To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (22384 ) 4/30/2005 8:35:23 PM From: marcos Read Replies (1) | Respond to '2560 x 1600 pixels', wow, that seems a lot, those will be the standard pixels too, not the smaller and cheaper japanese ones, so they could really get crowded coming up the pipe at me, and it's not a big pipe here, long way up this mountain, pages load slow already, i'll have plenty of time to grow the barley to make my own beer ... there are altogether too much graphics on this net, they're all pointless imho, if i wanted fine art i'd go to the pub and look at the stuff people hang up there ... there's an idea ... but, not to knock what you do, which is pretty good, saw quite a few of your sites going way back now, your style is unobtrusive, tasteful, doesn't distract from the essential message which is mostly if not always in the text, and you do good layout, seem to anticipate what the lurker will want to see next ... many don't do that, latino sites are the worst offenders, page takes forever to load, it's almost up and you can see it's just garish nonsense and if these people have info they hide it elsewhere, then when it's got two per cent left to load the page freezes your frickin browser, puta madre me cae gordo ... Apple i might consider, an old newspaper editor friend swears by it, uses nothing else, but then he's after the graphics mostly, isn't he ... there ya go, hmmm .... whatever it is it has to be intuitive to the illiterate - EC of the resource ghetto swears by Linux, which seemed a great way to go until finding out you'd have to actually read some manual and learn tricks ... way i learned this here was, some nice lady in an internet cafe spent maybe five minutes with me, then i bought one, got to SI and asked a few questions, picked up tricks in the general course, and on Jeff's test your html thread .... 'user-friendly' was the word, for what stuff has got to be ... but a machine that will do graphics well, will do charts, there is that .... being stuck with dial-up and no practical alternative in these woods though, no point in buying a fancy sports car and running it on a cowpath .... cheers
