[TenTec] Ten-Tec Website

[Wes Attaway (N5WA)]

I just checked the page in question and it looks fine here, exactly the same
on both IE6 and Firefox.

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Grant Youngman
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:42 PM
To: 'Webmaster'; tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec Website


Hmmm ...

I probably spoke too soon.  Even at 1024x768 some pages don't work, I
suppose because of the style sheet and tables issue.

This isn't a dis ... But ... Especially for a commercial site, it ought to
work perfectly on the most used browser platform .. You can call it lowest
common denominator, and blame the browser, but that doesn't help the
appearance of the page(s).  Committee standards and what users have in their
hands are almost always out of time sync.  Some users may appreciate
adherence to documented standards.  Most just want it to look right on the
platform they use every day.  For example, even at 1024x768, the page
http://radio.tentec.com/Amateur/Transceivers/TT565  displays incorrectly on
IE, pushing the left hand search window and links to the bottom of the page.
To the average user who could care less what standards are or are not
supported, it will just look like someone screwed up the web page design.

Just a suggestion for perhaps the next rev level, even though you didn't
really ask.  Hey, T-T fans constantly want to out engineer the design
engineers, and that just extends to everything :-)

Grant/NQ5T



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grant Youngman [mailto:nq5t at comcast.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 11:23 PM
> To: 'Webmaster'; 'tentec at contesting.com'
> Subject: RE: RE: Ten-Tec Website
>
> > comes to standards. For example is the error you see on the
> site in IE
> > where the left menu and the content overlap is that the site use
> > Cascade Style Sheets to control the layout of the site, and
> IE dosen't
> > fully support CSS (Cascade Style
> > Sheets) yet so it puts Tables a Priority.
>
> > Sorry if this upsets you in anyway.
> >
> > Thank You,
> > Ten-Tec Web Team
>
> I'm not really upset at all.
>
> And mostly retract my rant, having finally seen the
> recommendation for 1024x728 resolution.  The site looked
> really ugly -- almost childish, based on the errors in its
> display appearance -- on the system at the office I was using
> today, but the machines there are stuck at 800x600 by office
> policy.  That turned out to be the primary "stupid factor" in
> the whole thing :-)
>
> On a 1024x786 display it looks fine.
>
> Overall, it's a great improvement, and looks good as long the
> resolution is right.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
>
>


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