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>


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