[thelist] New Free LAMP Framework

VOLKAN ÖZÇELİK volkan.ozcelik at gmail.com
Sat Jul 16 16:51:49 CDT 2005


Have not looked at the product.

Just two things in the HTML markup that caught to my eye:

1. Non-standard markup in the form of a tag soup (plus no doctype):

<FONT CLASS="xxsmall">
<P ALIGN="center"><A HREF="/corporate/contactus.html"><IMG
SRC="/shared/email.gif" ALIGN="center" BORDER=0 WIDTH=104 HEIGHT=9
ALT="..."></A></P>
<P ALIGN="center">
<FONT COLOR="#FFC000"><B>1.888.815.8599</B></FONT></P>
<P ALIGN="center">
<A HREF="/corporate/legal/index.html" CLASS="xxsmall">...</A></P>
</FONT>

2. A code fork which assumes that the user uses javascript.

		if (! netscape4) {
			document.write('<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"
HREF="/shared/stylesheets/iemozilla.css">');
		} else {
			document.write('<LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css"
HREF="/shared/stylesheets/netscape4.css">');
		}
* * *

If there are people around, like me,  who examine the page source
before buying a web-related product, I highly suggest you to author a
standards-aware and accessible markup.

If it were a commercial product I would have run away from the site in seconds.

imho, a clean, usable, accessible and standards-aware markup reflects
the degree of profession of a firm in the web business. (again it's
just my humble opinion. I give it as a general comment on how I and
some geeks like me approach to the issue. Not meaning anything
personal and not criticising the way you do things.)

Just to mention that tiny details may be more important than they seem
at the first sight.

Cheers,
Volkan.



On 7/16/05, Aaron Greenspan <aarong at thinkcomputer.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We've been charging for our PHP framework, Lampshade, for a long time,
> but we just decided to make it free for personal and academic use:
> 
> http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/news/pressreleases.html?id=22
> 
> Of course, if you're a web designer doing research on a good framework
> to speed up projects for your clients, that's fine, too.
> 
> If you have any questions, let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Aaron
> 
> Aaron Greenspan
> President & CEO
> Think Computer Corporation
> 
> http://www.thinkcomputer.com
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