[COLUG] Ubuntu / Firefox / Web Design

[Tom Hanlon]

On 9 Apr 2007, at 11:55, Paul Williams wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:52 -0400, Mark Erbaugh wrote:
>> I have volunteered to help my church with their website, but I am  
>> not a
>> professional website designer. I am working with another volunteer  
>> who
>> is somewhat familiar with Microsoft Front Page.  The website is  
>> just a
>> tool to provide information and consists of a bunch of static HTML
>> pages.
>>
> Drupal would be much easier for the church people to use than  
> FrontPage,
> I think.



May I suggest a simple announcements page and then PDF's of the  
Calendar and the Newsletter.

I am a big fan of keeping folks in there comfort zones. I imagine  
they are using an old version of publisher ? Is that the case ( * I  
can not believe I am saying this *) perhaps the newer versions of  
publisher behave better. Or perhaps there is a styles option in the  
export.

Of course you could look at your webserver log files, and if you have  
extended logging on and you can see the browsers.. You may find out  
that you and your Mozilla and Ubuntu are perhaps not a significant  
proportion of your audience (I can not believe I am saying that  
either... I must be old and lazy..)

Of course all of your hits to the website will skew the results.

PDF's are a representation of Print, they are supported in some way  
by most systems.

--
Tom