Thanks. Have you read Phil Greenspan's stuff? You and he are beating the same drum. May I clap along?
I remember when if you went somewhere like IBM's website all there was was information. From driver downloads to white papers about their latest technology. Then the web became commercial and the advertising types took over the website. Now it is commercials, commercials, commercials. Actually, to give IBM it's due some of the information is still there, but you have to dig deep. Other companies have gone farther, they have taken all that boring stuff off the web. Instead you can call them on the phone where you can punch in a menu response, and wait; punch in a menu response and wait:.....and eventually hang up. That way they don't have to deal with annoying customers, or paying ones either. Wow, you sure hit my buttons, didn't you. Q: How can you tell someone's been coding HTML on your computer. A: When you go to use it the Cap Lock key is on. Ciao, Graywolf http://pages.prodigy.net/graywolfphoto ---------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 1:14 AM Subject: Re: My Website > Graywolf smiled: > > "Simple, yet elegant." I must be doing something right because that was just > > what I was trying for. > > Actually, trying for that _was_ the something you did right. > Merely understanding what "simple yet elegant" means well enough > to want it in the first place, probably put you more than two > thirds of the way towards attaining it. A lot of the stuff I > listed in my critique of the site last night were just details. > Sometimes important details, but still secondary to the design > itself. > > <voice=rant> > I've just spent a dozen hours researching availability and > features of a certain type of high-tech product, and jeepers do > my eyeballs and brain hurt. Corporate web sites that were nigh > illegible. (I actually had to switch to a text-only browser to > read one of them because they'd screwed up the fancy-schmancy > graphical layout so amazingly badly. Yes I sometimes use text > browsers by choice, but for this I wanted some of the spiffy > user-interface features of Opera 6). Corporate web sites full > of dead links. Corporate web sites with rows of pretty pictures > (of nondescript beige boxes with logos on the front!) and > precious little detail about what the boxes do. Corporate web > sites where I have to dig down through three layers to find the > page I need, and then discover that the information I want is > spread out over five sub-pages with lots of redundant > information common to all five. Corporate web sites which tell > me all the voltages and connector types but never mention frame > rate or encoding. Corporate web sites full of squinty little > type that's no fun on a "mere" seventeen-inch monitor. Oh, what > fun. They weren't _all_ bad, but I started wondering whether > the few that didn't suck were violating some industry rule about > having to have bad web sites. > </voice> > > Choosing to try for "simple yet elegant" was a simple yet major > thing you got right. Please, everyone, spread that meme! > > -- Glenn > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
