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  • From: Stephanie Gerson <sgerson@stanfordalumni.org>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] more updates and new plan
  • Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 14:44:12 -0800

HI AGAIN, MORE COMMENTS. I KNOW THIS CAPS THING IS AWFUL. PLEASE HELP
ME MAKE THE TRANSITION TO ANOTHER MAIL CLIENT. OK:

[ABOUT THE 2 SEARCH BUTTONS ON THE HOMEPAGE:] It can go away anytime if
you want, I'm not really attached. It would be nice to have a bit more
content on the front page.

YES, I WOULD LIKE IT TO GO AWAY PLEASE ;) 2 IN THE EXACT SAME VIEW IS A
BIT MUCH. BUT IF YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED TO HAVE 2, MAKE THEIR UI CONSISTENT
- SEARCH BUTTON UNDERNEATH AND TO THE RIGHT OF THE BLANK *OR* BELOW
CENTER, BUT NOT BOTH. (PERSONALLY, I PREFER TO HAVE THE SEARCH BUTTON
DIRECTLY TO THE RIGHT, ON THE SAME HORIZONTAL PLANE AS THE BLANK.)

WITH RESPECT TO CONTENT, I DON'T NECESSARILY THINK WE NEED MORE ON THE
HOMEPAGE AT THIS POINT. ONCE THE PROJECT GROWS, WE MIGHT HAVE NEWS
UPDATES, PHOTOS, ETC. BUT FOR NOW, KEEP IT SIMPLE. IF WE DON'T HAVE
CONTENT, NO NEED TO ADD JUST FOR ITS OWN SAKE.

This is really only two shades of green and two shades of gray. I
need another color. I'll play with this for a bit and see what
happens.

DOESN'T THAT MEAN IT'S 4 COLORS TOTAL? WOULD YOU LIKE MORE? (I HAD MORE
THAT I ELIMINATED FROM THE LIST BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO BOMBARD YOU WITH
COLORS!)

I think massively linked information is very helpful if the links
actually go to helpful places, including navigational hints. I think one
way of making it less messy visually is to tone down some of the default
link behaviors like different color and underline. Currently it's {
font-size: 105%; font-weight: bold; } but I think underlining would be
ok too. My first goal was readability followed by accessibility. Can
you tell me more why you prefer links blue and underlined beyond the
fact that that it is the way it ussually is?

BECAUSE YOU CAN'T TELL THEY ARE LINKS UNTIL YOU SCROLL OVER THEM, AND
PEOPLE MIGHT NOT THINK TO DO THAT (HEY, YOU HAVE 2 SEARCH ENGINES ON THE
SAME PAGE - SO YOU UNDERSTAND THIS ISSUE). THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE BLUE,
BUT I PREFER UNDERLINE TO BOLD FOR A LINK. AND THE FACT THAT THAT'S THE
WAY IT USUALLY IS A VERY IMPORTANT REASON.


> â?? Previous page/next page buttons are messy â??
> can you please have something like google (where users can jump
> ahead/behind more than one page)

Yes, eventually as this is an aspect of Eden, not the website. This
would be the sort of thing I'd expect to see as a feature request in
our issue tracking system. For right now, just remember that you want
this.

ACTUALLY, CAN YOU REMEMBER PLEASE? I HAVE TOO MUCH ELSE GOING ON WITH
GRANTWRITING, ETC. DO YOU HAVE AN ONGOING LIST OF COMPONENTS YOU INTEND
TO ADD TO THE WEBSITE? THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA.

I SWEAR, I JUST SOUND MORE RUDE IN CAPS EVEN THOUGH I TRY NOT TOO!
LOOKING FORWARD TO LOWER-CASE DAYS...

PEACE
*S

--
Chad Knepp
Perl - $Just @when->$you ${thought} s/yn/tax/ &couldn\'t %get $worse;
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