general comments

John Unsworth (jmu2m@virginia.edu)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:53:09 -0500 (EST)

A couple of general comments, after browsing through the three sites:

First, you've all done a huge amount of work, and it looks great.

Second, if you know that certain links will not have anything behind
them, I'd recommend commenting them out before you finish the site.
for example: <!--a href="nonexistent.html"-->some link<!--/a-->.

Third, I see some variation in background--on the VFH site, it may be
intentional, I don't know. On the Solar site, the text-only pages
vary between a plain gray background and a white one.

Finally, VFH: the way you're handling captions for images...we can talk
about this when we get together later today, but there are basically two
strategies: you can put images in tables (yuck) or you can put them in
a page-space by themselves, with the caption underneath or beside, instead
of trying to have paragraphs wrap around them and also have captions. If
you do the latter (my recommendation), you would do something like:
<p>
<img src="some.gif"><br clear=left>
<b>this is the caption</b>
<p>

...and without the br clear=left, of course, the caption would align to
the right of the image instead of underneath it.

Banners, backgrounds, and graphics generally look great, and I think
all three sites exhibit an excellent sense of the organizations they
represent. Well done, well done.

John Unsworth
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