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Re: New site stuff
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 20:45:18 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> > The top blue band (the "toolbar" or whatever you want to call it) is there
> > for several reasons:
> > [...]
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> There's one other important thing... The homepage, as a whole, is a
> compromise between pure utilitarianism and a traditional frienly homepage.
> Ideally, the first time you ever wander in and see the site, the homepage
> would look much different and much more "friendly" -- most of the stuff at
> the top could move lower, and there could be more colors and/or inviting
> images, and more prominent links to "what's here" and "getting started"
> types of things.
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> Perhaps the homepage presentation can later be a user-selectable preference,
> with a friendly default and more utilitarian/expert/power-user alternatives.
Why not have two home pages, index.html which would be the friendly one,
with a link at the bottom to the "power" home page, home.html or
power.html? Sounds like a good idea.
--
Frank Filz
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Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) I think that could get us part of the way there, but I think it also creates additional problems. If there were two highly visible URLs for the homepage, then: 1. Experienced/power users would have to click that link each time they wanted the (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) There's one other important thing... The homepage, as a whole, is a compromise between pure utilitarianism and a traditional frienly homepage. Ideally, the first time you ever wander in and see the site, the homepage would look much different (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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