preinstalled library, you can use at this time.
There is one CON, Smbiostock uses Bootstrap version 2 - version 3 just came out.
I don't know if Leo will try to change it, it's not necessary at the moment, so you may use the v2 rules.

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/scaffolding.html

Happy griding ;)

marthamarks:
Thank you, Pilens and Pirang, for these great tips! I appreciate them both and will check 'em out.

As we say here in Nuevo Mexico: ¡Muchas gracias!   :-)

Leo Blanchette:

--- Quote from: plrang on August 01, 2013, 13:41 ---2. don't worry about SEO

1. yes you can

Symbiostock comes with a preinstalled library, you can use at this time.
There is one CON, Smbiostock uses Bootstrap version 2 - version 3 just came out.
I don't know if Leo will try to change it, it's not necessary at the moment, so you may use the v2 rules.

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/scaffolding.html

Happy griding ;)

--- End quote ---


Just noticed it yesterday. Already loving it. I have some catching up to do.

BTW - don't worry too much about SEO. Basically Symbiostock's a finely tuned truck with some horsepower. It would be wrong if you didn't take it off-roading and get it dirty a bit :D Hodgepodge your site away and have fun. You'll do fine.

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