On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > creating a set of tutorials for mongers and user groups? What's important
> > is the information, not how fancy the background picture is.
>
> Thats where I think you're wrong. People care a *lot* about how things
> look. Case in point with AxKit - I had an old site up at
> xml.sergeant.org/axkit (I think its still there, I don't check). I didn't
> get much interest, maybe 20 page views a day or so. When (again with
> Robin's excellent designer help) I bit the bullet and redesigned at
> axkit.org the number of hits rose dramatically the very day I released the
> new design. And it wasn't just because of the domain name because AxKit
> wasn't a well known name at the time. It was because it looked good (or at
> least better - I'm still not happy with all that purple :-)
>
> The point being - we all despise marketing tactics of producing flashy web
> sites with pretty pictures because we're geeks. But it works - it draws
> people in. And provided you actually give them some good content to read
> once you've drawn them in I don't see too many negative points about it.
remember I was talking about slides, not sites.
> (and if I'm honest, I've always shuddered a bit seeing you use gv for
> your slideshows - its just not a good slideshow application. Sorry
> Stas :-)
Well, that's what I have. I don't think that when you show bullets of text
it matters if you use PP or gv. I'm not giving marketing presentation, but
pure info comprised of text bullets and code snippets, gv does it just
right. I could include pictures if I had any...
On the technical presentations the speaker is what's important (and on
other presentation types as well). One can read slides/handouts at home
without coming to the conference at all.
Having nice slides requires a hell amount of time, which I unfortunately
don't have. So please bear with me.
BTW, if you want to give the base level intro to mod_perl with nicer cool
flashy slides, I won't stand on your way. It's just that nobody wants to
do that. I won't mind talking about more advanced things for a change.
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