[NSP] Re: Help please
Thanks, Ian, for this link. Really useful, especially when it leads to Jakob Nielsen's pages, where I can feel virtuous about some bits my own site's design and learn that others need changing quite seriously! Richard. When I have had problems like this I often go back and re-read and angryish rant from the great Scottish singer Dick Gaughan which I came across when I first started setting up my own site. In someways it is a bit dated (what is Netscape..?) but the underlying argument is solidfinding out how to write in basic html is better than relying on proprietary web writing programs that can actually work against you. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001JulSep/att-0200/rant.htm Ian To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Help please
Ian, Thanks for posting the link to the Dick Gaughan article. It is perhaps even more relevant than ever in today's online world. Also worth a visit is www.internetisshit.org, another discussion of style vs content, the medium not being the message and so on. For a longer read, Andrew Keene's The Cult of the Amateur is also interesting, and available from Amazon. All the best, Andrew Gilhooley To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Help please
Bit over the top isn't it? And anyway the monkeys and their trypewriters (sic) are a fallacy. You'd long have exhausted the number of particles in the universe before you got close to having an infinite number of anything. Infinity is, er, big. c -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of A.J.Gilhooley Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 4:51 PM To: Ian Lawther; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [NSP] Re: Help please Ian, Thanks for posting the link to the Dick Gaughan article. It is perhaps even more relevant than ever in today's online world. Also worth a visit is www.internetisshit.org, another discussion of style vs content, the medium not being the message and so on. For a longer read, Andrew Keene's The Cult of the Amateur is also interesting, and available from Amazon. All the best, Andrew Gilhooley To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Help please
The link from the rant to Gaughan's main page doesn't work. Somebody being clueless, I assume. c -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Richard York Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 10:41 AM To: NSP group Subject: [NSP] Re: Help please Thanks, Ian, for this link. Really useful, especially when it leads to Jakob Nielsen's pages, where I can feel virtuous about some bits my own site's design and learn that others need changing quite seriously! Richard. When I have had problems like this I often go back and re-read and angryish rant from the great Scottish singer Dick Gaughan which I came across when I first started setting up my own site. In someways it is a bit dated (what is Netscape..?) but the underlying argument is solidfinding out how to write in basic html is better than relying on proprietary web writing programs that can actually work against you. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-ig/2001JulSep/att-0 200/rant.htm Ian To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Many Thanks
Hello amazing people Apologies for tardy reply (a Newcastle uni day - not helped by frantic 70mile detour to Alnwick to retrieve a one off spec teaching chanter left in the BB chest of drawers after Alnwick Gathering!) I've been overwhelmed by the time and trouble taken to help me with the website cacophony problem. I'll be contacting individuals off list to glean further advice and give personal thanks but in the meantime. A BIG THANK YOU to all involved. There is a pool (ocean more like!) of information out there which is uplifting to behold and so freely and generously shared. Warmest best Anthony -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
