Re: website draft 4, help wanted

[Tim McNamara]

On Jul 8, 2009, at 4:54 AM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:

> On di, 2009-07-07 at 23:26 -0700, Graham Percival wrote:
>
> Hi Graham,
>
> > I disagree; I think we've spent *too much* time on the look/feel
>
> Yes, I understand that's how you feel. It's exactly why I sent my  
> mail,
> and why I reacted so strongly on this.
>
> > Modifying the CSS files can be done at any time,
>
> Well, yes, but it's a matter of priority.  We have different
> priorities, and I need you to see that my priority list actually
> makes more sense, from a certain pov.

I agree with Graham on two fronts here.  First, "look and feel" is  
less critical than content and organization at this stage in the  
development of the new Web site.  Second, modifying the CSS is  
trivially easy (assuming the site uses a separate CSS file, as it  
should) once the design parameters are settled.  And, third, I think  
that a badly written and badly organized Web site deters users far  
more than one which is not pretty.

My request, to Jan and others who are concerned about the look and  
feel, is to start writing CSS files that result in pages that look  
the way they think the pages should look.  Then let the list know  
about them the CSS so that we can have a look at them.  The look and  
feel are clearly not Graham's top priority here, so others should  
probably do this.