Know nothing about creating webpages? Give us Feedback!
First of all, we need feedback about our website.
Within the limits of our budget, we're always
interested in your suggestions to make our site better.
Anything you find on EarthChronicle.com that you
would change or think can be done better,
just email us.
If you'd like to be even more involved, check out our Beta site.
Before anything major changes on our site, we let you test the next
generation of EarthChronicle designs. Tell us what works, what doesn't,
and what needs to be tweaked before we let anyone else see it. In
addition, new pages serve an "apprenticeship" on the Beta site before they
graduate to EarthChronicle.com. Hopefully, you can catch any glitches
before the rest of the world sees them. In exchange, for testing our new
designs and previewing our new pages, you get dibs on the latest information
coming into EarthChronicle.com as well as the chance to shape what our
website will look like for years to come
at EarthChronicle.com Beta.
Artistic? Design Web Pages or our Site Layout!
We need web designers to help lay out information on our site. As much as possible
we want our pages to look alike so that people can navigate simply on every page.
However, certain topics, or certain ways of approaching a topic lend themselves to
a more creative approach. You don't need to know anything about the internet, or
programming to revamp the graphic design or the layout of a page so that the form
better complements the function of the page. You don't need to know anything about
computer science to fix something that just looks ugly. Help us make our site
work, and hopefully work beautifully! Just browse our pages and
email us. And PLEASE
give us your opinion about our Beta
site. We've practically designed our Beta site with the artist in mind.
When you fix a page on EarthChronicle.com, you've corrected one problem and that's
a big help to us. However, if you
save a desgin on our Beta Site, you've prevented problems on thousands of webpages
that we've yet to build. Visit our
Beta Site!
Technical? Build our webpages!
Technically expert? Or better Technical AND Artistic? Someone actually has to write
these webpages. A lot of what's submitted can be stuffed into templates and is
pretty easy for us to deal with. But some pages, especially ones our artistic
designers have become inspired with, need more skill to write. That's where YOU
become indispensible. We need you to design and build our pages and our website.
There are improvements and desgins we're looking to make, as well as major new
site features that aren't programming themselves. For examples
see our Website Log.
Plus, we're always looking for ways to streamline and simplify our pages. All
websites are concerned about this, but the sheer numbers of pages we want to access
with our limited space and bandwidth transform this into a problem almost unique to
us. We shifted to CSS and introduced javascripts at the end of 2005, mostly
because of our obsession with standardizing and stripping our pages down to the minimum
possible code. If you want to help build
our site, Email us!
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