Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair Firkin jotted down the following: > I was going to say this a couple of days ago and then trashed the > post. On our Rollei board we have a great site designed to be > critical. > > For an example go to > > http://cgi.linkclub.or.jp/~dmakos/imgsquare/index.cgi Eh, sorry, but in no way can this be considered "a great site". Navigation to the comments is tricky and longwinded and the layout is confusing. Upon clicking on a comment link, it's difficult to see what is a comment, what is unnecessary header data, what is the navigation (i.e., how I see the other messages, the next message, the previous message, or go back to the index) and to top it off, the stuff that takes up most space on the page and is the first thing your eye is drawn to is the large, white space for leaving *my* comments. It has all the hallmarks of something designed by someone who is technically proficient (getting all the behind-the-scenes scripts working, the threading, etc.) but who has little or no design experience. Personally, I think that the low-tech approach is much better. To post a critique, simply include a link in your plain ASCII text email message to where the picture can be seen, and then write your critique in that same plain ASCII text email message. That way, you can have the email text up at the same time as the browser window -- and you can refer to what the author is writing about as you read the critique. M. - -- Martin Howard | Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | 53 kB/s and nothing on. email: howard.390@osu.edu | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +----------------------------------------