[plug] [OT] Cancer support website

[Jacqueline McNally]

Hi Leon

Computer Angels were successful in a small grant from the Colorectal 
Project, Cancer Foundation of WA to allow us to participate in the 
Australia's Biggest Morning Tea (ABMT). The plan is/was to visit the Cancer 
Foundation of WA web site as a launching pad to other useful sites. We 
obtained the grant as the purpose of the morning tea is to show people how 
to access bowel cancer information on the Internet. You may be aware, that 
many people, when diagnosed with cancer go off on a fact finding mission.

Fortunately or unfortunately I did not design the www.cancerwa.asn.au web 
site. I have carefully collected the errors and omissions discussed here 
and offlist to send to the Cancer Foundation's web site development people, 
in the hope that they may be able to fix them before the day.

For the ABMT and World Telecommunication Day, the main objective is to 
access the Internet. Most visitors will be not concerned that it is Linux 
as opposed to another OS, just that they are using a computer and accessing 
the Internet. They will be shown how to enter an URL/Location/web address, 
reload/refresh, stop, forward and backward and to follow links displayed on 
the web page and so on. These skills are portable :)

Thanks again for your assistance.

All the best
Jacqueline
http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/users/zenryaku/

Community Contact, Australia/New Zealand
OpenOffice.org Marketing Project
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At 08:18 AM 05/12/2002, you wrote:
>Jaqueline, WestNet's JavaScript menu system does some similar things in
>Konqueror to the cancer website you asked us to test (e.g. menu backgrounds
>not fully painted), but unlike the cancer site, the selections in WestNet's
>menus actually work for me. It might be worthwhile comparing the code between
>them.
>
>I also had a thought that you might try padding a menu name out with ` '
>characters (and/or replacing the spaces in the menu item names with ` ')
>to see if that makes Konq happier.
>
>Cheers; Leon