SCN: RE: Redesigned Web pages

[Rod Clark]

> I agree - not a minute, but certainly 15-20 seconds to load a new page.
> This could just be related to ongoing problems with the SCN4 server. 

Ken, 

   Here's the current uptime info for SCN4, at 1:11 PM (average
for the last 1 minute, 5 mins, 15 

18.21 8.91 6.52

> ... However, just considering that Sci/Tech section - it
> impresses me as being a real hodge podge mix of Information
> Provider sites on SCN, other sites of sci/tech related
> organizations, local community resources, random stuff from
> elsewhere (NASA, for example), etc.

   There's relatively little lodcal information in the Sci-Tech
section. I'd like to see a stronger effort to list local sites
there, and leave the general science directories to others.
Seattle is a center of research in aerospace, biotechnology,
medicine, software, Internet innovations and many other things.
That and other local info should be more what the Sci-Tech page
is about, if possible. SCN is basically a local directory, and
the effort should go into that. The great majority of the links
in each topic section should be local.

> Along those lines - the alphabetic listing of sites on SCN is good, but
> take it a step further, since the list is long - identify each letter
> section (B's for example) with an <A NAME="B"> tag, and then provide a bar
> at the top ABCDE---- which would be clickable links to the anchors for the
> A, B, etc sections.

   That's a good suggestion. Would you like to copy the page and
add that to it? You could post the URL of your new version here.
Maybe others would have some contributions to make to improve it
too.

Rod

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