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[Haifux] Tzafrir's take on the site

Shlomi Fish
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 02:34:13 -0700


I have several comments:

1. The links on the top are broken. There are two duplicate ones (perl and
newcomers) and many of them don't point anywhere.

There are two perl links and one of them points to the R2L. Rename the
second one to R2L will solve it I think.

2. I'd rather put the perl on a separate page (until I finish the third
lecture, at least), as well as the R2L. I don't believe the R2L is of
great interest to the average clubber.

3. I would have put the projects (both R2L and SysCallTrack on a separate
page).

4. The "Future Lectures" is not a title.

5. I wholeheartedly recommend you to switch from filepp to WML. I never
found the C preprocessor enlightening, so I don't think a web-site powered
by something that is based on it can scale well.

WML OTOH is designed with HTML in mind, and I believe it can do anything
filepp does and more. And it is bundled with a lot of useful APIs, and new
ones can be written using perl and/or m4. (I did not find m4 too much
enlightening either, but let's skip it.)

5. Some of your HTML is not conformant to X/HTML. WML
can fix that automatically.

6. I'd rather have a side navigation bar (as a tree) instead of a top one,
despite its side effects. 

7. I'd rather not have centered titles other than the main title.

8. Can you have one common stylesheet file instead of the <style> ...
</style> tag? (again, WML can handle this automatically).

9. The front page contains too much information IMO. Can you out-source
some information to other pages?

10. And yet another reason to switch to WML - Its diversion mechanism
enables the creation of English/Hebrew pages from the same source. I
suppose the same thing can be done with #ifdef's, but in WML you can also
code a gettext() like mechanism.

Best regards and keep up the good work,

        Shlomi Fish



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