Earlier this month, Andy McFadden wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 08:40:43AM -0400, Dr. David A. Zatz wrote:
>> Much of the Internet has become a triumph of style over content.
>> I think most of us regret the direction some sites have taken...
>
> I received the following in an automated e-mail message yesterday:
> -----
> An opinion has been added to your site at Hotrate.com:
[Hmm. Never heard of it.]
> I do not like the site design niether the site contents. Firstlym they
> are just FAQ and aer in an urorganized manner. The site is just listing
> of text with links.
> -----
>
> This is regarding the HTML version of the pages. Apparently HTML isn't
> enough -- if an FAQ doesn't have Shockwave movies with explosions,
> it's just not worth reading. :-)
I'd discount such comments rather heavily (i.e. pretty much
ignore them). I've been maintaining an undecorated, mostly
plain text, lightly HTMLized FAQ list for many years now, and
other than two suggestions that I create a "more professional"
(whatever that means) PDF version, I've received zero complaints
that my text wasn't pretty enough. (As Tom Neff was saying in
another message: "if someone today is tasked with answering a
question, and they do their research and unearth... a plain .txt
file [FAQ] sitting one someone's FTP or mail server... they will
get their answer very nicely, and AT NO TIME will the topic of
discussion turn to why it was in plain text, or whether it should
have been marked up with more weights, faces and sizes. Nobody
really cares about that stuff when they have real work to do.")
Make your FAQ list look nice if you want to, but definitely
don't obsess about it.
Steve Summit
scs@eskimo.com
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