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Index of Subjects I suppose the text page could use a revamp too. Your ideas make a lot of sense. ------------- 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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