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

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



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