Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)
Date: 10:18:08 07/29/99
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What I would suggest for your reviews are double-clickably thumbnail
screenshots that lead to full-sized ones, and menu listings as text.
If you really want your pages to load fast, use a format like the following:
A: I Top page 1 - text only, with a paragraph for each program,
and each paragraph has links to 1-5 for that program.
II Top page 2 - a gallery of one thumbnail screenshot for each program,
with links 1-5 below each thumbnail.
1 detailed description
2 thumbnail screenshot gallery for that program
3 text menu page.
4 official web page
5 demo download page
Each of pages 1-5 above should have links to pages I-II
and to pages 1-5 for that program. In addition, there should be
a few lower level pages:
A- individual full-size screenshots (linked from (2)
B- online documentation file, if you can get permission to post it,
as text. (linked from (1), (3)).
Mind you, I've never been quite that thorough myself.
Two reasonably thorough site descriptions of chess software are:
MacChess: http://members.aol.com/macchess/
Sigma Chess: http://users.cybercity.dk/~bst10651/
both sites include:
- links to full-size screenshots from thumbnails
- documentation directly available in your browser
- menu information
For the second site, this is a GIF collage of menus
http://users.cybercity.dk/~bst10651/SigmaMenus.gif
Similar menu collages are online for:
HIARCS: http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/h7menus.gif
MacChess: http://www.internetchess.com/images/screenshots/mc5menus.gif
Note that menu information can be made a text page, which loads faster:
scroll to the bottom of my HIARCS review at:
http://www.gambitsoft.com/chess/games/hiar6me.htm
to see an example.
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>
>Maybe this would make a CCC poll: how do the looks of a chess interface
>influence your decision to buy or dowload it?
Yes.
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> Do you think if chess software
>providers show enough of their product on the Web?
No.
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