Page 6 Diablo Blue August, 2001
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Fun and Games (not!) with Microsoft Publisher... |
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I looked at the content of each of the page files. They were filled with XML constructs, Cascading Style Sheets, and other marvelous bleeding-edge state-of-the-art features. None of which are needed for the Web version of Diablo Blue. And which would make it unreadable by anyone who uses an old browser. The graphics files were a real puzzle. Many were present in two versions (GIF and either PNG or JPG), and many were graphic versions of the HTML page files and graphic versions of individual articles -- where were these supposed to be used?
I opened the first page in my browser, and discovered that the pages weren't even rendered correctly! The masthead included extraneous graphic elements. Alan's President's Corner article had text overlaying other text, making parts of it unreadable. Some articles had the last sentence (or two or three) cut off. Some articles were placed as graphic images instead of text, increasing the size of the page by tens of thousands of bytes, and any links in articles placed as graphics were displayed without the link -- which would be expected since they were not being placed as text. The links to the first, prior, and next pages were all missing, complicating navigation.
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