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Pastimes : SI Beta Site Launch - 7/01/99 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CatLady who wrote (28)	7/1/1999 10:16:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

What if they used different color bands across the page for each line? Nothing bright, but pale colors, like alternating tan and white lines? It would make it easier to follow across the page. That sounds good to me, I have the same complaint but boxes isn't really the answer I felt because boxes kind of look "character mode" (to me). And on that note, another thing about the subject page. Say you have a subject with a few new messages, am I correct in that you have to click on the little dinky number "2" there in order to read new messages on the thread? Can we make that a little easier - a button beside the number or something?

To: CatLady who wrote (28)	7/1/1999 11:12:00 PM
From: CatLady	Respond to of 2340

Color bands for the message summary appeared just as I typed in that last message. Now I'm wondering about using tan shading to separate the To/From/Msg.# header and the Next/Previous links from the body of the text, instead of the old-fashioned line boxes.

To: CatLady who wrote (28)	7/2/1999 9:26:00 AM
From: FreedomForAll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2340

<"2. The list of subjects in the subjectmarks list is much more difficult to read in the beta than in the old version. Perhaps its the boxes around the old version that helps readability, but again the lines are long and to get the data my eye has to follow along the line alllll the way across the page. The old version used multiple lines but the pertinent data was close together and easy to spot at a glance. " What if they used different color bands across the page for each line? Nothing bright, but pale colors, like alternating tan and white lines? It would make it easier to follow across the page.> The bands would help a little, but the display would not be as easy to read as the old SI display. The wider format is an unnecessary change that is less efficient than the old. I don't mind change (if I did I'd be reading the Wall Street Journal instead of SI) but I don't go for less efficiency. Freedom