Saturday, February 12, 2000
Left side, right side, where do you want the couch?
So for those of you following at home, I'm playing around a bit with the layout here. There is this layout you are looking at right now.
This page has a navigation bar along the right side, pointing to the individual links for the past seven days (none of the links work by the way. It's using a URL scheme that I'm planning on using but isn't functional yet). I did it this way for users of Lynx—it lays out tables that go left to right top to bottom; not the best way to support tables, but hey, it tries. And I felt that innundating a Lynx user with a list of links is bad. Better to bring the content first then a list of (possibly) useless links.
But I did this page, and under Lynx it actually isn't too bad. The first link is to the content (if in fact, the link works). And at the default 80x24 TTY screen size, there's only two, maybe three screens full of links before you get to the content. Oddly enough, I like it.
So, what do you think, oh home audience?
“Next on Yahoo—Websites about narconecrophilaphobia!”
I finally figured out what web portals are—portals are to the web what networks are to television; they want to control what you see and would rather you didn't change the channel.
It's a weak analogy, but I think it's a good one.
(The title for this section if the fear of falling asleep and having sex with zombies, if you must know)
