According to Greg Lepore:
> A few weeks ago I volunteered to look into a re-design of the htdig site.
> My results are at:
> http://rhobard.com/htdig/
> Please visit the site and let me know if you like the site and any
> suggestions you may have. My initial goal in the re-design was to make
> certain information (i.e. the faq) more prominent and to update the overall
> look and feel of the site. Geoff has already weighed in with worthy
> suggestions, which I implemented to the best of my ability. Currently the
> Advanced Search page has nothing on it, it will eventually be a "Show off"
> page for the search engine. The Search Form is not hooked up. Geoff also
> mentioned a surplus of empty space on the left navigation which I haven't
> seen in Windows (IE4,5 or Netscape4,6). The feedback page is also just a
> mock up. I verified that the internal links are working, and the pages
> validate to HTML 4.0 transitional.
> Let me know your opinions and don't be shy!
I like the general look of it! I also prefer scrolling rather than
frames, unlike Joe, but that's my personal taste.
Something's missing, though. In the current frames-based site, the
htsearch documentation loads a new frameset, which includes not only
the general info on htsearch, but also links to HTML form, Templates,
Search method, and (indirectly right now) Select lists. I can't seem
to find this on your version.
I think there should be a link to the documentation in the navigation
column on the left. It took me a while to find it! I doubt most
visitors will expect the need to look at two different places on the
page for links to the rest of the site.
Also, please be aware that whatever you use to deal with attrs.html
will need to be compatible with the means that 3.2.0b3 uses to generate
attrs.html from defaults.cc. We don't use this system yet on the main
site, because 3.2 is still in beta, but we will switch to it once the
stable 3.2.0 release is out.
Do you have a system for updating the menu in the left column of each
individual page, or are they statically entered in every page? I'm just
concerned about the maintainability of this.
That said, I do like the redesign. Good work!
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Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
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