Re: [Hampshire] Don't tell Bill

Mark Johnson wrote:
> On Saturday 06 December 2008 11:03:38 Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 06 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly
>>> on my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites)
>>>
>> I like the picture and idea but it looks dreadful with JavaScript disabled
>> (NoScript). You may need to tweak your style sheets so that you get the
>> desired effect without looking ugly.
>>
>
> I concur, I just went on the site with NoScript (bear in mind a lot of
> security conscious people use it, and it's the 4th most popular Firefox addon)
> and was presented with a pile of overlapping incomprehensible text. Until I
> read Adam's post, I didn't even occur to me that it could have required
> Javascript, so you might want to play with that a bit.
>
>
we are quite prepared to rip apart the home page and start again,
possibly in Flash but I wouldn't know where to start with that. It needs
to be a glossy marketing type feel to it, not the functional beauty of
something like slashdot. With this re-think of the approach the home
page kind of needs to lead to all the sub pages, without looking like a
big index. Maybe a coverflow like thing of thumbnails of the sub-pages
or something like that.
> The only other suggestion I'd make is speed up some of the transitions between
> the text a bit. It takes about 7 seconds for the first text to appear, by which
> time I've lost interest. In general, I do like the general look and feel of
> the page, and it does handle different screen sizes pretty gracefully.
>
yes, I hate sites that handle screen sizes dis-gracefully, fluid width
is the only way.
> I'll start work on my Don't Tell Bill!
>
cool!
> Mark
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