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Subject: Re: http://prescottcomputerguy.org?ed
From: Snit <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:45:44 -0700
Newsgroups: 24hoursupport.helpdesk

"why?" <fgrirp*sgc@VAINY!Qznq.fpvragvfg.pbz> stated in post
q6o394hnsp4lrka0nrk4dp4rc268g3u8nq@xxxxxxx on 7/31/08 9:17 AM:

> 
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Snit wrote:
> 
>> "William Poaster" <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
>> pan.2008.07.30.18.09.00.406807@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 7/30/08 11:09 AM:
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Why have the ?ed at the end of my URL?  I do not get why you and Steve
> 
> Why indead, it's so you can put in a trace for 24HSHD users looking at
> your site.
> 
> You seem to have missed it's in the subject and body of the post you
> started the thread with.

I did not start the thread.

>> Carroll add that.  It shows up in my logs when someone comes from your
> 
> They didn't add it..... not that it helps any.

I am at a loss as to his reasoning... but he is not rational.

>> links... is that the idea?  So I will know when someone found my page from
>> your derogatory comments... from people I have *no* business dealings with
>> and have never even met face to face or even emailed...  just weird.
> 
> At least you got 1 thing right,
> This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional!
> although using XHTML and Trans for no reason at all, more so as it is
> served out as text/html.

Why not Transitional XHTML?  Personally I like the "clean" look of having
every tag closed.  Others prefer HTML.  Either works fine.

> You still have to work on the colors, the little red hotspot (blue in
> MSIE) to the right of the banner,
> http://www.statcounter.com/free_hit_counter.html

Hotspot?  What?  There is no hotspot there... and nothing visible in IE,
Firefox, or Safari:
<http://browsershots.org/http://prescottcomputerguy.org/>
> 
> Oh and,
> 
> First Impressions
> I have read that on average a user spends four seconds looking at a site
> before deciding if it is worth their time.
> 
> Try 2, in this case font / colors yuck.

I have read four... but I am sure other studies / reviews have had different
conclusions.

As far as the font and color choice, your "yuck" is hardly descriptive...
other than to show your own personal dislike.
> 
> Worst of all the font size bug in MSIE, you prevent all users of that
> browser from altering the font size from View, and after the XHTML as
> well, a big letdown.

I might switch to a different font sizing metric to correct that - I knew it
existed in IE 6 but was surprised to see now it was in IE 7 still.  I
thought they had fixed that.  Reasonable thing to note as a weakness,
especially since many of my clients are older and might not have good
vision.

> Still doesn't make up for
> W3C CSS Validator results for
> http://prescottcomputerguy.org/pcg/assets/CSS/screen.css (CSS level 2.1)
> Congratulations! No Error Found.
> The 12 warnings are acceptable.
> 
> Not using some CSS shortcuts.
> 
> Repeating lots of stuff in the various img

Repeating stuff... what do you mean?  The two images - one for the screen
one for printing?


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"If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
-  Anatole France 




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