Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lets try again My Photography Website
From: Jerry Lehrer <jerryleh@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:34:19 -0800
References: <NDEIJCBGJPIEPDFEENCMAEJDCIAA.kitmc@acmefoto.com> <3E51D2F3.8030906@webshuttle.ch>

Kit, Marko etc.

Nathan is completely correct.  His site is a pleasure to use, and has
good photos also.

And he doesn't show any ugly bags :-)

Jerry

Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> Kit,
>
> I have not even tried to visit Marko's site--if people who are on
> broadband complain about slow loading, then I am not going to bother
> with my ISDN connection.
>
> More importantly, I saw that he replied to someone who complained about
> viewing difficulties that he or she should install IE6. I think it is
> extremely presumtiuous of someone to suggest that people should change
> to a browser they do not like just to look at his pictures. Likewise, I
> will accept cookies and the need for annoying plugins from sites that
> provide me with a service I need (such as home banking) but I absolutely
> refuse to accept any of those things to look at a photo site.
>
> In all modesty, take a look at my site: no flash, no Javascript as far
> as I can tell, just text and pictures. I want to make it easy for people
> to look at my pictures, because I want lots of viewers and lots of
> feedback. You can view my site regardless of which browser you have,
> even if it is something ancient like Netscape 4.5; and even if you
> connect via modem, the download times will remain tolerable. I have
> noticed that all the good e-commerce sites also behave this way--because
> they want to make it EASY for people to buy from them. That should be an
> equally useful principle for all us budding artists here.
>
> Nathan
>
> Kit McChesney | acmefoto wrote:
> > Poor Marko. He's got a great site. Why can't anyone see it? I can! Thank
> > you, Marko! Your work is great!
> >
> > Folks, if you'd just download a Flash player, you could view Marko's site.
> > Everyone uses Flash these days. It won't bite you, won't hurt your machine,
> > won't expose you to a virus, or anything. It will, however, allow you to
> > view some absolutely marvelous online content, and allow you to see a really
> > top-notch Web site (Marko's) with some great photographs. You can also
> > enable your browser to view with frames, too.
> >
> > Maybe it's a bandwith problem. The images are large, but still ...
> >
> > Accepting cookies, viewing with frames, and using Flash to see a Web site is
> > de rigeur these days, and is not going to mark you as a Communist, a
> > Liberal, or even as an Anarchist. Refusing to do these things will, I
> > venture to say, mark you as retrograde, in the world of the Internet (not to
> > mention keeping you from having a blast online! ;-)
> >
> > Kit
> >
> >
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> >
>
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>
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> mobile: +41 78 732 1430
>
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>
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Replies: Reply from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> (Re: [Leica] Lets try again My Photography Website)
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Message from Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> (Re: [Leica] Lets try again My Photography Website)