[Rover] OT: web-pages

[Allen S. Huber]

Mike,

It's me again!

Not EVERY community college...or at least not EVERY community college
instructor!

Over the last several years I have taught the Introduction to Internet and
HTML 3-credit class and a weekend Web page design class at the local
community college (Montgomery County in suburban Philadelphia) and we code
it all by hand.  I admit to my students that there are "easier" ways
(they're gonna find out anyway since the college runs FrontPage and
Dreamweaver classes as well, and the textbook mentions such "convert to
HTML" features) but I do what I can and do not encourage it.  They grumble
and complain, but when it's all done at least they know what all that stuff
is when they do "View Source".  Unfortunately these classes seem to be
falling out of popularity...I wonder if it's because of the "easier" ways to
build the pages?  Perhaps it's like so much else these days...do it the
easiest way, not the best.

73, Allen, WG3E




-----Original Message-----
From: Mike KA5CVH Urich <ka5cvh@ka5cvh.com>
To: Rover <rover@mailman.qth.net>
Date: Monday, September 02, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: [Rover] OT: web-pages


>Hey folks a few suggestions.
>
>When building up your web-pages, please do not use the "convert to HTML"
>function of MS programs such as Word, PP, or Excel!  Yes, I know that's
what
>every community college in the country teaches, but pulllease.  These
>programs place way to much unnecessary code into a page which increases the
>load times tremendously.  Something like 85% of the people in the US are
>still on dial-up and the longer it takes for a page the load, the quicker
>they are to move onto something else.  Ideally no page including all text
>and photos etc should exceed 60k.  Just to let you know I'm guilty too ...
>I've got a page that I'm just going to have to reduce the size of the
>thumbnails because the page (with thumbnails) is approaching 100K now.
>
>Also, standardize your fonts on a plain white background.  Not everyone may
>have the same font packages as you, and while certain background and font
>color combinations may look, "kewl", in your browser, with your video card
>and monitor, they may not look all that great on other computers.  Keep
>things simple, I'm one who believes that ham radio web-pages are to share
>and exchange information, and not to display our html skills (or the lack
>thereof).  Basic html is really quite easy and even fun.  Check out
>http://www.htmlgoodies.com for html coding tips.  Also if you want to see
>what someone else did to code a page, just right click in an open part of
>the page, left click on "view source" and you'll see the code for the page.
>
>Lastly, remove unnecessary product logo links (get IE, get NS, get Adobe,
>the time, the temp etc etc ad nauseum) these too also increase the load
time
>of your pages.  I have all the software I need and if I want to know what
>the weather is where you live I'll go look it up on intellicast.com.
>
>Think along the lines of Joe Friday, "the facts m'aam, just the facts"  End
>of rant ... y'all have a great Labor Day.
>
>Mike Urich,   KA5CVH
>www.ka5cvh.com
>LaPorte TX   EL-29
>
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