[ZWeb] Documentation Index

[Andrew Sawyers]

Martijn,
I'll agree with you on several points; noted herein
Martijn Pieters wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:13:22AM -0500, Andrew Sawyers wrote:
> 
>> The new documentation index has been made live.
> 
> 
> Cool, it is very informative, once you puzzle out the contents..
The document status puzzled me for awhile until it was explained to me 
what it was there for.
IMHO, the status doesn't belong on this page; people are viewing this 
for accessing documentation and not only does the status make the page 
confusing, it cluters up the display.
I was thinking that maybe there should be another place (like on the 
documents themselves) where the status of the project could be displayed.

> 
> The format is somewhat confusing; there is hardly any linespace between the
> status of one item, and the listing of the next item. The effect is
> slightly stronger in IE, but also present in Netscape.
> 
> An ASCII illustration (use fixed size font):
I wanted to use a fixed size font (I prefer 8pt, but I was told to use 
my browser to control the font size so we didn't force anything upon users).


> 
> Note that the 'Status: Incomplete' line for example, seems to belong to
> the Installation How-Tos.
> 
> With a better table design and maybe some color coding (greenish for
> complete, redlike for incomplete?) this could be made much clearer. Also
> look into playing with font-sizes and italics.
Thanks,
Andrew