SOLAR site

Mark W. Manley (mwm3q@jm.acs.Virginia.EDU)
Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:27:32 -0500

I liked the introduction page to the SOLaR page. By giving the
user a choice between a graphics-oriented and a text-oriented
page, you have allowed not only people with slow modems to use
the page effectively, but for people with non-graphical browsers
such as lynx. This is a good idea since I think that most VA-PEN
users will be using the lynx interface since (as of three years
ago when I was on PEN) it only supported a text interface. The
graphic is nice as well as the logo.

The only bad thing that I saw involved the structuring of the
graphics page for the math. You had links every which way,
probably as the result of the site being under construction. I
did like the sun graphic at the top of the page, however, as well
as the graphic of the math equation. BTW, my vote is for the
graphic on the top of the math page. I especially dig the groovy
form page. :-) Oh, I didn't notice this before 'cause Netscape
crashed on jefferson just now, but the graphic doesn't completely
change over from 2+2=5 to 2+2=4. You may want to look into
that...

Except for the sporadically spread out links on the graphics
page, it's looking pretty good! I'll try to finish your script
this weekend. I finally heard back from the guy I wrote about
scripting this morning, so that's why I'm so behind...

MM