9-July-04 ... Source:  EDDix   ... Notes:  See also, "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" by Phil Ochs

 

Mirroring life, starting a business (staging a website) is an iterative process and few of us are able to get it right the fist time around.  Us too ....

We are extremely grateful for the numerous mentions and links we've recently received, in and among The EDDix 50, and we will have more to say on that shortly.  Howellever, we would be remiss if we let this Friday in July pass by without addressing one particular post which we happened upon and which linked to, and provided commentary on EDDix (co.) and The EDDix 50 (list).

 

First, we are enormously indebted to this blawger for her incredibly generous comments about us and our work.  Additionally, we realize that we can't do this by ourselves and so, whenever we have the opportunity to learn from someone else, we try to shut up and listen.  Such is the instant case.

 

If you are not playing along at home (i.e. haven't see the post and couldn't be bothered to click the link above), the short strokes are these:  we received some constructive witticism about our web site design -- specifically to the effect that the ticker which runs across the top of each web page (to be precise, the term of art employed was "the confounded scrolling ticker thingy") is visually disruptive and gratuitous.

 

Professionals that we are, we appealed to our wives who, individually and severally, upheld and reaffirmed this blawger's judgment.

 

Soooo, we went back to the drawing board and now believe that we have arrived at a workable compromise (which is, after all, the substrate to which comity attaches and grows) which can be viewed at this test page.

 

Ostensibly, we have received two thumbs-up on the redesign from the blawger-in-question.  However, prior to deployment across our site, we think it prudent to broaden the critical audience to ensure that through the redesign (primarily content, i.e. read it, don't just look at it visually) we have not simply pushed a bump in the carpet to another location in the room.

 

Soooo, please view this test page now, if you have not done so already (what were you waiting for?) ... and, please email, fax, or post you comments to this blawger.

At the risk of repeating ourselves ... thanx! for all of your help and support ... we could not do this without you ....