Did I mention, a couple of days ago, that I got yet another "goodie" in the mail bragging about a great new piece of webware site design software? If so, this is a follow up; if not, you can read my original message. I have "neutralized" the e-dress, because there's no need for anyone to contact the lady. But the tenor & content of the reply I got is worth seeing. Some sites *do* listen!! l.d. ----- Forwarded message begin ----- From: "xxxxxx, Denise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi L.D. Thanks for your comments on the Rational site. It's great to know you take such an active interest in the code! To answer your question about the use of Rational Suite ContentStudio, we have not yet implemented it on our external site. We are starting to use it on the Rational intranet this quarter, and then will incorporate it into the publishing process on rational.com later in the year. I like your suggestion of including the generator tag. For those like you who like to look under the covers of the site, it's a great way to show what the product can do. I'll pass the other comments on to our design team. We're always trying to improve the performance and appearance of the site. Cheers, Denise Tarbox ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Denise Tarbox Web Design and Editorial Manager Rational Software 781-402-3687 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: web master Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 1:04 PM To: Tarbox, Denise Subject: FW: WWW Note [via web_feedback.jsp] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WWW Note [via web_feedback.jsp] Request headers: Accept: */* Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,* Cache-Control: no-cache Content-length: 2900 Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Cookie: WebLogicSession=OpLfaGNerFFUyBMlHN0gVtkr3NHVY1lzG2E98xPo4gVnxVy42ZiG|-476915 5692254456083/-1062688244/6/7601/7601/7002/7002/7601/-1 Host: www.rational.com Pragma: no-cache Referer: http://www.rational.com/contact/web_feedback.jsp User-agent: xChaos_Arachne/4.1.70;rev.3 (DOS x86;WATTCP/1.05; 1024x768,HiColor; www.arachne.cz) Proxy-Client-IP: 208.2.209.25 X-Forwarded-For: 208.2.209.25 URL commenting on: http://www.rational.com/index.jsp AND http://www.rational.com/contact/web_feedback.jsp Name: L.D. Best E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Comments: I cannot tell a lie: When I receive advertising about new webware, the first thing I want to do is check out the home page of the advertiser. When I dropped in and took a look at the code, I was pleasantly surprised to find in-code comments/documentation [although some of it was flawed ... some saying "start" when it should say "end"] that was actually useful, far nicer than so much of the boiler plate found on many sites that want to play with js these days. However, that could all be done by hand -- and I see no META tag for "Generator" ... were the pages written with your Rational web site software or not?? If not, then wouldn't it be more fair to the consumer/potential customer to use the software that is being sold to design & maintain the website? If the site was designed, and is being maintained, using the company software -- it should be indicated in the META tags. Another thing I noticed, which makes the site less friendly to some browsers such as mine, is that you allow for only two CSS ... NS & IE. If someone is using another browser, no CSS is available. My browser handles CSS fairly well, but since no "generic for other browsers" option is provided for, onmouseover doesn't so much as change the color of the link. BTW, the top nav bar, and body of the page, works fine in hires & 800x600, but the top nav bar fails in resolution lower than 800x600. Finally, it would be so much simpler to make this textarea a reasonable width and put wordwrap in place. Even people who don't know that DOS, and some other OSes can cut off a line at a certain number of characters regardless of where in the line it is, don't like what they are saying scrolling off the screen. All in all the site is higher calibre than many, but still could use some refining. vty l.d. ------ Forwarded message end ------ -- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
