From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Sep 26 14:23:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from hood.tvd.be (hood.tvd.be [195.162.196.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DBF137B42B for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cocaine.cryolabs.net (cable-213-132-151-97.upc.chello.be [213.132.151.97]) by hood.tvd.be (8.9.3/8.9.3/RELAY-1.1) with ESMTP id XAA21040 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:23:18 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 23:22:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Wouter Van Hemel To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Branching www/ for XML development In-Reply-To: Message-ID: PGP: 0B B4 BC 28 53 62 FE 94 6A 57 EE B8 A6 E2 1B E4 (0xAA5412F0) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26 Sep 2001, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Please say if kibitzers are unwelcome in discussions like this; > I'm new here. > Same goes for me. :) > It may be just my imagination but I'm sure I'm not alone in finding > reading through portholes just disturbing or claustrophobic. Also makes > makes me feel I'm having something forced upon me which I didn't ask for > want (even if it IS good for me). Makes me kind of mad at the provider. > I really have to agree. To have this structure on all generated pages might be overkill, and give too much distraction for people looking for specific contents - a bit of a too 'spammy' look. On some pages -such as the homepage itself- this doesn't matter, since homepages traditionally show the broad selection of information contained in or related to the site. > ... > > For many pages (articles, etc) I think it would be best to let the > content author do everything except a panel or two at the bottom for > navigation and anything the web site wants to say. (Actually, I'd > also have a small footer frame with a few links to the home page, > nav page, page index, etc., but I guess frames have been ruled out.) > This seems like a good idea to me. In rather specific content-pages, a header and footer may be suffisient. A long page could contain small 'back to top' - buttons, this works almost as efficient as a side-menu. As I see it, there are two types of pages, ones that have a more 'referring' function - those could be packed with links, new-headlines, polls and whatever other goodies, and others that have a more 'destined' function, the information being a specific goal for the visite to the page. These pages have to lead the user back to a 'road map' page, ofcourse; but have a myriad of links and referrers on every page, may have a tiring and distracting effect. Imagine you have to read loads of pages like that... or print them... Just my idea. / wouter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message