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Re: The website is confusing!



On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, burtonator wrote:
> Falko Braeutigam wrote:
> <snipo> 
> > 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?
> 
> Honestly.. you can keep your splash screen and just go with a different
> navigation.  Just put the Splash screen in your center frame of the site
> and your are set.  See what I am saying?  This will make it a LOT less
> confusing.
Yes, I see what you are saying. However, if you don't like the splash, why just
don't you bookmark the main page?

Anyway, we like to make such totally confusing (?), bandwith wasting (!) stuff
but we are not crazy about that. I will remove the splash if more people
complain about it.


Falko
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