'sfunny how things go 'round. In September I was unhappy with my ISP and I asked for advice on alternatives. Which I got, and I'm now down to two contenders. (Thanks to those who passed on suggestions and personal experiences.)
But, before I actually move my website, I decided it was time for a major overhaul: I originally began by using MicroSoft Front Page, and it worked for getting my site up pretty quickly. But as I've learned more about HTML, I started looking at the generated pages from Front Page and I was pretty appalled: really ugly. And if I used the Front Page editor to make changes, when I saved the changed page Front Page would revert to its style. At the same time I've started to explore HTML5, which, while not yet a standard, seems destined to be the preferred markup for the web. Many browsers support most of the features already, and the direction the RFC is taking looks to be really nice. So I've just done a major overhaul of our website: used Notepad (and my colleague Hunter Cobb helped, using Notepad++) to rewrite over 350 pages in HTML5 with no Front Page garbage and my preferred style of indentation and markup. This also gave us a chance to change some styles, improve some layouts, fix broken links, rewrite some of the prose, and so on. Fun. Most of these changes have been moved to my current site location for testing. All re-written pages have been validated using the W3C's HTML validation tool (pretty cool: http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload ) and most have been checked using five different browsers. But I have not been able to check the pages on small monitors, monitors with different resolutions, and on older browsers. Just too much. So here's my point: if you have the time and inclination, I would appreciate any feedback / problems with our website. Just get to http://www.trainersfriend.com and poke around. Let us know of any problems: * Links that don't work * Layout that doesn't look right on your system (tell us your browser name and version, and screen size and resolution) * Typos * Badly written prose We'll also be happy to hear any suggestions for improvements. Probably best if you reply directly to me, off list, which is why I set the reply-to back to me instead of to the list. Thanks for any time and effort you can put into this on our behalf. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
