Fw: [Qcwa] Re: QCWA digest, Vol 1 #288 - 1 msg

[Bob N0UF]

> Cryptic file names are not suitable for a general interest page.

File names have little to do with how an html page looks or works.
>From the QCWA web site the file new-01.htm contains the new members
that applied last January.  From the Members page when you click on
the 01 in the new members section you know what your going to
see.  When you click on new-01.htm in the site index you don't
have a clue what your going to see until the file displays on your
screen.  If this file were named new-members-for-january.htm
you would still  click on 01 on the members page but would
have a file name that  means something in the site index.htm

So new-01.htm, a cryptic file name, works very well in a
general interest page but not very well in a site index.  Our
site is replete with examples like this.

> The HTML version should help  us lay people.
It does.  The next time you do a search on yahoo, ebay or the
ARRL web site take a good look at the URL that the html
generates so you don't have to type it.  Again, the file names
have little to do with how the data is displayed.

> but I just could not let that  ill-avised comment pass
Hardly ill-advised, back in the good old days of programming
we only had 80 charters per line and they didn't wrap.
Everything was very cryptic, file names, commands, everything.

So much for HTML 101

tnx for the bandwidth es 73
Bob N0UF
QCWA Webmaster
----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Henry Kaplan" <w1ael@mindspring.com>
To: <qcwa@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: [Qcwa] Re: QCWA digest, Vol 1 #288 - 1 msg


> Bob (N0UF)wrote the following silliness,
> "......Most file names used prior to my deciding to offer a site index
> are somewhat cryptic, shorter and easier to type, a very acceptable
> programming practice....."
>
> C'mon, Bob!  We really are not all Unix wizards!  Cryptic file names
are
> not suitable for a general interest page.   The HTML version should
help
> us lay people.  Thanks for the effort, but I just could not let that
> ill-avised comment pass.  Perhaps the long hours as a webmaster are
> taking their toll?
> Fraternally yours & 73,
> Allan H. Kaplan,
> W1AEL since 1954.
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