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Re: The website is confusing!

For my part (and I speak for Chanthy too :-)) I think the Ozone and
Infozone websites are just....so beautiful!!! All my congratulations to
Gerd, he's a Killer :-) Last time when we looked at Infozone website,
we just spent a entire week end working on my website, and when we
looked at Infozone one, we suddenly found out that ours was so ugly :-)

About the functionnal design I found Ozone web very easy to navigate
throught. I think that's very rare to find open-source project with nice
looking website.

Last word: keep up the good work guys!

Regards,

Johann


----- Original Message -----
From: Falko Braeutigam <falko@softwarebuero.de>
To: burtonator <burton@relativity.yi.org>; <ozone-users@ozone-db.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: The website is confusing!


> On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, burtonator wrote:
> > Has this been brought up before.  I hate to sound rude... I am only
> > giving constructive criticism.
> No problem. Really. Keep it coming ;)
>
> >
> > The website is hard to use.  It is VERY confusing.  Why now:
> >
> > - just use 1 frame (stylebook?)
> > - remove the splash screen (http://www.ozone-db.org/index.html) or use
> > the same navigation structure as
> > (http://www.ozone-db.org/ozone_main.html).
> >
> > This would make things MUCH easier.  I have used it multiple times and
> > it is still confusing :(
> Hmmm... do you really think so? Anyway, the likings are different. Below a
> quote from a recent mail to webmaster@ozone-db.org:
>
> -------------------------------------
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered your website today.
>
> I really want to congratulate your for the design of your website. It's
> really great!
>
> Therefore I'm now conviced that we can do something easy to use and nice
> to see in the same time.
>
> Sincerely
> --
> Emmanuel (http://rajaweb.free.fr/)
> --------------------------------------
>
> In fact, personally I don't like splash screens too. (but ours looks so
great!
> ;) Anyway, I think Gerd, the guy who is making our designes (btw: he has
been
> done a lot of ozone code and much of the Infozone code too), doesn't want
to do
> functional-only things all the time. So, at least our .org sites are
> somewhat... you know ;)
>
> Seriously Kevin, we have a top navigation bar and a side navigation bar
and a
> content area - not that confusing I think. Yes, using frames is not always
a
> good idea but we wanted to try a design that can be used for static
> presentation as well as the front-end for some kind of information system
like
> Infozone/Prowler. At this time we didn't know the possibilities of Cocoon
> and so using frames produced the fastest solution. And, frames are the
only way
> to ensure a particular layout of the page. I just discussed this with
Conny, our
> Cocoon guy. In his opinion using Cocoon we should be able to do
ozone-db.org
> with and without frames from the same XML sources. Anyway, I don't see the
> need of putting that much work in a working solution. What do others think
> about ozone-db.org?
>
>
> Falko
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Falko Braeutigam                         mailto:falko@softwarebuero.de
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>