General Statement of Intent


Ease of usage issues

By the time that you have gotten to this essay, you will have realized that these pages have a very sparse look to them. No frames, few images, no clickable image maps. All the text is black and white, and there are no cool backgrounds anywhere. There is a reason for this.

There are three things that I rate my pages on. Legibility, content, and looks. Legibility is most important, content less so, and looks come third. Anything that interferes with legibility, even if it improves the quantity of content, or looks really cool, will be excised. That is why my pages don't have odd colored text, or cool background images. Both of those things improve the looks of the text, but compromise the legibility. Frames do the same thing, as they unavoidably force the viewer to see things in a smaller frame. Clickable image maps are an incredible annoyance, especially for people using LYNX (which I shall do my best to support on these pages). These and similar things shall not appear here.

Content Issues

In terms of links, I only want to put annotated, organized links to places with at least some content, that I can confirm are working. Despite my orgional plans, I don't have quite as much time to play with my pages during the year as I might like, and while I might concieviably get to a real overhaul of the links over the summer, I also might not. Pages will get dropped if they stay down for long enough, but it'll take considerably longer to add more links.

Finally, just to be clear about one last thing, this is the only place on my pages where other people's material shall go (aside from the links page, but there the organization and annotations shall be mine alone). I have little space, and a lot to say, so if you have something cool to add, get your own page.

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