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Re: [faq-maintainers] Re: What format?

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From: Jennifer & Joseph Lazio (jlazio@patriot.net)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 19:33:12 CDT


Steve Summit wrote:
>
> 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'd discount [disparaging] comments [about the lack of a "pretty"
> site] 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" (...) PDF version, I've received
> zero complaints that my text wasn't pretty enough.

I'll second this notion. I received a couple of *compliments* from
blind people regarding how accessible the information in my FAQ is.
The primary purpose of an FAQ is to answer questions, not to win
fashion awards.

-- Joseph

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Joseph & Jennifer Lazio            jlazio@patriot.net
http://www.patriot.net/users/jlazio/
sci.astro FAQ at http://sciastro.astronomy.net/

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