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Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

I'm redesigning my site. Here's a preview of the new look. I'd appreciate any feedback/comments. Thanks! (URL) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.general)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Thomas Main

Bram, Very nice looking site. I especially like the division of themes into space, air, land and water. I wish Lego would adopt a more simplistic scheme for its themes. I entered my dark ages before there really were themes; there was just TOWN and (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) back (...) Thanks. I used to have the site broken up into Town and Space, but I started having many models that didn't fit. I also needed a better way to organize the site without the fractal directory structure I used to have. (...) their (...) (26 years ago, 5-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Ben Vaughan

Bram Lambrecht writes: (snip) (...) Speaking of browsers, what version of Netscape is that? Ben Vaughan buster@marsbase.com www.marsbase.com ---...--- The few, the proud,...the plastic. (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) It's version 3 with pictures only in the toolbar, location and directory-buttons turned off. Maybe I should get 4 sometime... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 7-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) Like you, I am still with 3. But hasn't Netscape released 5 already? -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Mike Stanley

(...) Ught. I wonder how many people I'm locking out if I continue to design my site with 4.x or better browsers in mind? IE has a beta of 5 out - tried it but don't like betas of IE on my system. Didn't know Communicator/Navigator had released a (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Ben Vaughan

(...) Netscape 5 has only been released through the open source group Mozilla.org. You can get daily builds, but they don't include much besides the rendering engine, and there's no assurance it will run in the first place. I am looking forward to (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) They, (and me) have only themselves to blame for not upgrading. I have just been to lazy to do the download. -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Mike Stanley

(...) Well, for you (I guess) and most people (I assume), downloading a 4.x browser is a hefty chunk of time. Much easier to do it when you can grab it in a couple of minutes or less at work. I do that and either carry it home on removable media (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) Ack! Ack! (excuse me while I cough up a hairball) Please, spare me your smugness. :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Mike Stanley

(...) Sorry, I'm still having a lot of fun using this new toy. :( (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) It was just the envy speaking..... I have no prospects for fast net service anytime soon. Heck, my phone lines even fail the USR line-noise test, so I haven't even bothered trying a 56K modem. I am sorta out in the sticks here, so no cable (...) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Mike Stanley

(...) Hrmmm.... a quick estimate would be... 70 megs in about 50 minutes or so? Not good with the math. I probably have 150 megs to download tonight, but it's all smaller files and backups. I'll have to time it for you. :) (26 years ago, 9-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jasper Janssen

(...) Well, me - both 4 versions are way too heavyweight to do any surfing with (I'm in the habit of using about 4 windows at the same time, actively, so I can read while stuff gets downloaded :) Jasper (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Mike Stanley

(...) Time to upgrade. :) When this beginning of the semester rush is over I will get some time to actually work on my site, so I guess I need to think about this "writing for the people with old browsers" issue. I'm not inclined to worry about it, (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jasper Janssen

(...) Well, continuously, when cash is available and Lego isn;'t on sale :) (which is the same thing :) ) (...) Well If a site is cool enopugh I fire up Explorer 4. But most sites tend to work fine in scape 3, luckily :) Jasper (26 years ago, 18-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jacob Sparre Andersen

(...) Only the source. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: Jacob.Sparre.Andersen@risoe.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- LEGO: MOC+++c TO+++(6543) TC+++(8880) AQ+++ BV-- #++ S LS++ A-/+ YB72m (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) I just did! (Communicator 4.5) I hope to do more with CSS and would like to see what the capabilities of Netscape Composer are... --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jacob Sparre Andersen

(...) one day. It makes more sense than the current mixture of time, space and purpose. Play well, Jacob PS: I can't stand frames. Can't you get a similar look without the problems you get from frames? ---...--- -- E-mail: (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) Thanks. Even my separation brings up problems though. Like land vehicles that are used on different planets (they'll go in Space) and flying boats (I guess I'd pu them in Air) (...) What problems are you refering to? Using frames is the (...) (26 years ago, 8-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jacob Sparre Andersen

Bram Lambrecht (braml@juno.com) wrote: [ about frames ] (...) The main problem is that I can't refer to a specific "page" unless I break your frams. (...) You're right that you have to repeat some information if you use whole pages instead of (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Steve Bliss

(...) How standard is this meta-command? I'll just go try it on my server, but I'm curious. Steve (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Larry Pieniazek

Another approach that is not server dependent is to use a macro processor like Chainsaw. This uses a macro language in your HTML which you expand before uploading. Chainsaw is written by fellow CTPer Bill Burke, of Australia. I've played with it and (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Matthew Miller

(...) It's not really a "meta-command", it's SSI (server side includes). Which is very standard -- part of NCSA HTTPd and Apache, and most commercial servers (not sure about Microsoft's). But the real question is: has your web admin enabled it? (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jasper Janssen

(...) Admin? You mean me? *hasn't set up a web site yet, but will be trying to host on his own comp if possible - if the bandwidth requirement isn't too great, it'll work* Jasper (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jacob Sparre Andersen

(...) Ups. Syntax error. It should be  (...) It is built into Apache (which is running half of the world's web servers), so it's likely it's there. The problem is that your system administrator may have (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jim Baker

Also sprach Jacob Sparre Andersen: : It is built into Apache (which is running half of the world's web : servers), so it's likely it's there. The problem is that your : system administrator may have deactivated it, or only activated it : for files (...) (26 years ago, 12-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) Oh, is that what the shtml extension is? I wondered about those. This sounds interesting. Does anyone know of an online reference that further explains SSI? You know, "SSI for Dummies" type page? :-) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Jim Baker

Also sprach Terry K: : Does anyone know of an online reference that further explains SSI? : You know, "SSI for Dummies" type page? :-) Infoseek is your friend! I did a search for 'Server Side Include' and got back the following, among others: (URL) (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Terry Keller

(...) Infoseek? Why do that when I have "Beakerseek". :-) (...) -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) AFAIK, my system administrator is running webstar, or something like that. --Bram Bram Lambrecht / o o \ BramL@juno.com ---...---oooo-----(_...o---...--- WWW: (URL) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)

Re: Redesigning my site... —Bram Lambrecht

(...) I suppose I could write a little script that anyone could link to which would place the page in the correct frames, but that doesn't really solve the problem. Is there a way to check if a page is inside frames? (...) I'm not sure this would (...) (26 years ago, 11-Jan-99, to lugnet.publish)