On Thursday 02 December 2004 17:03, James Knott wrote:
Lessee now...
Go to www.suselinux.com Click on SuSE Linux Professional
I hadn't even realised that heading (and the body text below it) was a link. One is apparently supposed to guess that that text, which is the same colour as the body text below it (which also seems to form part of the link) and which has no adornment, is a link. This strikes me as an "interesting" web design ethos. (Not to mention inconsistent: All the other links in the body of the page have a little arrow beside them, which is better (and which implies that things without an arrow aren't links)). Confusingly, though, the headings have an angled arrow, and aren't links ... and several of the links open in a new window, which is silly ... if I want a link to be opened in a new window, I'll tell my browser to open it in a new window, thanks...). Anyway, the site on the end of that link is actually not _too_ bad, and seems to have much of the stuff that used to be present (and better laid out, faster to load, etc.) on the old site. So that's good. Incidentally, why does the page only go half way across the screen? (or rather, completely ignore the width of the browser window, thus appearing too wide or too narrow depending on your display resolution). I seem to remember some of the poorer websites from last century also displayed this characteristic, but there's no need for it these days (unless maybe you use IE, in which case you deserve everything you get. I don't know about that sort of thing, and prefer to remain in that state). The old SuSE site went all the way across. I paid good money for those pixels ;/ The layout may be terrible, and it may be a slow-to-load site, but at least it's valid HTML, which is better than many. Look on the bright side. And presumably the price of SuSE distributions will go down too, now that 1 US dollar is only worth 75 cents (or 52 pence), and with Novell being a USA-based company. -- Bill Gallafent.