scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 24 December 2001 22:46, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > So, we have numerous suckers who want to show that they are all that at web > > design. Great, let's see some proof. How about a design contest?
The people willing (and able) to take care of HTML maintenance need not necessarily be able to *design* a good web-page. I've supported myself with HTML, Javascript, PHP and the like for a few years now, yet I could not *design* anything. > What technologies are open for use? I assume the site will be run on > an Apache server that supports Perl (and possibly PHP). Should we > just use our own judgement and worry about configuring the server later? IMHO, nothing but pure (_valid_ !) HTML (4.01) including stylesheets /or/ XHTML is needed. The site is to be purely informational and does not need *any*thing dynamic as far as I can tell. I would vote against PHP or Perl etc. The site _must_ validate through the w3's validator (I recommend frequent use of "tidy". The site must be fully functional and navigational under non-graphical browsers and should be light and load really fast (read: (almost) no images). Considering these aspects, I don't see what's wrong with the original design -- but as I said, I'm not a person with graphical, aestethical or otherwise designer-related skills. Once a design has been chosen, I'll be glad to chip in with the occasional HTML maintenance -- alas, design I shall not. -Jan P.S.: Needless to say that, just as others, I have little free time (full-time job plus grad-school). -- http://www.netmeister.org http://guinness.cs.stevens-tech.edu/~jschauma/
