Date:    Wed, 3 Jun 1998 16:29:04 -0500
<br>From:    Grant Barrett <gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]DFJP.COM>
<br>Subject: Site Revised!
<br>
<br>This weekend I switched over the ADS web site (http://www.dfjp.com/ads/) to the
<br> new look, and I have been noodling it for the past few days
<br>
<br>Changes include:
<br>
<br>-- Added a separate search engine for the American Speech indexes, and included
<br> a note explaining that the available files are only indexes, not the full
<br> issues of the American Speech. I have a feeling a number of visitors thought
<br> they were getting the whole thing when clicked on the file links.
<br>
<br>-- Tried to organize some kind of Reference Materials page. This includes Daniel
<br> Long's excellent list of CD-ROM dictionaries , Susan-Marie Harrington's Dialect
<br> in Literature Bibliography, and some other stuff I snagged from the list at
<br> times when dictionaries, textbooks, audiovisual materials and other related
<br> items came up. Except for the two items mentioned above, I have not attributed
<br> entries to anyone. If you want credit, please let me know.
<br>
<br>-- Decreased loading times by eliminating some graphics.
<br>
<br>-- Doubled the number of links on the links page, removed outdated items,
<br> provided descriptions for many of the links and categorized them. There are
<br> other, more substantial, links pages out there, and I have resisted the urge to
<br> borrow wholesale from them, but I think you'll find ours are plenty, and
<br> useful.
<br>
<br>-- Got carried away with the color palette and changed the background to the
<br> color of Ozark mountain red clay (or as close as I could get) with bright
<br> yellow text on top of it. I expect a lot of positive mail on this one, I
<br> betcha.
<br>
<br>-- All the calls for papers from the last couple months of ADS-L are now listed
<br> with the calls from the ADS Newsletter.
<br>
<br>-- Added sectional navigation aids on each page underneath the standard site
<br> navigational strip.
<br>
<br>-- Removed the student center. It got virtually no traffic, and our newly
<br> expanded links page should lead student to useful resources.
<br>
<br>-- I did some basic editing: eliminated double spaces, de-jargonized where
<br> possible (mostly by spelling out acronyms), tried to eliminate words or
<br> sentences in ALL CAPS where appropriate,
<br>
<br>I got no takers on the pre-pub error checking, so there are bound to be
<br> mistakes. Let me know when you find them! Nothing quite as bad as a language
<br> site full of typos and misspellings.
<br>
<br>Grant Barrett
<br>gbarrett[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dfjp.com
<br>