Mon, 07 Aug 2006
New KTD Site
The new KTD web site is in the process of coming on line. Naomi and Jack have been working on it for months. As far as the look goes, it's an improvement. But when you look at the html, you see it's an old fashioned design, using tables and spacer gifs for layout and javascript image rollovers for navigation. This makes for fat web pages, though in the days of DSL I suppose many won't notice. The Space Telescope site has many of the same problems, but it was designed five years ago when Netscape Four users were still a significant fraction of our user base. We're trying to move to a CSS based layout and I wish KTD had used this redesign to do the same. A site redesign of this scale is a lot of work to be handled by so few people and will no doubt be in place for many years. It's going to look dated as 2010 approaches.
