[plug] website: phtml, screenshot sizes, etc

[Bret Busby]

Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> Bret Busby wrote:
> > A question, and, one or two suggestions, etc...
> 
> > 1. Question - what is phtml?
> 
> HTML with embedded PHP script.

I thought that the extension .php , indicated that. Am I correct in
that? If so, does that mean that they just indicate the same thing?

> 
> > 2. demo screen, from News page - is 1024 x 768; maybe 800 x 600 would be
> > better
> 
> How about a set of scaled choices? 1600x1200 1024x768 800x600 640x480 for
> example?

Perhaps, a set of links to each, so that a visitor can choose?

> 
> > 3. The header, across the top, and, the menu down the left side, of the
> > web pages, - perhaps they could be better done as frames? That way, they
> > would not need to be downloaded, and, redrawn, when one of the internal
> > links on the website is followed.
> 
> It's a pain in the rectum for a framesless browser. Because Josh has used PHP it
> should actually be possible to do both (plus maybe a text version) by, for
> example, referencing the same URIs through different hostnames, and coding
> accordingly. Maybe later.

Using frames in HTML, usually has an alternative, for frameless
browsers.

> 
> > 4. Any chance of mugshots of the office-bearers? Treasurer on Members
> > page is misspelt. Perhaps, on Members page, if not names, then, a count,
> > might be useful?
> 
> The one from Sesame Street would be classic!

Nein, nein... I meant the number of members... However, a picture of M
le Compte de Sesame Street, could be interesting...

> 
> > 5. Can you include some Perl or PHP, to display information, such as
> > "Driven by Apache, version...", "This server powered by Linux
> > version...", etc, to show that it is not running on MS products?
> 
> Try this:
> 
>     lynx -dump -head http://plug.linux.org.au/

Not being a user of Lynx, what does that do?

I have just had a look around, and I am having trouble finding any
website that includes these logo's at the bottom of the home page;
"Powered by...Linux", or "Powered by Apache", or, anything like that.
Even the local ISP's , or, the ones that I visited (iinet, dialix, wasp,
amnet), do not appear to display that. I am surprised, the GNU, PHP,
Perl, PostgreSQL, li.org, slug.org.au, opensource.org, gnome.org,
kde.org, freshmeat.net, slashdot.org, debian.org, corel.com,
caldera.com, websites do not display these logo's. I had believed that
the purpose of these websites, was to promote Linux, and Apache, and
related products. If they don't, that doesn't mean that PLUG shouldn't.
The redhat site does say that it is powered by redhat linux, but does
not mention a web server application.

> 
> > 6. Google Search, top right corner - should that have something like a
> > "Go", or, a "Search", button, beside the text box?
> 
> It doesn't actually need it. Just press Enter. An "I'm feeling lucky" might be
> appropriate, though.

Perhaps, an instruction "Key in the search topic, and press Enter",
would make it more clear...

> 
> > "Maling List" appears to show that all the members are males,
> > in desperate need of females...
> 
> Speak for yourself. I have a surfeit of them. (-:

Is that from that naked butt site...?

> 
> > 11. The name, in the top left corner - could it be made a bit bigger,
> > with the font operhaps a little more open? On my 15", 800 x 600 screen,
> > it is a little difficult to read.
> 
> Bigger, yes. Using more than times/helvetica/courier cross-platform often fails.
> I usually use <font face="$PREFERREDFONT,helvetica,sans-serif"> as this gets a
> serfless font on anything not text-based. I must confess that my $PREFERREDFONT
> is verdana.
> 


> --
> "If I employed software developers, and they gave me something
> like this, I'd shoot them." -- Abby Franquemont, on Windows

Perhaps, the solution to Windows, is defenestration?
-- 

Bret Busby

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