New MCF pages

Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Sep 2002 15:33:48 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mcf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

Here are my comments on the new MCF website available at 
http://mcf.sourceforge.net/newpage/

- in images (http://mcf.sourceforge.net/newpage/images/) I see some GIF 
images. I suggest that we replace them with PNG images.

- the Sourceforge logo is supposed to be 
http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=47402 . There are also 
different versions of the logo and I suggest using this guideline :
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=790&group_id=1
It's a simple and good way to thank SourceForge for the hosting :)

- place some title and/or alt text informations when you includes images 
  on a web page

- test the pages in lynx (or links) to make sure all valuable 
informations are available.

- I see that all the pages have URLs like 
http://mcf.sourceforge.net/newpage/?content=Project Page (notice the 
blank space in the URL :( ) . This is not acceptable for various reasons :

* many search engines don't collect informations on dynamic pages. And 
we definitely want to be searchable in a good way

* using one page for a whole site (index.php ?) can look sexy from a 
coders point of view. But it's a hell to maintain (especially for people 
using Dreamweaver or who don't know PHP).

* there is no need for dynamic content on most of this pages. This would 
be MUCH easier to use simple static (X)HTML in this case. Design 
consistency can be enforced with CSS Stylesheets and maybe SSI includes 
(don't know if Sourceforge support that).


The rest seem to be OK (section selection for ex). I still haven't read 
the front page.





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