New Homepage...

Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 01:27:42 -0300 (ADT)
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To: "Andrew D. Wright" <adw@chebucto.ns.ca>
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I suppose the text page could use a revamp too.  Your ideas make a lot of
sense.

 

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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Andrew D. Wright wrote:

> 	The theme I see repeated here is no room. Replacing 7 links with 2
> frees up quite a bit of space. Anyone who finds their IP by subject can
> still do so, albeit with one more hop; there's room on the page for the 
> special notices being given on the graphic home page and there's a nice
> easy way to navigate to a group's site. 
> 
> 	You want to see some more radical ideas? I'm just brimming with
> them. We can lose two more links off the text home page and get even more
> room. Since there's links to it from every new format CCN page and it is
> good for graphics only anyway, we don't need the Site Map link. The Reseau
> communautaire link can go too as this part of the CCN site has not been
> maintained in years, has fallen into disrepair and no one is about to edit
> it. 
> 
> 	With all this space, the text-version home page format can even be
> revised to (shudder) look good on Lynx as well as provide additional
> functionality.
> 
> 	Or we could just leave things the way they are. Nothing ever has
> to change when it is all perfect to begin with, right?
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, David L. Potter wrote:
> 
> > 
> > As I understand it the new browsers get the brand-new homepage... some of 
> > the first/second generation browsers apparently have problems with the 
> > new page(s... is it just the new homepage or all the shtml pages????) and 
> > should get an older version...
> > 
> > Andrew is keen on changing the existing homepage... removing the subject 
> > links and substituting links to the new alphabetical and subject 
> > listings. If some browsers are having problems with the new homepage I 
> > would expect them to have similar trouble with the new alpha/subject 
> > pages but maybe I'm missing something...
> > 
> > I definitely would like to keep the old homepage for our dial-up text 
> > users until we can determine what _they_ would like done with the 
> > homepage... this may mean keeping three homepages alive for awhile or 
> > maybe simply leaving the current homepage alone and feeding the new 
> > homepage to browsers that can handle it...
> > 
> > I've ccreated a couple of new Lynx shortcuts that point to the new 
> > alpha/subject pages and I've got a notice up in the motd refering people 
> > to these pages and asking for any comments to be sent to editors... 
> > 
> > david potter
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, David L. Potter wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Andrew should be ready to go with the new homepage by tomorrow night.
> > > > 
> > > > He's still making a couple of changes and will confirm when he's ready 
> > > > for the redirect.
> > > 
> > > OK. What exactly are we redirecting? Lynx users to the old homepage?
> > > 
> > 
> 

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