Re: [PLUG] PLUG Website Maintenence

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 11:11 pm, jeff wrote:
> Are there reliable stats on text-based browser use?  I'd consider
> redoing my site if the traffic warranted it.
>
>
> So I guess this makes me old, but not as old as others :)

Best statistics are the sites own logs.  I do some volunteer site 
design and maintanence work for a local political committee.  A while 
ago we solved the controversy by just looking at our own logs and 
realized that some of the lowest common denominator things we were 
doing only helped the robots and spiders.  They were the only text 
browsers hittng the site.

I would guess that the plug demographics are different, though.  I 
would bet half the lynx users in Philadelphia subscribe to this list 
<g>.

I thought it best to avoid this thread.  So much for my good judgment.  
I like Iman's idea of a CMS-based data driven site.  Once the templates 
are done, we could present the page for Lynx, Mozilla IE 6.whatever, or 
Handspring's Blazer (nice graphical Palm browser; Eudora Web for text 
only).  I think a write once, present how you want it solution makes a 
whole lot of sense.  I don't understand the resistance.
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