Re: FAQs: What to do?

.----- On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 18:34:36 +0200, Veronica Karlsson posted:
|llizard wrote:
|> Veronica Karlsson wrote:
|> > Martin Atkins wrote:
|> > > http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/aaafaq/.
|> > >
|> > > Incidentally, that site is my proposal for the 'consistant style' of site
|> > > that I said I thought was important in the other post.
|> > >
|> >
|> > Linkblue text on a glaring white background?! No thanks!
|> 
|> For instance, I did not see this Linkblue text on a glaring white
|> background that Veronica mentioned. I saw the default grey background,
|> default black text, default linkblue ...
|> 
|
|http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/pics/temp/linkblue.gif
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OK, I've listened and since I seem to have been nominated as the maintainer
of the 'ASCIIArt Documents Archive' I've done the following...

* Styled the site using an external CSS file. This means that I can have my
'Linkblue text on a glaring white background' while any other mirror host
can change the CSS file as they please.

* Put a list of mirror sites in.

* Subdivided the documents as 'current' and 'old' documents.

Is it too much to ask not to have a 'Veronica' logo at the top of the page,
if I put in a place for a link to anything you please... something like
'This mirror hosted by <A HREF="insertURLhere">Insert Name Here</a>' in the
'home page'?

If that is still not enough, I will probably remake it to allow whatever the
host wants to the top and bottom of the pages, but the FAQs are currently
mostlt in plain text format, so adding colours and headings to those is not
an option.

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|> But I saw the list of FAQ links. And I could read them easily. And
|> that's what matters.
|> 
|
|I saw the linkblue text and found that difficult to read. I know I can
|turn it off, and it looks ok that way, but I wouldn't put something like
|that on my website (and what do people see who have instructed their
|browsers to not underline links?).
'------------------------
The blue used for the links is actually brighter than the other text, but I
can see how that could be annoying and not actually very obvious. I'm going
to have a little rethink on the 'default style' for the ADA, as currently it
is the same as the one on my /aaafaq/ sites.

Incidentally, the CSS specifies that links should be underlined... so if the
browser has CSS enabled the links should be underlined anyway.

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|>Martin, could you please put a space after each description and make the
|>lines shorter? (breaking the lines after "and" and "can")
'----------------------
Hmm... I'll just fiddle with the HTML a bit...
The only ways I can see of doing that are to...

1. Drop the Definition List and format it using headings and paragraphs.
This is ugly IMO.
2. Put a <p> at the end of each description. That's very bad HTML.
3. Use a separate <DL></DL> for each, making the source code terribly ugly
and defeating the object.

Any other suggestions?

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|"Make the lines shorter"??? llizard, if you want shorter lines you
|should not use such a wide window.
'--------------------------
The lines *should* just wrap around whatever width you have set... have I
done that wrong?

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|
|font-size: 10pt;
|
|Hmmm... From what I've heard, that is a Bad Idea.
'--------------------------
Well, I'm going to rethink the stylesheet anyway, so I'll probably change
that. Are you saying using font-size is bad, or it being 10pt is bad?

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|Also, there are different types of documents in the list, some are FAQs,
|some are tutorials, some are something else. Maybe split it up into more
|than one list and add some headers to help people find what they're
|looking for?
'-----------------------
That isn't a bad idea. I'll have a look and see what I can do in that
department.

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lol.... you're never red though are you? :o)

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