mulix
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 05:32:07 -0700
first of all, i'd like to say that i *appreciate* ladypine's and smackware's efforts in making a better site. criticism is good, but don't let it discourage you guys - your efforts are appreciated by everyone. [ i'll just snip the attributions from here on ] > Cool. Except that best viewed using lynx should be changed to best viewed > using any browser. agreed. a linux site sould support the lowest common denominator, which is text based browsers. supporting IE5.0 and up is NOT acceptable ;) > > i'm very sure about this one . > > I think there sould be only one graphic element in such site : the logo ... after thinking about it some more, i agree, with one possible caveat - potentially make it logos, in the plural. for example, the w2l lectures will have a logo, i assume, and the syscalltrack project should have one too soon (right, guy?). > > > * 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? orr, i'd like to hear your take on the website situation - where you think it should be headed, how it should be managed and updated, etc. > > 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.) i agree. the background and/or the large table on the current site causes it to render quite slowly witn netscape 4.7. for me. > No frames - agreed. But a nice navigation bar and splitting the site into > several pages is a good idea. And I kinda like the background picture. I > don't think it's large enough to be a hog, and it makes the site look > nicer, IMO. i agree about splitting the content into smaller pages, and i would vote to ditch the background image. > FOA, we are not a LUG but rather a Linux Club. Secondly, the mass of > lectures we had and are going to have justifies a re-structuring of the > site. shlomi, care to elaborate on the distinction? i was under the impression it's exactly the same thing. -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix http://www.sf.net/projects/syscalltrack -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://linuxclub.il.eu.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]