[WSG] CD Navigation

Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:24:05 -0800

Hi all,
 
This is my first post to the WSG. I'm wondering if any of you could take a look at the following webpage for me.
 
 
I'll fill you in on the background of the project:
 
Every year we (Board of Studies) publish a load of CDs (for the last few years it has been over 100 seperate projects) called "Standards Packages". Basically it allows a kid studying for a HSC look at examples of actual student exam papers from the previous years for each grade (A, B, C D etc- called Bands).
 
This is all done by putting a load of PDFs on a CD and providing a method to navigate them. Before I came along they were creating bookmarks in one PDF and cloning them accross each of the 100 or 150 pdfs on the CD. This had to be done for each of the 100 CDs. This was nasty. Now, they just drop them in a folder structure and name the files in a specified way and ColdFusion creates the navigation. It now takes 5 mins to do what used to take a couple of weeks work.
 
So the navigation that ColdFusion creates is above, and I would welcome any feedback you can give me. Any suggestions on how to tidy up the CSS or HTML? Any better ideas about layout or colour schemes? Is the navigation simple enough so that even a school teacher could use?! This page will be published on a CD, and should be able to be used in even old browsers. I will check browsercam to see how it performs.
 
It validates ok on w3.org. I would never normally use frames, but it seemed like a perfect application for them.
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Gavin

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