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Weirds
November 19th, 2003, 02:43
I am having a stories-driven site which I am going to provide more than 500 ghost stories, I am wondering how other same type of sites organized their contents. Should I provide html pages, word documents, or pdf format for those stories?

Please give some suggestions on how to organized them.
Thanks.
ranvier
November 19th, 2003, 03:02
Personally, i believe it depends.

Not everyone has acrobat and the user certainly won't download one just for the sake of viewing the *.pdf file.

Maybe what you can do is to provide a few options for them.

After reading it, they find that the story is nice and scary, they may click the link of the "printer-friendly" option so that they can copy and paste to word doc. easily. So, you don't have to waste bandwidth asking them to download a seperate .doc file.

Anyway, just my humble 2 cents worth of opinion. :)
ranvier
November 19th, 2003, 03:08
Whoa, seen your chinese site and it true that you have lots of ghost story. :applaudin

Although i know chinese, i am always puzzled how people can sit down and read thru all the chinese text?

Maybe that's because i use English to read and write more often than chinese so that may be the problem...
LeX
November 19th, 2003, 10:18
Originally posted by ranvier
Although i know chinese, i am always puzzled how people can sit down and read thru all the chinese text? Why not?

What I don't get is how people (who can read Chinese) can stand simplified words. They're ugly. They're meaningless. They're a disgrace to the Chinese culture.


Erm... sorry, back to the topic. I am against pdf formats.
Weirds
November 19th, 2003, 12:02
but how do they organize all the pages?

I really have a hard time organizing them. Please give me examples how you do yours.
sharkbyte
November 20th, 2003, 00:16
the most easiest/simple way to organize is to use lots of subdirectorys... ec: blblbla.com/main/stories/favorite/story title
Weirds
November 23rd, 2003, 19:14
Originally posted by LeX
Why not?

What I don't get is how people (who can read Chinese) can stand simplified words. They're ugly. They're meaningless. They're a disgrace to the Chinese culture.


Erm... sorry, back to the topic. I am against pdf formats.

most visitors are simplifed chinese readers.