Re: The website is confusing!

[Falko Braeutigam <falko@softwarebuero.de>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Johann Romefort wrote:
> 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!
Johann, I hope, this is the last word for this e-mail only! ;)

Thanks for the message. Next time please don't sing Gerd's praises that high.
Right after reading your e-mail he just quited his work and went home... ;)

Seriously, thanks Johann.


Falko

> 
> 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
> > --
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> >
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