Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:50:30 -0700 From: Daemeon Reiydelle <daemeonr@Anthros.Com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: How do I search the site? Message-ID: <36185E26.30ADBB6C@anthros.com> References: <3616FBBD.3FAB59D9@anthros.com> <36170144.1DADA0D6@anthros.com> <19981004161105.19847@welearn.com.au>
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Please understand that the "visual perception thing" is not looking carefully. I don't mean with a magnifying glass, I mean I was careless. If your question was: "how could we make it obvious", then that answer is clearer from some ergonometric stuff I did at HP for a site I did there (which only makes my missing the obvious even worse!). People tend to focus on differentiated groupings on the screen: e.g. sectioned off or "focus areas" (I swear I didn't make this up) to the upper left or (and you got it right here) across the upper part of the screen. By the same token, a non-differentiated navigation bar doesn't "catch your eye" in this web-world full of eye candy. Your solid yellow bar with a string of non-differentiated words doesn't reach out and shoute SEARCH INDEX HOME. I did see "application support documentation" (before I sent you my dumb email) and, because "Application Support Documentation" is a single topic to me, I failed to read the rest of the heading. Incidentally, there appears to be a mistake in the "simple" firewall config in /etc/rc.firewall for dns queries. Do you have any idea to whom I should mention this? Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:01:56PM -0700, Daemeon Reiydelle wrote: > > Daemeon is a half-blind dingbat. As soon as I returned to the site and > > began poking around I was greatly embarrased to find "Search" on the > > yellow bar. Please ignore the question below. > > Hehe, you're not the first to miss it. Right up top, bright yellow, > why don't people see it? Some visual perception thing perhaps. > Thanks for coming back to let us know. > > While the experience is fresh in your mind, do you have any idea > why this happens? Is there some way it could be made clearer? > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- -- Daemeon Reiydelle Systems Engineer, Anthropomorphics Inc. v - 510-524-0310 f - 510-451-0118 daemeonr@anthros.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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