Theos-Talk Archives (April 2004 Message tt00289)

Hi Morten,

Your moon is in virgin? Or may be you are born under this sign? 
Interesting how you repair in so many details. Anyways I am building 
the web site of the Theosophical Society in Greece and my main 
problem was to find a design that would be easy to navigate. I am 
not an expert in web sites as you seem to be, but I found very 
practical and neat the new way Daniel have organized the site now. 
By the way anybody willing to type texts in Greek? I am really 
having a hard time with that, here in the T.S. in Greece there is 
not one active member that has typing abilities and the whole work 
remained to me.

Erica Letzerich



Your moon is in virgo? Or may be you are born under this sign 


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Morten Nymann Olesen" <global-
theosophy@a...> wrote:
> Hallo Daniel and all,
> 
> My views are:
> 
> I now I am boring. (smile...)
> I got provocated.
> But being a webmaster and all, I cannot be so
> sweet as others have been about your new website.
> 
> Please: I offer the following as a help.
> Maybe I should mail you in private, - but let us have it all out 
in the
> open - right ?
> 
> 
> Pros.
> 1. Apart from me having certain disagreements in the written 
content, - I
> think it is one of the best (if not the best so far) overall 
sources the
> Internet have about Theosophy in general. (You can be happy about 
that and
> take your shoes on and have a few --- circlings around the block. 
Smile.)
> And this is quite important.
> 
> 2.Your website has improved on navigation. And that is a vital 
issue.
> 
> 
> Cons.
> 
> There is a rule within webdesign: You can't please everyone...
(smile).
> 
> 
> 1. But being a webmaster I cannot just sit and watch a
> shall we say 'solid' theosophist use Frames on his website.
> It is (to me) a 'gray' kind of ugliness, which are not really 
suited to
> the altruistic promotion of theosophy. And most important: It 
doesn't favour
> Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
> Better use Iframes than Frames if you ask me. And even better no 
frames or
> iframes at all. - Well if possible, because sometimes it is not.
> 
> 2.And please do make those logo's better - they look like 
something wrongly
> melted from Dali's painting of the Watches.
> It reminds me of his "The Persistence of Memory" from 1931.
> 
> 3.Your "drop-down" menu can be made better, so the mouse much 
easier
> can hit the square - so to speak. I know because I have made some 
myself.
> (Aaah, that reminds me of what my own website lacks in content. 
Yes, I
> know - I am lazy about changing it.)
> 
> 4. Your sort of akward use of colors through out the website by 
the use of
> frames - could be reconsidered.
> And - yet, the "akwardness" makes it perhaps very good indeed -
> theosophically speaking.
> I do think though it is not good as it is now.
> What about color blindness - and statistics ?
> 
> 5. A much much clearer - statement - if you like about what the 
differences
> between
> your "Blavatsky Archives" and "Blavatsky Study Center" is would be 
helpful
> to the visitors.
> I talk about the following page:
> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm
> 
> 6. A much much clearer - statement or graphical presentation if 
you like, on
> what is your Own doing and what is others - would be a great thing.
> I talk about the following page:
> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm
> 
> 7. The link "about Daniel Caldwell" should instead have a short 
profile
> about who you are - and
> then a link to the email or perhaps even an address. It is better.
> 
> 8. A much clearer statement on what "Blavatsky Study Center" is at 
the
> following page would be good.
> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/
> The same on the Theosophical Academy
> http://www.theosophicalacademy.iinet.net.au/
> 
> 9. Adding a menu to on the left at 
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/
> would be an improvement.
> 
> 10. It indeed impresses me, that you are not using Cascading Style 
Sheets
> (CSS) as a seprate file.
> It must be tough task keeping all these different typopgraphic 
styles in
> check. But ESP is of course always helpful.
> CSS is much more handy if one is doing it manually and if some 
manual
> helpers from time to time are
> posting some of your pages.
> 
> 11. People on slow Internet connections - gets for some odd reason 
very
> impatient if they have to wait too long for a page to load.
> Also students of theosophy has this - quite interesting flaw in 
their aura.
> So try to keep each page on a maximum of 30-50 kb in size; - text, 
photo's,
> flash and perhaps javascript included.
> This is just a rule of the thumb.
> 
> ...I could offer much more ideas to improve your website. Just ask 
me and I
> will give it a through investigation for free...
> 
> 
> The website guru's and other sources of inspiration >:-):
> a) Jacob Nielsen is one whom you could be inspired from when making
> user-friendly websites: http://www.useit.com/
> His book "Hompage Usability" is still one of the most sold on this 
issue.
> (He has also been working together with the Macromedia Flash 
crew.)
> ------- His top teen mistakes on webdesign are wellknown:
> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html -------
> Not all what he says is true all the time. For instance some 
Theosophists do
> like - long scrolling pages. A think I know a few at Theos-Talk 
who does.
> (smile...)
> b) Another version is Vincent Flanders: 
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/ (A
> funny fellow.)
> c) A third place for inspiration is:
> http://webreference.com/authoring/design/usability/
> d) A western portal: http://www.tracecenter.org/world/web/
> e) World Wide Web Consortium: http://www.w3.org/
> f) And there are of course much more...
> 
> There is a rule within webdesign: You can't please everyone...
(smile).
> 
> 
> And Some spiritually minded do make their websites entirely 
different with
> long scrolling pages just to annoy those with slow connections
> and few money. Some of them I would even call Heretical - 
(smile...).
> 
> 
> I know, that my own website could be improoved, so who am I to 
tell anyone
> about webdesign.
> 
> 
> Did this help ?
> 
> from
> M. Sufilight with peace and love...
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "christinaleestemaker" <christinaleestemaker@y...>
> To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:18 PM
> Subject: Theos-World Re: H.P. Blavatsky, the Mahatmas & Theosophy: 
Selected
> Websites & Other Resources
> 
> 
> > -Hi Daniel,
> > Correct and wonderfull sightseeing at ounce.
> > Easy to find lectures
> > With compliments of
> > Christina
> >
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> > -- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell"
> > <danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> > > I have totally redone the following webpage.
> > >
> > > I hope that many readers will find it of some
> > > use and value. Feedback appreciated.
> > >
> > > "Selected Websites & Other Resources
> > > on H.P. Blavatsky, the Mahatmas & Theosophy"
> > >
> > > See:
> > >
> > > http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/hpblinks.htm
> > >
> > > or
> > >
> > > http://www.theosophy.info/hpblinks.htm
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > > http://hpb.cc
> > > http://theosophy.info
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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