Re: [boost] New home page: please comment

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-02 15:00:29

At 02:25 PM 11/2/2001, Ed Brey wrote:

 >Nice improvement.  Here are my suggestions to make it even better:
 >
 >- Replace the nested tables with a single table just for the link box, 
and
 >set the link box to float on the right.  This will allow the page text to 
go
 >under the box, which provides more of a publishing-quality appearance.
 >Finally, add
 >'style="margin: 1em"' to the table tag for breathing room.
 >
 >- Put each section of the link box in its own paragraph.
 >
 >- Replace the '--'s with spaces.  A simple search and replace of '--' 
with
 >'  ' will do it.  (Except, don't replace the webbot '--'s at 
the
 >end of the document.)
 >
 >- Remove the new-line hack regarding "members-only" (little could be more 

 >against the spirit of HTML).  Also, it shouldn't be hyphenated.
 >
 >- Change 'site-related' to 'web site-related'.
 >
 >Attached is your page with the above changes made for concrete reference.

I like it!

Some of the comments from Jeff Garland and Jon Kalb also apply to your 
design, so I'll try to integrate them in too.

Thanks,

--Beman