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Re: New WebAIM Site Released

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jun 12, 2006 9:50AM

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jared Smith wrote:

> Thank you all for your comments, especially the constructive ones. I'll do my
> best to reply to some of your comments.

I think it would have been adequate to mention who you are replying to,
i.e. who are the people whose words you quoted.

> Rewrite rules are coming onboard quickly.

I'm afraid some damage has already been done, though there can be a
recovery within a few months. When indexing robots get 404, they normally
remove the page from their database. It may take months to get back.
That's why redirects should be set first.

>> It doesn't fit in a browser window even in fullscreen mode. (Need for
>> vertical scrolling is of course acceptable on most pages, but main pages
>> should be viewable without scrolling.)
>
> Unless of course there is more information to present than could be
> reasonably presented without scrolling,

The amount of information on the main page is not something that falls
from the heaven. It's a site design decision. And it is of course the
amount of information that matters most when considering whether the page
reasonably fits in a window.

> We did not solicit public feedback - can you now wonder why? :-)

I'm afraid I do, and I find nothing amusing in it.

> As you well know, site design is not about pleasing everybody.

If that's an excuse for not asking for a review from people who use the
site, I wonder why you _now_ get involved in a discussion.

--
Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/