[1019] in IS Home Pages
More feedback on IS web page design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Janet Littell)
Sun Feb 27 14:57:03 2000
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:00:48 -0500
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From: Janet Littell <jlittell@MIT.EDU>
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>Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:25:47 -0500
>To: Janet Littell <jlittell@mit.edu (Janet Littell)>,
> Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>
>From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Re: Windows 2000 Printing Documentation
>Cc: bushnell@mit.edu
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>Hi Janet,
>
>The ideal time frame would be sometime this week. Setting up printing is
>one of the biggest problems/difficulties that has been encountered during
>the testing and I would the Helpdesk to be able to refer people to a
>correct page rather than point them at the WLPR Spooler documentation which
>should not be used for Windows 2000. I understand if it takes longer.
>
>As for the blue/green boxes, I do not care for them. In the courses and
>seminars that I have taken on graphic design, space should be used to put
>content. White space is a good thing, but I feel that the blue/green boxes
>take away too much space from content and do not provide enough function to
>justify the space in some uses. This becomes especially true when a
>section fills more than one screen. For top level pages where you have
>less than 20 lines of text per section, they are ok. However when you get
>to a page where you have more than 20 lines of text in sections they become
>cumbersome.
>
>Good example of their use: <http://web.mit.edu/is/help/>
>Good example of their problem: <http://web.mit.edu/is/desktop/macsoft.html>
>see the software section
>
>I also do not like the effects from having everything in a table. If I
>copy and paste text to another applications, e.g., Eudora, then I get a lot
>of extra breaks and spaces that do not appear if I copy and paste text from
>a non table.
>
>I am imagining that the instructions for setting up a printer are going to
>be rather long and would make the blue/green boxes counter effective.
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan
>
>At 10:17 AM 2/27/2000 -0500, Janet Littell wrote:
>>Hi Jonathan,
>>Thanks for the screen shots. What is your ideal time frame for the page to
>>be posted?
>>
>>Just curious why we shouldn't use the blue/green boxes, since it's an IS
>>document? By the way, one medium range goal for the IS web page format is
>>to redesign the format, once the high level content of the pages,
>>especially the help pages, has stabilized.
>
