i asked a friend who does interface design to comment on the "it worked"
page. i liked what he had to say. > From: James Home <jim@vagabondage.com> > > reading over the page, it appears that the primary audience for the > page is the person who's installing Apache. this doesn't really make > sense though; the only information it's necessary to convey to that > person is that the server is working, and the simple presence of the > page does that. sure, there are the links to the Apache homepage and > to documentation, but those don't require much prominence; if someone > is looking for them, they're easy to find. > > I'd say that the primary audience for the *information* on the page > is the poor befuddled user who doesn't know an Apache helicopter from > an Apache web server and wants to know what happened to the website > they've spent weeks working on. > > so how is a user like that going to experience the page? > > - a logo that they don't recognize at the bottom of the page > apparently claiming responsibility for it; > > - some confusing "It Worked!" message at the top of the page; > > - a somewhat threatening and vague message that, despite the fact > that this page is all about this mysterious software called Apache > (note that it isn't explained that Apache is web server software > until the very last line of small text), Apache isn't responsible for > the site, and I should "contact the administrator of the site > involved" (of course, if I was an end user who didn't understand how > web servers work, I would assume *I* was the administrator of my > site, leaving only this mysterious organization to contact). > > - clicking on the most prominent link takes me to another page that > doesn't specifically mention web servers. there's a contact link > though, which takes me to the page with the email address and Sally's > phone number. > > I did a quick mockup to demonstrate how I think this might work better: > > http://www.vagabondage.com/~jim/apache/worked2.html Submitted by: James Home <jim@vagabondage.com> git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/1.3.x@84086 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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