[Newspoetry] site design

[Joe Futrelle]

To All of Our Valued "internal customers":

Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.  We will be
splitting the site into two sites, www.tinynewspoetry.edu which will
be optimized for Lynx and www.bighonkingnewspoetry.mil which will be
optimized for F-16 head-up displays and the CAVE.

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:21:58PM -0400, Dirk Stratton wrote:
> Joe--
> 
> I hate to complain, b/c I know how much time you've put into this site,
> giving it all sorts of super thing-a-ma-gigs and hyper wingdings and
> such, but one change you've made does not seem to be in the best
> interest of readerly comfort. On my screen, the two halves of the site
> appear to be about equal. Making the calender bigger has made the poetry
> space smaller which causes weird line breaks sometimes (the most recent
> example is today's hypersonnet; Wm's sonnet about work also suffers:
> it's 16 lines long on my screen, and had I not known what it had looked
> like before I wouldn't have known it wasn't supposed to be 16 lines
> long). Occasionally with really long lines, the sideways scrolling has
> to come into play, which makes things difficult to read (I realize that
> this wouldn't be completely avoidable even with a wider space, but the
> frequency of such occurences would be reduced).
> Anyway, just one reader's vote for a smaller calender and a larger space
> for the poems. Thanks for all your work. Now I'm sort of glad that Wm
> guy was deposed. Did you realize he is a founding member of that
> Satanist Drug Cult known as the Unknown? Gives me the shivers just
> thinking about it.
> 
> --Dirk
> 
> 
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