RE: first draft, The GNU Hurd WWW Sitemap

[Jim Franklin]

Hi folks,
 Neal, I took your suggestions (for the most part) and have rebuilt the
page.

http://members.home.net/cykick/software/hurd/the_hurd_links.html

 Please check it out using lynx. I tried changing the visited links to
purple (#9900DD) and found it to be too boring. I left it as fuchsia (pink).
I guess I am still a hippie at heart and have spend too many years listening
to the Grateful Dead but I really like fuchsia.
 Anyway, I can use some more critiques.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: Neal H Walfield [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Neal H
Walfield
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 7:03 AM
To: Jim Franklin
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: first draft, The GNU Hurd WWW Sitemap


On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 06:01:34AM -0700, Jim Franklin wrote:
> This is updated to 20010820. This is only a draft. The links to
hurd.gnu.org
> are not included for the most part since they will be added as the pages
are
> added:
>
> http://members.home.com/cykick/software/hurd/WWW_Sitemap.html
>
> Critiques please.

I think that it looks pretty good, however, a few comments:

  o I do not mind the pink, it just does not go with a white background.
  o Lists, try:

        <ul>
        <li> Header 1
          <ol>
          <li> Item 1
          <li> Item 2
          <li> Item 3
          </ol>
        <li> Header 2
          <ol>
          <li> Item 1
          <li> Item 2
          </ol>
        </ul>

    This will produce:


      o Header 1
        1) Item 1
        2) Item 2
        3) Item 3
      o Header 2
        1) Item 1
        2) Item 2

    This will make it work a bit better under lynx.  If you really just
    want to tab in, use <blockquote> Text </blockquote>.

  o I think that the list data is too verbose.

    For instance, when you are listing the mailing lists, you have the
    name, a link, and small description.  This is good.  Then, you point
    to the the archives; it is trivial to find the archives from the
    link that you already gave.  Eliding these lines will cut that
    section by half and you loose nothing.

    Also with ppp, you list three items, however, they all go to the
    same place.  Further more, this is not the correct way to get ppp,
    there is a debian package called um-pppd that the user should
    download.


Overall, it looks good and I am very happy that everything is coming
together now.

Thanks.