Re: Need Feedback for my Website and Directory

"BerneyBoy" <BerneyBoy.1q9iry (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote in
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If anyone has some input on my website and the way it works, please let
us know. Please let us know if you have encountered any problems, slow
loading times, etc. We are constantly working to improve InfoVisual
website and would appreciate your feedback.

Website : http://www.infovisual.info/
Directory : http://www.infovisual.info/directory/

ANY COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS WILL BE APPRECIATED.

Many thanks,

Bernard Dery
Webmaster of infovisual.info


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BerneyBoy

Very minor point as I only had a moment to check it out. Why do you have a
US and a French flag?

In message <vu6dne9Vq6gprjvfRVnygw (AT) pipex (DOT) net>, T Wake
<taswakeAt (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> writes

"BerneyBoy" <BerneyBoy.1q9iry (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote in
message news:BerneyBoy.1q9iry (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au...

If anyone has some input on my website and the way it works, please let
us know. Please let us know if you have encountered any problems, slow
loading times, etc. We are constantly working to improve InfoVisual
website and would appreciate your feedback.

Website : http://www.infovisual.info/
Directory : http://www.infovisual.info/directory/

ANY COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS WILL BE APPRECIATED.

Many thanks,

Bernard Dery
Webmaster of infovisual.info


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BerneyBoy



Very minor point as I only had a moment to check it out. Why do you have a
US and a French flag?


Let me guess: An English language version, and a French language

version?

regards.
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Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, jake wrote:

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Very minor point as I only had a moment to check it out. Why do you have a
US and a French flag?

Let me guess: An English language version, and a French language version?

If so, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/flags.html

"Flag as a symbol of language - stupidity or insult?"

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Alan J. Flavell <flavell (AT) ph (DOT) gla.ac.uk> writes

On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, jake wrote:

[excessive quotage now snipped]

Very minor point as I only had a moment to check it out. Why do you have a
US and a French flag?

Let me guess: An English language version, and a French language version?

If so, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/flags.html

"Flag as a symbol of language - stupidity or insult?"

But did I guess right?

Regards.

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Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

"jake" <jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote

Let me guess: An English language version, and a French language version?

regards.
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Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

Silly me. I thought it meant there was an American and a French version so I
never went any further into the site. Being neither I thought there was
nothing there for me.

If there had been an English flag I may have realised it meant English and
looked in.

In message <aLedndgRWPEUnjffRVnytQ (AT) pipex (DOT) net>, T Wake
<taswakeAt (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> writes

"jake" <jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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Let me guess: An English language version, and a French language version?

regards.
--
Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)


Silly me. I thought it meant there was an American and a French version so I
never went any further into the site. Being neither I thought there was
nothing there for me.

Sure. Easy mistake to make.

If there had been an English flag I may have realised it meant English and
looked in.

... or maybe an animated .gif of a Beef-eater standing against a
background of the Tower of London and waving a banner that says 'This
way to ye olde English version of this Webbe Site" .......... something
like that?

regards,

--
Jake
(jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk .... just a spam trap.)

"jake" <jake (AT) gododdin (DOT) demon.co.uk> wrote

Sure. Easy mistake to make.

If there had been an English flag I may have realised it meant English and
looked in.

.. or maybe an animated .gif of a Beef-eater standing against a background
of the Tower of London and waving a banner that says 'This way to ye olde
English version of this Webbe Site" .......... something like that?

That would work better for me. Either that or use some other method to
indicate there are different language versions.

"BerneyBoy" <BerneyBoy.1qx8yc (AT) no-mx (DOT) forums.yourdomain.com.au> wrote in
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I liked the conversation I have seen the last few days. I understand
that flags are somehow politilized symbols. However, it is the most
used symbol on Internet because it allows a quick identification of the
language used. I don't think that there is a perfect visual solution. I
have made little modifications on my website to improve it.


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BerneyBoy

Strictly speaking - are the flags needed? You are trying to get across a
visual cue to the language used - maybe a graphic of the word would be
better than a flag. You now have the text as well, so why keep the image. If
you need a visual clue, why not try to develop something unique?

I am not 100% sure why the American flag is used to denote English language
(I am speaking in general terms now). Is it to differentiate spelling I
wonder. :-)

BerneyBoy wrote:

I liked the conversation I have seen the last few days. I understand
that flags are somehow politilized symbols. However, it is the most
used symbol on Internet because it allows a quick identification of the
language used. I don't think that there is a perfect visual solution. I
have made little modifications on my website to improve it.

Flags are often used and I can understand why, but as people have been
trying to tell you, you run the risk of confusing or offending your readers.

For example, Maybe you don't have Flemish, but if you did: how would
you identify it? It's not the only language of Belgium. For that
matter, Castillian is not the only language of Spain.

And there are at least 20 countries where Spanish is widely spoken.
It's possible that many people in South or Central America might not
recognize the flag of Spain.

The flag most often used for English is probably the Union Jack.
Experienced Internet users in the US know they can look for the Union
Jack, but what about those who don't know?

Why not just use the words for those languages, IN those languages? If
you like, use one or two colors to distinguish the languages, colors
that could be taken from the flags of the most "important" country that
uses each language.

--
Steven

Everything turns out all right in the end.
If it's not all right, it's not the end yet.

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, T Wake wrote:

[please trim your quotage to the specific points that you are
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Strictly speaking - are the flags needed?

Yes, they are useful to signify a geographic area, while confusing
those who are looking for a language. As has been discussed many
times before.

You are trying to get across a visual cue to the language used -

Why this emphasis on "visual"? WWW pages can be presented in whatever
way the *reader* wants.

maybe a graphic of the word would be better than a flag.

A graphic of a word? What's wrong with the word itself? (In its own
language, of course).