Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Webpages Online

Did you go look at the two *visible* examples I gave of an alternative
design?

Since my graphic design skills are minimal, and the PostGreSQL pages
has display nearly *all* the problems associated with vanity sites
whose goal is to show off the graphic designers ability and not
provide information, I figured there wasn't much point, as I'd provide
a nice, simple site that loaded fast and displayed the information in
a readable form on pretty much any browser.

Since you whined about it, though - I did a quick front page
mockup. On the way I fixed the badly broken HTML by adding a TITLE,
making sure the image had an ALT tag so those who are using
non-graphical browsers, have images disabled, or have vision problems
can see them, fixed a typo in an anchor tag (may have introduced that
one myself - I can't check the original now), ditched the more
egregious of the formatting cruft, and in general made the HTML legal.

If you really want to see it, it's at <URL:
http://www.phone.net/home/mwm/postgresql.html >. It's not pretty - but
it can be bookmarked, and shows up sane in history lists, and I can
use it on my cell phone, none of which is true of either old site.

Interesting - the old site is back. It still has the frames (which, as
a number of people have pointed out, are problematical), and I suspect
the HTML is as broken as it was before, but haven't checked.

<mike

On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:19:16 -0300 (ADT)
> From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
> To: Mike Meyer <mwm(at)phone(dot)net>
> Cc: Oliver Andrich <olli(at)rhein-zeitung(dot)de>, Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>,
announce(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, webmaster(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Webpages Online
>
> On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Mike Meyer wrote:
>
> > How about ditching the frames entirely? Not only are they
> > problematical from a UI perspective, they're now passe. See <URL:
> > http://www.python.org/ > or <URL: http://www.freebsd.org/ > for a more
> > modern design.
> >
> > Of course, pages that put everything in a table to do layout load slow
> > and tend to come out ugly on anything that isn't pretty much a clone
> > of the designers system, but they beat frames hollow.
>
> Ya know what I'm finding really passe? Ppl that come up with these
> critisms but really don't present an alternative? I personally like the
> frames...I like not having to reload everything when only one piece
> changes...I thnk it *looks* nice...
>
> Of course, if you have a better idea of how the site should be lay'd out,
> please feel free to provide a *visible* example of your thoughts...
>
>
> > > <mike
> >
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Oliver Andrich wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 09:44:19 +0200
> > > From: Oliver Andrich <olli(at)rhein-zeitung(dot)de>
> > > To: Vince Vielhaber <vev(at)michvhf(dot)com>
> > > Cc: announce(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, webmaster(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
> > > Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New Webpages Online
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > ok I am new to PostgreSQL and my mirror of the PostgreSQL pages is quite new,
> > > but I have to comment on this webpage design. I am not sure on what machines
> > > you work or what resolutions your display provides, but on my machine the page
> > > uses only 1/2 of the possible space in the web browser and it is really ugly
> > > to read the manuals in 16 line frame. Isn't it possible to design the frameset
> > > in a more flexible way? The fixed heights of the individual rows are really,
> > > really ugly.
> > >
> > > How about defining the top level frameset as <frameset border=0 frameborder=no
> > > rows="120,*,10%"> or so. Mixing fixed values, wildcards and percentage values
> > > is really bad style, but this is just a hint. And may be we should think about
> > > displaying the elephant besides the logo, cause it wastes a lot of valuable
> > > place in the middle frame.
> > >
> > > Just my $0.02.
> > >
> > > Best regards,
> > >
> > > Oliver Andrich
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 04:48:29PM -0400, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The new web pages are now online. All new look. All new feel. All new
> > > > logos. All new.................
> > > >
> > > > Vince.
> > > > --
> > > > ==========================================================================
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> > > > Online Giftshop Superstore http://www.cloudninegifts.com
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> > > >
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