P&P: RE: Commnet on web site

["West, Matthew R SITI-ITPSIE" <matthew.west@shell.com>]

Dear Jim, 

See responses below.


Matthew West
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim.s3@juno.com [mailto:jim.s3@juno.com]
> Sent: 31 December 2003 15:47
> To: suo-policies@ieee.org
> Subject: P&P: Commnet on web site
> 
> 
> 
> Matthew,
> 
> 1. I suggest we quickly move forward on administrative and 
> format changes
> and address any controvertial issues, one by one, after that. 
>  We should
> post a draft version to the SUO list to see if there are any 
> objections,
> then post it to the SUO URL.  This should be possible within 
> weeks, but
> some issues could take months. 

MW: I will do that next.
> 
> 2. The Lattice of Theories should be listed with no greater 
> emphasis than
> any other starter document.  There may or may not be consensus that it
> should be our focus, but there has been no such vote on the 
> matter, so we
> can't give it preference on the web site.

MW: I believe I have addressed that in the latest version. If you
disagree I think we need to ask the membership if the emphasis is
right or not.
> 
> 3. I feel, as SUO Chair, that changing the name 'Started Document' is
> something we would need to bring to the whole SUO group. I 
> also suggest
> it is not worth the extended effort it will take.    

MW: I agree that we should bring it to the whole group, and I believe
it is worth the effort, so I will do this. It is worth making the
effort to move forward.
> 
> 4. In left margin:
>         a. The 'Contributions' duplicates what you have 
> inserted in main
> body, so I think you can remove it from the margin.

MW: The convention I am following is that the margin menu is the
same on all pages and allows immediate navigation around the site.
They are repeated in the body of the page to give an immediate link.
This is best practice in web design.

>         b. In my browser, a two-line link looks like two 
> separate links.

MW: In my browser the only time the links go onto two lines is when
they are for the current page and in bold. I thought that was
sufficiently obvious not to be a concern. If you get something different
this is unintended (the margin is supposed to be fixed width, so it
should not be a problem, though you may have your browser set up to
have larger size text than mine).

MW: If you use IE you can go to View, Text Size and see your current
setting. If you set it to medium you should get rid of the problem.
Equally, there is nothing I can do to stop people using a different size.
So this is always a potential problem.
 
> Perhaps you can make these a small font to fit most of them 
> on one line. 
> 
> 5. You should probably list the Chair name and adress on the 
> home page.

MW: Happy to do so.
> 
> Jim
>  
> 
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