Re: [Ipaudit-devel] merry christmas and a happy new website

[Mian H K. <Has...@hu...>]

Chris,

	The copyright notices on each of the pages refer to the HTML, under Clinton's Internet Privacy whatever act from 1996 or 1994 or whatever it was. The project itself I believe is owned by Jon Rifkin. Perhaps we can clarify this, Jon? Licensing is most likely going to be an issue if/when this project gets any larger. I understand that the project is under the GPL, but I have not fully researched it, and will do so soon.

	The sidebar is on the right side for two reasons. Firstly, according to design principles studied by myself, a sidebar on the right side of the page does a better job of focusing the human eye on the center of the page, seeing as how the logo is on the left, and that the logo extends over the navigation bar and slightly into the body of the page (this overflow is on the left). To summarize, having the related links on the right side brings more balance to the page. Secondly, we all have to admit. The design of most pages on the internet are a top-bar, left-bar, right-body setup. Neither Lina nor myself felt that we wanted to continue that trend, which, from a graphic design point of view is not optimal. So to answer your question, yes it is possible, but I don't foresee it being done anytime soon. Nevertheless, if we get numerous complaints on the user-level from this, IE non developmental staff, then we will reconsider.

	We expended some effort in making the site larger than it really needed to be to fulfill several other graphic design principles. The first main one being that when people view a web page, over 99% of internet users do not actually see anything which requires them to use the scroll function on their browser (or, as graphic designers refer to it, below the 'fold'). The second main principle we tried to meet was conciseness. We tried to maintain most of the content in non-paragraph form (IE break it up with lots of headings) and provide links (which are, statistically, the most read text) that describe the link, rather than where the link is (you will see no 'click here' on the site). By tailoring the content to graphic design standards, rather than development standards, we aim to provide a site that is more easily navigated by all, including but not limited to developers.

	Thank you for your comments and suggestions.

I hope you all had a lovely christmas,
	Hasan Khalil

P.S. Lina will be on vacation until next monday, the 5th of January. If anyone would like me to bring up design principles or anything else with her, it'll have to wait until she's back. I apologize for the inconvenience.


May God shower His peace and blessings unto you.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Green <cm...@do...>
Date: Saturday, December 27, 2003 9:53 am
Subject: Re: [Ipaudit-devel] merry christmas and a happy new website

> Lina C Pezzella <Lin...@hu...> writes:
> 
> >
> > P.S.  If there's anything we missed, just email us back and we'll
> > get it up asap.
> 
> What are the copyright notices on the main page referring to?  The
> HTML itself?  Do you all actually own the copyright or does uconn?
> 
> Would it be possible to put the sidebar on the left side rather than
> the right?
> 
> It's also probably worthwhile to try and condense the number of pages
> that exist to include all the information there just not
> compartmentalized so heavily.
> 
> Looks fancy otherwise :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris
> -- 
> Chris Green <cm...@do...>
> Eschew obfuscation.
> 
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