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Posted by Neredbojias on 08/05/07 09:39
Well bust mah britches and call me cheeky, on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:52:55
GMT Blinky the Shark scribed:
>>>> Did you use a cc?
>>>
>>> Visa. $12.46 in April last year and 13.91 this April. No other
>>> charges.
>>
>> Hmm, I wonder what happened? Maybe there're getting greedy with new
>> users, I dunno. I may still have the documentation on the whole
>> thing. Will have to look.
>
> I have connections within the industry. My uncle is a loan shark.
<Expletive deleted> *Groan*
>>>> I've looked at your current effort a few times, and it seems pretty
>>>> damn good to me. Probably the best thing to remember when
>>>
>>> Why, thank you.
>>>
>>> My main goal has been simplicity and speed. I love fast downloading
>>> sites; I'm heavily influenced by the plain-jane pages I get from
>>> many/most of the Linux documentation and help sites, RFC sites, and
>>> stuff like that. Unless I'm *looking* for images, I don't need them
>>> -- they're of little use on an informational pages. I'm on a
>>> dialup, and I
>>> have and will try to continue NOT making stuff that takes two
>>> minutes a page for the other good folks that are, for whatever
>>> reason(s) on dialups.
>>
>> You're a man after my own heart. -Er, shark. Although my site is
>> virtually all thumbnail links and images, I have 2 index pages: one
>> normal and one lite. Even the normal one's fast; it has a handful of
>> small images and (now) a short video which, however, only loads for
>> hi- speed users. (Opera may be a temporary exception, but I'm
>> working on that.)
>
> I hate long paper-towel-roll pages with tons of large images. My
> buddy made one of those with photos of his new (and first) house a few
> years back. I spent a whole evening making that into a gallery with a
> thumbs page, and stuck it on Blinkynet for him.
Yeah, a page can be _too big_, even ignoring speed. I think I like
something between 2 and 3 viewports (maximized) best, although content
can play a part. While Googling, I've run across a few sites which were
basically lists (of software, for instance,) that actually seemed too
short to suit me as well.
>> The lite page loads almost instantly, even on dialup. It's basically
>> just 2 columns of links and a form, although it can be set at the
>> visitor's option to provide hover images related to the links. All
>> the fancy stuff is javascript but completely non-essential.
>
> I've never done a lick of js, at this point. Can't count on people
> having it enabled.
Oh, but you can do _so_ much with it! As the regulars keep saying,
though, it should never be essential to the page.
>> ...snip
>> Simplicity also abets functionality no matter how much of a wizard
>> one is. Complicated things tend to break easily in html.
>
> There ya go. And maintenence is more fussy.
Precisely. My problem is that when I finish a page, I soon get bored
with it, so I keep adding and adding and adding... It's enough addle the
brain!
--
Neredbojias
Half lies are worth twice as much as whole lies.
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