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We put more common sense into our home page. It just grew organically. In the beginning I thought it needed an impressive letterhead kind of name
to begin with. It took some time to find out this was just a wasting the visitor's attention. Then it took more time to find out how to do it better. The answer: just act
functional!
The menu now is reduced to the bare minimum in height, but located at a place where people will look for it. The name Demotech is still there.
Reduced in size, but still making clear this site is Demotech's site and Demotech has something to do with the many pictures and the pump
animation. Not hard to get a general impression in a few seconds.
The width in pixels guaranties it fits well on a 15 inch monitor. The guess is 15 inch monitors is the seize used by our most important clients,
the NGO's in Third World countries. There is no need to scroll sideways. A little scrolling up and down helps.
New, apart from the homepage layout, is "Presentation". Presentation is the database that contains presentations, such as the excursion in pictures in our workshop. More often presentations will be used to create construction
manuals such as the WellCover construction manual .What now is visible is just the very beginning.
Marc van der Kamp works on integrating and linking "Presentation" with the rest of the database.
"Presentation" will be used in three different modes:
For a sketchy presentation of a recent experiment, meant to keep people informed who somehow participate in that experiment.
To show a properly edited version of a construction manual, combining text and illustrations.
To make a slideshow to clarify more complex ideas, such as "What is Demotech about". As Demotech's targets are beyond what can
be considered 'reasonable', indeed such a presentation better should be clear and impressive.
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