Summarizing the feedback from the first round:
Here's what's new this round.
1) I dumped the mouse rollover and replaced the 44 different menu
gifs with one navbar gif. This should help our European friends
suffering from slow load times due to downloading separate gif files.
2) The text now wraps around the navbar. Some found the white space
below the navbar ugly. I'm not convinced this is any better.
3) The status table should display OK in netscape.
4) The MSIE improperly terminated string bug is not fixed. I actually
think its a bug in MSIE.
5) I added alt tags to all <IMG> entries.
6) The icons at the bottom of prime.htm are in a neat little row - thanks
to someone that suggested putting them in a table.
Here are the big open issues. I've not decided how to resolve them.
1) I really wanted the menu to stay fixed in a frame (I like being able
to navigate anywhere in the site with one click and no scrolling), but
sentiment against frames is quite strong. Also the current navbar doesn't
fit in all screens (its 623 pixels high). I could offer a frames, non-frames,
and text-only versions without too much trouble.
2) The status and benchmark pages - the most difficult to convert to the
new style - now have trouble fitting in the browser window. I can try smaller
fonts or add enough text above the tables so that they appear below the
navbar.
3) A redesigned banner at the top of every page. Many others have
remarked how they too are poor graphic artists!
4) And, of course, organizing the content! Along with displaying it
in pleasing fonts and colors on a compatible background.
The latest incarnations can be viewed at:
http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/prime.htm
and
http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/status.htm
and
http://www.mersenne.org/newhtml/bench.htm
More comments are of course welcome!
Thanks again,
George
