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[Haifux] choo's take on the site

guy keren
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:42:11 -0700


i got annoyed with the general attitude, so i decided to sit down and
design a site. you can see the results at
http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/

a few notes:

1. i contemplated mostly on what should go on the front page. then i
   started thinking about usability - who is the target audiance of the
   web site? and then i realized that its mostly a set of people that keep
   returning to the site, and wish to know what's coming next. so the
   front page shows a summary of the comming activities.

2. regarding the "menu", i just stole part of the "non-design" of LUPG, so
   don't mind the 'stolen' images.

3. regarding the logo (tux-at-home.gif) - i wish to write 'Haifux' along
   side tux's shoulder (to the left of tux, from buttom-left to
   top-right). i created an image with this text, only that i had to
   "write" the word pixel by pixel, and i did a bad job
   (http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/haifux/tux-at-haifux.gif).

4. i didn't know where to put shlomi's perl lectures. i think that since
   it wasn't part of the regular lectures, nor part of the welcome-2-linux
   series, i should add a new section to the 'menu', stating
   'Lecture-Sets' and in it put a link to the perl lectures series, as
   well as any other "External" lecture series we'll have in the future.

5. i looked at the pages using netscape (4.7x :P~~~) as well as using lynx
   (2.8.1rel.2), and it appears to look ok under both. my screen
   resolution is 1024x768, so i tried to also reduce netscape's window's
   width to about half the screen's width, and the pages still come up
   ok ('menu' being split over 2 lines).

6. the links inside the pages DO NOT MOSTLY WORK, since i didn't copy all
   the site's contents (what's the use of doing that before i know if this
   design will win the contest or lose miserably).

comments are welcome. not flames.

--
guy

"For world domination - press 1,
 or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy


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