[Rover] OT: web-pages

[Dan Evans, N9RLA]

Guilty as charged!

As you have likely noticed, I use Frontpage Express to do quite a bit of my
web pages.  It's very convenient sometimes, although at other times it's a
real nuisance.

I still use notepad to do a lot of the stuff that FPE won't do, or won't do
right...  I"ve been at it for a few years now, but I'm still really a novice
as far as web design goes.  I've seen, and even used, some of the other web
design tools.  But I've never really been able to actually take the time to
learn to use them.

One of the big projects that I have planned for years for the Rover Resource
Page is to automate the Contest Plans lists.  I had in mind creating a web
form to interact with a database so folks could go to the site and fill out
the form to post their plans.  And then they could configure reports from
the database to find the listings they were interested in.  BUT, that's way
beyond my technical ability to implement.  And I'm not real sure if enough
folks would go to the web page and fill it out to make it worthwhile.

73
Dan

Dan Evans N9RLA
Scottsburg, IN 47170
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----- Original Message -----
From: Mike KA5CVH Urich <ka5cvh@ka5cvh.com>
To: Rover <rover@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 11:05 AM
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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