or perhaps the programmers are programmers and not web designers. The two professions are totally different really - asking a programmer to build a website would be like asking the toaster to make the bread. But yes, there are people out there who have the brain skills to train and successfully do both, but perhaps we don't have them on our Legacy team.
>From a personal point of view of the situation, and knowing how much work goes into building just a basic site, and also knowing how many different browsers there are and how often they change and update, and how many different screen sizes and operating systems and ..... I could go on but I won't, I feel that although the website they have created is basic, it suits the purpose of providing an HMTL format for webpage display of a family tree. They have provided us with the ability to have a surname index that links directly to each possible person, they've provided us with different pages for each generation, they've even provided us with the ability to customise background colour and different images for different reasons, they've even provided us with the choice of Ancestor or Generation, if we want living people included or suppressed. If I personally sat down and created these pages from scratch, and I know how to create webpages and websites, I'd be easily looking at working at it non-stop for close to 4 weeks, to write the code, to de-bug the code, to make sure it worked with different sizes and configurations of family trees, and to ensure it worked across multiple browsers, operating systems and monitor sizes. And that's without then writing it all into the program so it can do it all for us in less than a minute. Now, if I have offended or upset anyone my my response here, I am sorry, but having done University studies in both programming and web design, and realising the Web Design was hard enough and that programming wasn't for me, I do feel that I have half an idea of what the Legacy team are going through, and nagging really doesn't help. On 18 September 2013 18:20, Mary Young <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, this problem of inappropriate *relative* font sizes, is not helped > by increasing Zoom of the entire web page. By the time the text in "Family > Links" is readable, the headers go from "large" to "ridiculously large" > etc. .. > My Legacy website was created in April 2006 and I've found the unbalanced > appearance of the font sizes annoying from day one - as have others posting > to the Group. The problem could best be addressed by the programmers. It > would seem fairly simple to alter the coding for a simple change to fixed, > more balanced font sizes (offering user-defined sizes would I assume be > more complicated). > Requests for a fix have been made over the years, but it seems the > programmers are not sufficiently interested in presenting the program's > best face via our Legacy websites. > Mary Young > > > > 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
