[Haifux] Fw: [Haifux] hifux site's design

[Sivan Green]

To sum up what Shlomi wrote,

  this is more than true and reflects what I think also.

Please don't turn haifux site to an html hell..


Sivan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shlomi Loubaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "lin-club" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Haifux] hifux site's design


>
> > Looks nice, however, I have a couple of problems with this concept:
> >
>
> Tzafrir , I couldn't agree more with what you wrote here ...
>
> > * An additional text-only menu should be avilable for text-only users
> > (lynx, PDAs, etc.)
>
> I think we should write "this site is best viewed using lynx" and add a
W3C
> XHTML1.00 or HTML 4.01 Validation Service icon : http://validator.w3.org/
>
> >
> > * Do you want this image to change on touch? This requires five
pictures.
>
> don't give them ideas !
>
> > Those pictures are relatively large and will take time to load, and thus
> > the user may not have a good effect of immediate response (Although I'm
> > not sure about that one)
>
> i'm very sure about this one .
> I think there sould be only one graphic element in such site : the logo
...
>
> > * Updating it is more problematic: Whenever there needs to be a change
to
> > the site, the webmaster (currently orrd) needs to update the site.
Suppose
> > R2L is replaced with another project, what needs to be changed? Can the
> > webmaster do it alone?
>
> Maybe we should consider to write some web-management tool in perl/php.
>
> > Regards
> > Tzafrir Cohen
>
> i have some more comments about the latest proposed designes for the
haifux
> club site:
>
> a. I love the site the way it is now. Please do not add any
> frames/graphics/other evil elements ! (BTW: i think that putting picture
in
> the background as in current site is evil too. backgroung for such sites
> should be white.)
>
> b. Any large graphic files will not do any good !!! this is not the linux
> way !$#&^%
> for more information on evil  web pages , please read :
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/html-hell.html
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html
> http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
> http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/www/
>
> c. when did we decide on changing the site ? i couldn't cometo the last
> meeting ....could anyone tell me what(and why) this all about ?
>
> d. look at linux group sites from around the world :
> http://wlug.linuxcare.co.nz/  (look at the icons in the bottom of this one
> !! )
> http://www.ale.org/
> http://www.ntlug.org/
> http://www.blu.org/
> http://spot.elfwerks.com/~clue/
>
> you can find the rest of this list on the LUG-how-to :
> http://www.ntlug.org/archive/lug-howto/lug.html
> (section 5.2)
>
> Regards
> Shlomi Loubaton
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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