Please, Daniel, don't be a martyr...and how about letting up on the volume of posts...twenty plus posts per day about images and the *minor* layout changes of a webpage is a bit obsessive.
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:45 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > Yet here you are pushing for a front page for Authors > > that has major usability problems, and you seem to be totally unaware of > > that. > > Listen, there's no need to treat me like I don't give a hoot about the > page visitor. I've been working day and night all week and I've made > every effort to make this page usable. I don't see YOU proposing a lot > of page designs. When I participated in the OOo front page discussion I > made several specific page samples and I discussed pros and cons with > *specifity* instead of just saying "this is crap, you don't care about > usability" and not explaining what's wrong or offering a solution. > > I felt that this page ranked very high on usability. Quoting the same > book you listed, "it doesn't matter how many clicks I have to make as > long as each one is simple and mindless". You reach a page that had > language links. It's obvisous what to do with it, because the page > doesn't let you do much with it. You just click on a language you > understand. When you see a page with nothing but an "Enter" link, you > know what to click on. And you seem to forget that the people with > graphics off is a very small proportion of page visitors. I have paid > attention to alt fields to make sure that blind people on screen readers > can access the page. But you are still convinced that I haven't paid > attention to usability, but of course you don't offer any alternatives. > It's easy to sit on the sideline and shoot down ideas. It's hard to make > pages and propose them as alternatives. I've spent countless hours doing > this, and I've tried very hard to satisfy everyone. > > Daniel. -- Regards, Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net Read my blog: http://www.nostabo.net/blog/index.php ******************************************************************* PRIVILEGED - PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete it from your system immediately and notify the sender by electronic mail or using any of the contact details noted herein. This e-mail sent via Evolution 2.2.1 running on a Linux 2.6.12 kernel.
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