>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barry Lee Brisco
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 12:25 PM
>>
>> ... Last year in Boardwatch magazine, John
>> Dvorak wrote a column echoing your sentiments. ...
>
>In fact, I took a bunch of links that Dvorak had in his own "portal page"
>and put most of them into mine. He had them formatted as a table, with
>descriptive header and list of links in each cell. I converted each cell
>into a pull-down list with the header as the selected item, so instead of
>a rather bulky table, I have a compact 4x5 array of menus.
>
>> Basically that's what most portals are, a set of links with a few
>> other functions that usually aren't of much use to most people.
>
>Really? I would think things like current headlines, weather, stock
>prices, television schedules, etc -- stuff that changes all the time --
>would be the parts of a portal that are of most use.
Well, I don't think that approach really works very well. You can only put
so much information on a single page. The portals I've seen have a few news
headlines and some other stuff, but so what? That's hardly a useful
presentation of the news, TV schedules are different regionally as is the
weather. I much prefer a dedicated news site with an opening page that
shows me much more news, a bookmarked weather page that shows me the
weather over my head, etc.
I just don't think the portal concept works very well. This too shall pass...
And Kathy, I haven't upgraded to OS8.5 with Sherlock yet because I don't
want to void the warranty on my UMAX Mac clone :>) They don't support that
OS, though it will probably work fine. But I don't want to push it. And
other people I know say that 8.5 is not always as stable os 8.1.
You try it first <G>
Barry
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Web Design & Development - Online Marketing <http://www.ToTheWeb.com>
Web portfolio at <http://www.ToTheWeb.com/portfolio.html>
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