How about a JavaScript-based page in which
the visitor hovers over the first letter of
interest, from a set of 26 + any requiring diacritics.
The JavaScript would then dynamically offer
the set of second letters which lead
to valid names, over which the visitor
could again hover and so on ...
Philip Taylor, RHBNC
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Sheila Thomas wrote:
>
> Please, could anyone offer advice on presentation and maintenance of long
> lists of names on web pages?
>
> I have been asked to list the names of all individual professional members
> of The Welding Institute, on a page or set of pages that will be in a
> 'members only' part of the website. We need to balance usefulness to the
> members with ease of processing and maintenance for ourselves.
>
> I think I'd like to do it as an online database, but that is too expensive.
> Instead, we are thinking about doing it as a separate page of HTML for each
> grade of membership, then just listing names in alphabetical order, one
> under the other.
> Other institutions may not do it, or, if they do, probably have the lists
> hidden in their password-protected areas so I can't peek!
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> Sheila Thomas [log in to unmask]
> Web Manager at TWI
> http://www.twi.co.uk
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