Pyreite wrote:
... not only look good but function well most of the time without serious technical hitches. Like Dokuga which in my opinion is a very 'Professional Website' even if it is for non-commercial usage. Plus it has an easy to understand format, is familiar, and easy to navigate, and use. Another bonus.
My compliments to our Admins for continuing to do a wonderful job.
*ponder*
Thanks for saying this kludge is ... professional? I guess it does, most the time, do what it's supposed to without having to beat it with a rubber chicken and threatening more ... dire consequences, if it doesn't work.
see03:
(Err... rambling and such... yeah.)
For the most part, I have to agree with Pyreite on the 'Professional Website' thing. I mean, technically,
this site is "Professional", and it's a hack. Really, what was I thinking making *all* the pages be loaded from a single index.php page. Doesn't really help much when tracing logs for page hits since *technically* I could use a form and POST through out the site and get the same effect since my index.php will handle both POST and GET for what it does. Seriously, using PATH_INFO would have been better but ... Mehh.
The only "fun" thing, is the multiple CSS styles you can select, but that was mostly just done as an example for Instructors/Students on different CSS layouts with the same HTML source (Yeah, doesn't change much, but enough that a difference could be noticed).
I would actually some what consider my
web skeleton structure more "professional" in some ways than the main site. Having the abs sized menu block, and the left margin on inner blocks does screw with the dynamic resizing but... that's overall minor.
I
personally prefer the simple, text sites. But now days most everyday users don't see them as "good" if you can't interact with them (drop downs, drag-able items, a mash-up of different "social" crap, etc... (basically what they call all the Web 2.0 crap that they've been doing since Web 1.0, but didn't have the fancy ajax term defined)).
I mean, when a site is built with 90% javascript, and everything is done from iframes, and generated DOM structure, then it's pretty much worthless for anything. I've seen sites where the HTML that's downloaded boils down to:
| Code: |
<html>
<head>
<title>Loading....</title>
</head
<body></body>
</html>
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So, if you don't have JavaScript enabled you're screwed ... no viewing the site for you! It gets even worse on *Business* sites that have this.
Many screen readers (blind folks) don't parse JavaScript, and then even when they do, by using CSS and DOM manipulation, you're messing the structure up since most people ignore the tags for the screen readers to move around a site. That isn't professional, it's just cutting out possible customers, and depending on your business, opening yourself to law suites (Many online educational sites are really bad about this :/ ).
Dokuga is "okay" in this regard, at least the main page does degrade decently to text only. I use 'lynx' for the majority of my testing ... no JavaScript; If I want to test some basic JavaScript I use the program 'links' (it also has basic frame support).
Err... yeah. So, what was I saying. Ohh! Yes, the term 'Professional Website' is a marketing term, and that's it. Basically the same thing as SEO crap. If the
content itself is worth anything, then even if the "site" is just a link of text files and summaries, it'd be better than many out there.
It's the content that really matters. Everything else is just decoration. Or something.
-J
