[David Tran]

Dear fellow London commuters

I am a London commuter, and also know a bit about web design, so have
decided to put the two together and come up with an area on my website
where I record events, stories, and images from my daily journey into
Docklands. I have made it possible for everyone to post their own
stories too, so everyone is welcome to just drop a message or a photo
here. There are a few tube related blogs around, but most of them do not
allow visitors to post new articles.

I have also include a Tube route finder with integrated Google maps,
which some people might find useful. You can also use the route finder
to subscribe to the communities for the stations along your daily journey.

The URL is http://www.ok2life.com/. I have only just started so will
take a bit of time to build up articles and images, so look forward to
seeing new visitors. Do send me suggestions on anything else you think I
can do to improve the site's usefullness, like live chat, perhaps.

Regards
David

[Jarle H Knudsen]

On Sun, 07 May 2006 13:02:20 +0100, David Tran wrote:

The URL is http://www.ok2life.com/. I have only just started so will
take a bit of time to build up articles and images, so look forward to
seeing new visitors. Do send me suggestions on anything else you think I
can do to improve the site's usefullness, like live chat, perhaps.

My first suggestion is: Do not use framesets.

--
jhk

[loobyloo]

On Sun, 07 May 2006 13:02:20 +0100, David Tran wrote:

The URL is http://www.ok2life.com/. I have only just started so will
take a bit of time to build up articles and images, so look forward to
seeing new visitors. Do send me suggestions on anything else you think I
can do to improve the site's usefullness, like live chat, perhaps.



How about having a bit about the aims and purpose of the site on the front
page?

--
loobyloo
Flat 978, The Old Lard Factory, Lancaster http://loobynet.com/
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[Richard J.]

Re subject, who or what is ANN?
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Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

[David Tran]

Richard J. wrote:
Re subject, who or what is ANN?

[ANN] normally stands for ANNouncement, so you can filter it out from
other postings ...

[David Tran]

loobyloo wrote:
On Sun, 07 May 2006 13:02:20 +0100, David Tran wrote:

The URL is http://www.ok2life.com/. I have only just started so will
take a bit of time to build up articles and images, so look forward to
seeing new visitors. Do send me suggestions on anything else you think I
can do to improve the site's usefullness, like live chat, perhaps.




How about having a bit about the aims and purpose of the site on the front
page?


I had a page labelled "Mission Statement" on the left hand menu, did not
want to make it the front page as the content is rather static. I
thought maybe visitors want to see the front page changing as new
articles are posted, does this make sense ?

Regards
David

[David Tran]

Jarle H Knudsen wrote:
On Sun, 07 May 2006 13:02:20 +0100, David Tran wrote:


The URL is http://www.ok2life.com/. I have only just started so will
take a bit of time to build up articles and images, so look forward to
seeing new visitors. Do send me suggestions on anything else you think I
can do to improve the site's usefullness, like live chat, perhaps.


My first suggestion is: Do not use framesets.


You are right, the actual URL without frameset is
http://public.ok2life.com/, but I thought www is a bit more familiar to
people. Will switch to a new DNS provider in the near future, once I
have more time. Thanks for the suggestions.

Regards
David

[Richard J.]

David Tran wrote:
Richard J. wrote:
Re subject, who or what is ANN?

[ANN] normally stands for ANNouncement, so you can filter it out
from other postings ...

Thanks. It doesn't seem to be a widely documented convention, nor one
that is used often, hence my puzzlement.
--
Richard J.
(to e-mail me, swap uk and yon in address)

[David Tran]

Steve Fitzgerald wrote:
In message , Richard J.
writes

David Tran wrote:

Richard J. wrote:

Re subject, who or what is ANN?


[ANN] normally stands for ANNouncement, so you can filter it out
from other postings ...


Thanks. It doesn't seem to be a widely documented convention, nor one
that is used often, hence my puzzlement.


I've never heard of it either and I've been mooching around Usenet for
years.

I guess geeky people (i.e. myself) live in a world of their own and
after a while they think it is the norm with the outside world :-)

To prove that this convention actually exists, you can look at, for
example, comp.lang.java.announce, or any other newsgroups with
"announce" in it, to see what I mean.

Regards
David

[wyj]