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["Tor de Vries" <TDevries AT engenderhealth.org>]

Great!  I will keep the list posted about the SRH webmaster list.

 

The other audience question (which I didn't address) is browser compatibility.  Bandwidth aside, what browsers are used by your target audience: IE 4/5/6/7, Netscape 4/5/6/7, Firefox 1.5/2.0, etc.?  Thankfully you shouldn't have to deal with AOL's integrated browser (which ought to offer free pain reliever pills to web developers), but there may be compatibility issues with local/regional ISPs of which I am not aware.  Then, are you going to require any plugins?  This could be Flash, video (Windows Media, QuickTime, Flash Video, etc.), or other "rich media" content that has its own version requirements.  Also, you may want to use a scripting framework like jQuery that has specific browser requirements.  All things to consider.

 

On a related note: do you know of any browser statistics for developing countries?  I don't, but I wish I did!  One aspect of the SRH webmaster discussion group could be the pooling of web tracking data of localized web sites to help figure this out.  Or maybe someone has already done this, and I'm not aware of it.  (that would be cool!)

 

 

 

 

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From: grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jojo Almario
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:14 AM
To: Global Reproductive Health IT Support list
Subject: Re: [grhits] SRH webmasters question

Tor,

First of all, I want to thank you for the input you gave me on my previous question.  Secondly, although we discuss mainly technically and connectivity issues, I am not opposed to sharing development and web related issues.  If you are interested in creating a separate group, I definitely would like to join in.  I can also recruit a lot of people in my organization since we do a lot of web app/site development.

 

Jojo

 

From: grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:grhits-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Tor de Vries
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 10:59 AM
To: Global Reproductive Health IT Support list
Subject: [grhits] SRH webmasters question

 

Hello everyone...

 

Are any of you aware of online discussion groups specifically for webmasters working in the SRH field?  I've poked around online, and there are a lot of webmaster lists (such as the one at NTEN) but I don't see one specifically for SRH.  Think of it as the web design/development version of GRHITS.  I don't think GRHITS itself is appropriate, because many IT topics are not web-related (and many web topics are not IT-related).

 

If you know of one, let me know.  If not, however, would anyone be interested in participating in one?  I think SRH-related sites face some unique issues compared to other sites (corporate or NPO), and I also think that organizations in this sector might benefit from mutual agreements about online assets (even simple things, like how our sites link to each other).  If you know someone who might be interested, please forward this to them.

 

Earlier today, Bill Lester suggested to me that NPOKI might be a good host for such a group.  So we've got an idea, and we've got a location, now do we have any interest?

 

Let me know what you think.  Thanks.

 

 

 

 

Regards,

Tor

 

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Tor de Vries, MFA
Web Producer/Senior Designer at EngenderHealth

Phone: (212) 561-8538
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Email: tdevries AT engenderhealth.org
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