Mark, I hope you shared this information with the programmers!
Sincerely, Sherry Technical Support Legacy Family Tree On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Mark Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have taken a respite for the past couple of months from writing my > follow-up book to The Legacy Family PDF to actively put down on paper (well > in this case - a web page) my ideas for improved Legacy Web Pages. > > The current Legacy web pages serve the program well, however, there have > been numerous errors (as a programmer) from a web-coder's point of view that > have concerned me for the past five major version iterations, as well as > out-dated design issues. > > Some of the problems I have found in the Legacy web pages are the heavy use > of tables as a layout format, lots of unclosed tags, which can make the > former extremely difficult to following if you are able to understand and > read the code. Naturally not a lot of you will look at the code, and because > the current code has a degrading factor which browsers exploit and overlook, > you'd be none the wiser, unless informed, as I have done. > > Who cares, well I do for one, and that leads onto the next point about the > lack of CSS in the Legacy Web Pages. Cascading Style Sheets allow for all > styling to be in one place, making it quicker, neater and easier to change. > It is also evolving - CSS 3 is in a roll-out phase, and browsers are > changing to adapt as it becomes available. In using CSS 3, I have been able > to eliminate a lot of images that would have normally be used for layout > such as rounded corners - no longer the case. > > Tackling these issues, I thought how would I have the web pages designed for > Legacy in a way that will give them an all new fresh look. These "concept" > pages have not and probably will not evolve into Legacy, but I am willing to > try. And at the same time will be a little fun to see what you all think of > the current pages verses the concept pages. Because of the advanced styling > techniques used, make sure you are viewing these files using the latest > browser version - FF7, Safari, Opera, Chrome15 or IE9. > > Remember these are concept pages, so may never see the light of day. I have > set up specific email addresses in case you wish to respond to any of the > web pages. I shall create a special web page that will detail the results if > anyone responds. Even if you do not currently use web pages in Legacy, I am > interested in what you think as well. To send any feedback, I will only > reply to emails sent to the designated email sites I have set up. To do so, > navigate to the site below then click the feedback tab is where you will > find the email links. > > For further information, please see, visit the concept pages web site at > http://www.easygensolutions.com/concept/index.html. > > Enjoy. > > Kind Regards > Mark Lang > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on > our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
