When I want to know what my local weather is like, I look out the window. When I want to know the forcast (rarely), I watch broadcast news, or the weather station on tv for a few minutes.
I tend to agree with Adam. A company's main page should be about the company - not necessarily about the environment around their building. However, if the managers decide they want weather info, then I would handle it as a simple link on the main page to a weather page. This way, you are still providing the information, but minimizing the use of screen real estate for it, and allowing the user to choose if they want to see it or not. My two cents worth. Shawn Grover -----Original Message----- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:51 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Intranet apps At 09:49 AM 03/08/2002 -0600, you wrote: >Not to ruin the party or be overly nosey, but please don't put local weather >information on your corporate intranet, that's just plain wrong in so many >ways. I don't understand what is so wrong about it, however your description below is obviously a flawed implementation. I see no reason why you can't get local weather based on the user's sign in. ( New York people see New York info, Chicago people see Chicago info, etc.. ) > When I worked for a global company based in Minneapolis, I would login >to their corporate intranet and 70% of the page was the local, Minneapolis >weather forecast. I'm sure the intentions were good, but everyone from New >York, Chicago, LA, UK, etc would get a nice big browser full of "26 and >heavy snow" each time they needed information about the actual company. It's >probably good to let people stick to their own sources for weather >information (morning news, newspaper, weather.com, etc), and keep the >intranet specific to the actual company. > >Adam. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Web Developer? Contact me! AIM: Reboog711 | Fax / Phone: 860-223-7946 -- My Books: http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My Band: http://www.farcryfly.com ______________________________________________________________________ Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusiona FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
