http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/128bit/default.asp

Is that close to what people are now discussing?  


- Simple menu, with a very light contrasting bg to make is a separate entity.
- Content Text without a contrasting background
- No overwhelming graphical elements like big text in bars, over use of lines
and so on.
- Nice subtle breadcrumb.
- Very simple color scheme

Secondary menu bar across top of page for quick links or links that are not
exactly related to the contents in the side bar is nice on some sites.  I
think MySQL does that.  I'd put the search box on the top bar to the far
right (below the word "Microsoft").

I do think a banner across the top of a page, even if it is a waste of page
space on some resolutions, ties a site together.  Brings the color scheme
together, and just provides a frame or anchor for the entire site.  The
current design seems a bit naked without one, but maybe that's just because
it's such a common design.  Maybe it's common for a reason?

Anyway, it's a very basic design which seems close to what people are
(were?) discussing.

<damn microsoft>
Why was I looking at that site?  It wasn't Samba causing problems, it was
NimbaA Virus.  IE5.5 is the only MS program I'm running and it has SP2
which I thought dealt with the Javascript entry point.  I don't open
attachments, and I'm not running IIS, and I have a tight firewall.  I can't
figure out how it got in.  Last couple of days it was able to write about
8000 .eml files on my share I have for my Linux dev machine.  No wonder
Samba seemed slow.
</damn microsoft>


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Bill Moseley
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