Re: New MCF pages

"Steve Lhomme" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hi,
> Here are my comments on the new MCF website available at
> http://mcf.sourceforge.net/newpage/

Hehehe, maybe a bit late, but we try to listen to 'the masters voice'
wherever possible  :-)

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

mf ? feasible ? recommended ?

> - 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 :)

Yup, i like mf's idea very much to include the sf logo into the page main
design. I know he has been searching for a specific version of the logo for
some reason, he might be able to explain better ....

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

Sorry for my stupid question, but what is the reason to do that ?

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

We had a few people browsing the pages with Mozilla and all were happy, so
we should be fine i guess.

> - 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 :

The decision to make standard design available in a php script was done by
mf and myself, and i fully back it up. The main reason to do this was to be
able to update the content easily, without having to change the whole page
all the time, especially with respect to updating content from CVS one day.
After all the work that has been invested from mf and hikke to get it up
this way i dont recomment to change it now.

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

There is a simple solution to that i guess, we should setup a normal HTML
page also containing all the important expressions surrounding MCF, and then
link from this page to the other ( dynamic ) pages .

> * 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).

I thought its easier to update the content once its done ?

> * 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).

We decided to use php for this and i hope you can live with that.

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

Shame on you :-) !!!!

I suggest i try hard now to provide mf with the missing content pages ( Crew
, Credits, etc. ), we try to link to Lasse's existing Technical pages for
the time being ( specs need to be updated completely in any case i guess )
and put the whole thing online.

Best regards

Christian






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