[Miata] New homepage on miata.net

[Larry Alster]

Been like that since May 2004


Larry

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Franklin 
  To: 'Keith Tanner' 
  Cc: miata at realbig.com 
  Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 11:39 AM
  Subject: RE: [Miata] New homepage on miata.net


  Keith,



  If you want to know what a web page looked like in the past you need "The Way Back Machine."

  http://www.archive.org/index.php



  If you put www.miata.net into it you see what it looked like all the way back to 1997.  And if you look at the Jan 1, 2006 version you will see that it is horizontally constrained (at least it is on my monitor).



  By the way we are snowed in here today.



  Bill

  Bill Franklin
  k9eif at mchsi.com 

  -----Original Message-----
  From: miata-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:miata-bounces at realbig.com] On Behalf Of Keith Tanner
  Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:57 PM
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  Cc: miata at realbig.com
  Subject: Re: [Miata] New homepage on miata.net





    People are way too focused on how pretty a page is rather than how
    useful it is.  Text wraps nicely. 


  Actually, it's easier to make a  consistent and effective interface (these aren't the same thing as pretty) if you do have some constraints. Allowing the page to flow all over the place to meet hugely varying screen sizes is a real challenge, and sometimes it's best to set it up so it makes maximum use of the target design size in order to make it work well for everyone. 

  Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the front page always constrained horizontally? I don't remember.





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