<VV> Re: CORSA website / Need to scroll?

[John Kepler]

And they should also have to work with older equipment and programs, like
most of us do. 


You always manage to prove that you're one of those people that thinks
digital watches are "high-tech".  Old equipment is just that, and "catering"
to your pathology is counter-productive


What the techies forget is that the majority of the public
doesn't have or can't afford to have the latest bells-and-whistles programs
and hardware.

BS and other appropriate expletives.  Not only not germane....not true
either!


 They then callously ignore the greater public in designing
things. They also think only teen and twenty-somethings use the stuff.

I'm a "50-somethingt"....my Dad is an "80-something", and neither one of us
has any problem with owning capable hardware and current software!  What IS
your major makfunction?

As I said before, the entire idea of a website is to impart information.
And if you make it so that the thing is hard to use, difficult to read,
annoying, or just a plain PITA, you'll fail in your main mission. You then
have sacrificed your audience for your ego.

And a web-site designed with some geriatric kludge in mind won't work well
enough to be anything BUT a cranky, unreliable, VERY expensive PITA!  If you
have trouble running it on a slow dial-up, that's YOUR problem, and you are,
frankly, an ignorable minority.

John

-Mark


> [Original Message]
> From: Frank DuVal <corvairduval at cox.net>
> Subject: Re: <VV> Re: CORSA website /   Need to scroll?
>
> OK, you will get old also and need some help with larger font, just 
> wait.....
>
> In this house we have the computers set for the minimum resolution the 
> programs will allow. This one is 800 x 600 and 19" LCD. This allows me 
> to read e-mail and most web sites from a comfortable chair position with 
> my bifocals, looking through the top portion. I hate laptops because I 
> usually get a crick in the neck trying to read the screen....As the 
> screen is the same distance as the keyboard from my body. This is too 
> close for top lense viewing, so I have to tilt the neck to use the lower 
> lenses....
>
> Web site designers should be 50 + years old to see what the rest of the 
> world sees!
>
> Frank
>
>
>
> Matt Nall wrote:
>
> > Mark,  that is on YOUR END!!   not CORSAS!!
> >
> > Screen resolution... set to 1024 x 768  and you'll never have a 
> > problem...!
> >
> > Don't know how??  go to   www.computorsfordummies.com    ggggggg
> >
> >
> > Matt Nall
> > All Vairs!
> > http://members.aol.com/patiomatt
> > Lots of Corvair Technical info!
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Corbin" <airvair at earthlink.net>
> >
> >> Oh, BTW, can we POSSIBLY narrow down the page width a smidgen, so that
I
> >> don't have to (left-right) scroll to the center? Just a little shave
off
> >> either side would do the trick, thank you very much.
> >


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