Thinking For Myself

... some details about my changes to the " cookie cutter spam " web pages

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My design philosophy

Even though I have a fairly fast modem, I hate graphics with no content. I want the text, and I want it fast. As a result, I tend not to use many graphics, and I try to remember to include ALT text whenever I do have graphics.

Although I did make a number of changes to these templates, I didn't spend a LOT of time on them. They aren't especially pretty. I mostly just wanted to get them up on the net for people to see.

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Some of my changes:

Scientology Cookie-Cutter Pages	My New-and-Improved Pages
meaningless Next and Previous links	no meaningless Next and Previous links
annoying status messages on mouseover	no status messages on mouseover
ridiculously long Title tags	shorter, more sensible Title tags
inconsistent navigation	consistent navigation bar, with the redundant imagemap removed
graphics-heavy	hardly any graphics at all; title graphics replaced with Header 1 text titles, and drop cap graphics replaced with text
redundant content links on the main page	no redundant links on the main page
almost no links to additional information within sentences	lots of links to additional info within sentences
no visitor counter	added visitor counter
all pages use .htm suffix	changed to .html suffix, because I'm a Mac and UNIX person and don't like the cult of Micro$oft any better than I like the cult of Scientology

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Think you could do better?

Of course you could. I put hardly any time into this at all. (And most of the time I did spend consisted of writing up my personal experiences and tracking down references for all my informational links.)

So go ahead - put together your own collection of pages, either pro or con! Show the world you can think for yourself!

(But don't do it just because I told you to ...)

This page was last updated on May 8, 1999.