Re: New Camera from Joaquin Casado and prompt box

From: George L Smyth <glsmyth_at_domain.name.suppressed>
Date: Mon 09 Dec 2002 - 14:10:16 PST

Margaret -

Actually, that is not my website (I did help lastyear, but was not selected to
help this past year).

I am sure that the individual maintaining the site will speak up.

Cheers -

george
http://GLSmyth.com

--- Margaret Graham <mmg24@drexel.edu> wrote:
> George,
>
> Given your concern for usability, I know you will want to know about the
> problem
> I'm experiencing on your site at http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/. In
> attempting
> to view the April 28, 2002 images, I receive the following message:
>
> Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maketextimage() in
> /usr/www/users/pinhole/WPD/includes/setup.php on line 322 (Windows 2000, IE
> 5, NS
> 4.7 and Opera 6.01).
>
> Haven't yet tried NS6. Clues? The 2001 images are wonderful although it's a
> lot
> to click through.
>
> Margaret Graham
>
> George L Smyth wrote:
>
> > --- Guillermo <penate@rogers.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "George L Smyth" <glsmyth@yahoo.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hmmm, okay. Very poor website design. I would like to see more
> pictures,
> > > get
> > > > more details, maybe even find out how much it costs. I have no desire
> to
> > > send
> > > > him an email. Anyway, I do my email through Yahoo, so this doesn't do
> me
> > > a
> > > > whole lot of good. Too bad that something that should be so simple
> > > becomes
> > > > impossible. I wonder if the camera is similarly designed.
> > >
> > > Common George, give Joaquin a break. The 1000's words the pictures in
> his
> > > site say speak very loud of his design and craftmanship.
> > >
> > > I said in my post that this was a PRE-ANNOUCEMENT. Joaquin sent me and
> a
> > > couple of other persons an email for us to PRE-VIEW his new creation, the
> > > site IS NOT meant as THE site from which he'll sell this camera, nor it
> is
> > > intended to ANNOUNCE the camera to the world, it says in the home page
> that
> > > there will be a web site coming soon.
> > >
> > > I'll stop short of saying I made a mistake with my posting of Joaquin
> > > pre-announcement to the list, Joaquin indicated to me, he was surpriced
> to
> > > find this morning so many emails from people interested, so no question
> some
> > > people were impressed with the beauty of the cameras and wanted to know
> > > more.
> >
> > Guillermo
> >
> > I would think that he would want to know that whomever is putting together
> his
> > site is doing so in a way that potential customers will be driven away.
> Site
> > designers too often indulge in grandiose designs meant to be "cool" that
> are
> > actually unusable. There is nothing more important than usability.
> >
> > Before the final design is complete, it would be best for the site designer
> to
> > know of the negative feedback from potential customers. If the site
> remains as
> > is and goes live, he will lose many sales from people who have no idea how
> to
> > use this confusing site.
> >
> > Just my opinion.
> >
> > Cheers -
> >
> > george
> >
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