Site Homepage Review Requested www.nss.org

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:53:17 -0500, Jim wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I am Jim Plaxco, a volunteer member of the National Space Society's
Internet Development Team.

I was hoping that some of you here could give us some feedback on our
web site, particularly our home page.

Our URL is http://www.nss.org
snip!

The image in the left column of someone floating is resized using widht
and height attributes in the browser! This is a Bad Idea (TM). Hmmm... On
further look, it seems like the image of the Astra ad is resized like this
as well.

NEVER NEVER EVER use image width and height to resize an image -- that's
not what those attributes are for. Use an image editing program (e.g.
PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP) to resize the image. Image width and
height should *always* be the actual image pixel dimensions.

By doing what you did you are (1) wasting bandwidth and (2) making the
image look like crap.

later...

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Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffreyPANTS (AT) jhu (DOT) edu
Website | http://www.newtnotes.com (nothing there yet)

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Hi Jeffrey,
On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:40:53 -0400, Jeffrey Silverman
<jeffrey (AT) pantsjhu (DOT) edu> wrote:

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:53:17 -0500, Jim wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I am Jim Plaxco, a volunteer member of the National Space Society's
Internet Development Team.

I was hoping that some of you here could give us some feedback on our
web site, particularly our home page.

Our URL is http://www.nss.org
snip!

The image in the left column of someone floating is resized using widht
and height attributes in the browser! This is a Bad Idea (TM). Hmmm... On
further look, it seems like the image of the Astra ad is resized like this
as well.

NEVER NEVER EVER use image width and height to resize an image -- that's
not what those attributes are for. Use an image editing program (e.g.
PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro, The GIMP) to resize the image. Image width and
height should *always* be the actual image pixel dimensions.

By doing what you did you are (1) wasting bandwidth and (2) making the
image look like crap.

later...

Thanks. I'll pass this along. In defense of the person who put it out
there, I think it's a case of him being given a graphic and not having
at his disposal the software to resize it. Fortunately there is some
freeware and shareware out there that should fill the bill quite
nicely.

Thanks again for taking the time to check out the page.



Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org

Hi Adrienne,

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:46:31 GMT, Adrienne <arbpen2003 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net>
wrote:

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed Jim <Jim (AT) nospamwanted (DOT) com> writing
in news4dok01vpspgnv21tidkrjpm2g3svvjkeg (AT) 4ax (DOT) com:

(c) There's no way to bypassing the (repetitive) navigation on each
page
and getting to the main content.


Not sure that I follow you here. Can you elaborate please?



You should have a "skip navigation" link. You can either have it
visible, or you can use CSS to hide it from visual browsers.

Eg:
style type="text/css"
/*this would be better in an external stylesheet*/
@media screen {
.skip {display:none}
}
/*the following will cause the menu not to print*/
@media print {
#menu {display:none}
}
/style
/head
body
div id="menu"
a href="#content" class="skip">Skip navigation</a
/div
div id="content"
h1>The Page Title</h1
Lorem ipsum....
/div

Thanks for the advice. I'll pass this along to the rest of the team.
We have made minimal use of CSS thus far although I expect that to
change.

Thanks again.





Best Regards, Jim Plaxco
National Space Society http://www.nss.org
Astrodigital http://www.astrodigital.org