Why are the Pages so Colourless ?
Several people have asked me to ‘pep up’ the pages, using more colour and eventually a more ‘up to date’ navigation style (aka Frames and Java). First of all, these pages age not meant to satisfy carriers by transferring always increasing data blobs, but rather to carry information. Who likes to wait for several minutes, just to realize that the information he wants to get is not embeded withing the two megaoctets of stylish graphics? So, no pictures beside the absolute essentials, and all possible information encoded as plain text. All pages are (at the moment) sized below 20 KB. Even thru a 9,600 modem the biggest one will load between 15 and 25 seconds (Ok, ok, the first page accessed needs eventualy 9 more seconds for all navigational elements). Also these pages are designed not only to be displayed with every possible (HTML-) browser known to man (Including HL 2.5 :), but also be displayed in an acceptable manner (if not looking realy good :). Using Frames, Sourcehopping, Java and
