[thelist] your opinion solicited on coding specs I requested from contractor

Paul Backhouse paul.backhouse at 2cs.com
Thu Oct 18 11:21:43 CDT 2001


Spinhead,
	   are these the specs uve been given to work to?
they're pretty typical - id argue the toss on NS/IE 3.

cheers

paul

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of spinhead
Sent: 18 October 2001 16:57
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] your opinion solicited on coding specs I
requested from contractor


That wasn't exactly the type of error I was expecting folks to catch. BIMFR.

Here it is:

must use CSS for all font modifications, not <font> tags

logical directory structure (I realize this is vague, but I'd at least
expect some thought given to it; I've seen structures that were obviously
conceived by the Salvador Dali School of Web Design)

page structure must be flexible
 no fixed bottom
 no fixed right side
 scrolling down is okay
 scrolling sideways is NOT okay

page size
 nothing over 50k total page size
 usable at 800x600
 optimized for 1024x768

modular code
 Server Side Includes for ALL re-used content
  headers
  footers
  navigation
 CSS (see above)
 no duplication of graphics or code

compatibility
 basic colors (backgrounds, text) must be within web safe palette
 usable for NN/IE 3+ for PC, Mac, NN for Unix
 optimized for IE 5+ for PC

technical coding constraints
 no proprietary development code; i.e. Cold Fusion, etc.
 server platform is IIS 5.0 on Windows 2000
 ASP, JavaScript, and SQL acceptable

all images must have width, height, border, alt attributes specified
images over 20k should have lowsrc attribute and graphic
navigation graphics should be independent, not part of a larger graphic
[makes it difficult to add/remove sections]
all gifs interlaced
all tables must have border, cellpadding, cellspacing attributes specified
all colors specified in hex

no Java applets
===========================
spinhead


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Davis" <bobd at members.evolt.org>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] your opinion solicited on coding specs I requested
from contractor


> At 4:30 PM -0700 10/17/01, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Any glaringly stupid requirements? Am I missing anything really
important?
> >(The last group claimed this was perfectly acceptable, then delivered
> >something which was pretty close but didn't work in Netscape, so they
blew
> >away all concept of modular code and copied and pasted 15k chunks into
every
> >page to get the navigation to work; therefore, I don't have a real feel
for
> >whether or not this works in the real world.)
>
> Were you asking whether it's cool to ask for standards or did you
> want us to look at the standards you were going to ask for and review
> them?
>
> If it was the former, I don't see any problem with it.  Great idea,
> in fact, if they'll work with it.
>
> If it was the later, well...you kind of forgot to include them in the
> body of the mail.
>
> ;)
>
> I'd like to see it.
>
>
> bob
>
> --
> bob davis
> bobd at members.evolt.org
> http://www.bobdavis.org/
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