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Bob Thompson writes apropos the above:
Thanks for posting the link to this list. I'd never seen it
before.
Thanks for confirming the worth of putting links like that up from
time to time.
You know a lot more about web site design and related issues than I
do.
Turns out I've approached the whole matter from a slightly different
tack than most, and tend to take the "communicator" view rather than the
tag-hacker one. I've also tried to stress the "content" aspect of the web
and an awareness of why this is a very different view than the usual
wp/dtp/paperdocument one. Most of the non-tag-tweaker software out there
uses the dtp/wp visual markup model, which makes it rather difficult for
people to publish pages that are good from a web-hypertext point of
view.
What's your honest opinion of my site? Does it violate any of this
List of Ten egregiously? What do I need to fix?
Only insofar as you get a lot of (needless) visual-markup crap
automatically included via Frontpage. Could be worse, you could be publishing
via Word-html <grin>. But, no, I can't see that you are violating any
of the 10.
Strictly speaking, none of us should be using *tables* (fer gosh
sake) to do decent page layout, but until browsers properly support typographical
and page layout (e.g. CSS/XSL), it's the least of many worse
evils.
A minor, but for some significant issue, has to do with color choices.
It is still recommended to stay with the base 200-odd "safe colors" (hex
codes 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, ff) so that users who might be running in 256 color
do not run into difficult raster effects for colors specified as "804040"
or "C0C0C0" -- a matter that applies also to jpg backgrounds. I note that
Word2000 provides this option as a hexagon-shaped clickable color chart hidden
behind the more colors button under backgrounds. I've not checked if Frontpage
has this, though it should.
One web-link for this safe web palette is
Visibone Webmaster's
Color
Lab .
* Dan Bowman spent some bytes on emails today,
among other things noting...
...and thanks for your "random links" page. I followed the 'dead tree
publishing' to someone I'm familiar with from his photo works (from my assistant
at the job). I hadn't made the name connection to the author of "Travels
with Samantha". Now I have some browsing to do on his web publishing and
database areas (before I go back to your site and continue with the next
one).
Just making sure we all keep busy. Nothing like some links to follow.
<grin>. Yep, there's a fair bit to look at on Greenspun's site. I like
his basic outlook (the server services for instance, though oddly the comment
server links have been largely unused by my readers.)
(The reference is to
www.greenspun.com, which I mention
on my
LeufOrg unsorted
links page.)
...and...
...and thanks (kinda'): useit.com is now in my Web Authoring Tools
file with lots of links to follow.......and follow.......and
follow......
'ya might check the "Conspiracy Arc-Hive" link; I'm getting a server
error and 404
Hmm, yes.
That
server does not seem very helpful today. If you are feeling
desperate for some conspiracy, you can always try:
http://www.google.com/search?q=arc-hive
Which will turn up "At least 368 matches for arc-hive". One advantage
of Google is that it has the pages cached, so you can still see them even
if they now are not on the web.
Happy browsing.
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