Re: The Digital Speech Project

> Firstly, I don't like the grey navigation bar.  I know that it's a=20
> subjective opinion (aren't they all :o)  ), but it looks drab and=20
> uninspiring to me.  How about a colour similar to the blue that you=20
> use for the banner?


There's a banner graphic on that page that's meant to be there? Yikes! =
There is! And it's called BANNER!

Okay people... Obviously this is gonna irritate a lot of people, but =
it's not my doing... Thanks to the questionable and usually =
highly-annoying practices of web ads, the latest version of one of the =
best personal firewall products, ZONE ALARM PRO 3.0, has the ability to =
BLOCK ADS. One of the settings is to block ALL BANNER ads, which I of =
course enabled the second I found it could do it. I know I'm not the =
only person who will do this, either, or the feature would not have been =
introduced.

Now, I can't say that the way ZAP3 blocks ads is the smartest... I've =
now learned from TWO different sites on this list that it blocks ads =
based at least in part on the name of the image. This behaviour also =
blocked two benign images for these sites, simply because the image =
names included the name "banner" in them. This means that you gotta stop =
naming parts of your site's design graphics "banner." Period. Unless of =
course it serves no purpose to be there, in which case it probably =
shouldn't. ZAP3 was released just Monday, so these problems I'm seeing =
are likely only the tip of the iceburg as more and more people install =
it, find that feature and jump at the chance for getting rid of those =
pesky and amazingly stupid "punch the monkey" or "x10" ads. If by =
coincidence ZoneAlarm is blocking part of your site, then you either =
gotta change your site, or expect people to be wondering what the point =
of the GIANT BLANK SPOT in your site's design is for...

If you don't have ZAP3, download the trial (or buy it) -- =
www.zonealarm.com -- and see for yourself what it's adblocker is doing =
to your sites. You might be surprised. And shocked.

Good luck to all,
Kehvan M. Zydhek

BTW: I have nothing whatsoever to do with ZoneLabs/ZoneAlarm, other than =
just happen to be one of MILLIONS of users of it.

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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Rajnish Bhaskar" <r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk>
To: <jonathanjo(at)mindspring.com>
Cc: <hwg-critique(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 07:25
Subject: Re: The Digital Speech Project


> > http://www.yearinparadise.com/~jonathan
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> Firstly, I don't like the grey navigation bar.  I know that it's a=20
> subjective opinion (aren't they all :o)  ), but it looks drab and=20
> uninspiring to me.  How about a colour similar to the blue that you=20
> use for the banner?
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> Secondly, I just don't think that the monospace fonts work in the=20
> navbars, or, indeed the headings on the front page.  To me, monospace=20
> works well in code listings, but it seems 'wrong' for other things=20
> (again, a very subjective opinion).
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> You should get rid of the border around the logo in the top-left of=20
> the page (logo.png)
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> Finally, I'm reading this on a monitor with a large screen resolution=20
> (1600x1200).  You should consider restricting the size of your lines=20
> of text (about 70 or 80% of the page width is good) to make it easier=20
> to read on these large monitors.
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> This has been a bit of a negative review, but on the other hand, I=20
> liked the content -- this sort of site is important and the way that=20
> things are going, it seems like it will become more so in future.
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> I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 on Windows 2000 Pro with a 1600x1200 screen=20
> res over a LAN connection.
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> HTH,
> Raj.
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> Rajnish Bhaskar
> r.bhaskar(at)compserv.gla.ac.uk, http://lordofthemoon.com
> IT Education Unit, University of Glasgow
> http://www.iteu.gla.ac.uk/
> --
> Only buffoons refer to the Internet as the Information Superhighway.
>      -- (The Rough Guide to the Internet 1999)
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