Re: [Sheflug] Re: New Front Page

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>     Richard> Have you ever seen those words at the top of any web site
>     Richard> anywhere that was to do with SuSE, Red Hat, Debian or any
>     Richard> of the others ?
> No.  But then, Debian's site works fine with Lynx, admittedly you need
> 80 columns.  Dunno about them others.

To be honest, there are usually two classes of web page: those that work
with anything, and those that only work for one specific end-user target.
I generally find, though, that it is possible to create pages that
accommodate all users. I am slightly worried by the fact that people are
having trouble browsing the site in Lynx, et al. The lack of alt=
provision is a Bad Thing because it doesn't just impact text users; it
impacts those with disabilities also (the blind, for example, usually rely
on alt= tags being read out to them, so that they may navigate the links).
If you like Richard, I can do some research into whether or not it is
possible to generate a scaling front page?

Scaling front pages do work, see http://www.xmpdvd.co.uk/ (not just a
blatent plug - I was involved in creating it!). The side-effects can be
that different columns scale to different heights (a side-effect of
word-wrapping), which can create white-space at the bottom of the page.
And of course, it won't scale to all resolutions - lower than 640x480 is
starting to get silly - but it also handles the higher resolutions with
ease.

>     Richard> Am I working with amateurs  ?
> 
> Yes.  In web design, there are no professionals, yet.  Just amateurs
> lucky enough to get paid for doing what they love.

I'm afraid I count myself as a professional - i.e., I get paid for my web
work :-). Not much though, I'm a student....

Cheers,

Alex.


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