Aquarionics

Thursday 16^th January 2003

We've struck pure moron

So, Today I was surfing, and discovered...

Welcome to The Buffy Network. It has come to our attention recently that a lot of visitors to this website do not have the correct setting on their computer when they try and access the site. For example, 0.82% of visitors are using Netscape - which does not support the kind of html coding we use. 2.10% of visitors dont have Java installed and/or turned on, Java is essential for some of the pop up windows we use. And 40.76% of vistors are using the wrong screen resoloution. Anything larger than 800 x 600 is too large, and the pages do not diosplay properly. Please try and use the right settings on your computer before entering the site, in order to make it look on your screen, how we intened it to look on ours. Thank you for visiting The Buffy Network. Please click 'Ok' to close this window."

2003-01-16 20:16:03
Updated 22 weeks later
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Laurabelle:

2003-01-16 21:40 1 hr after the Original Article

Wow, there are just so* many things wrong with that site. Typos and misspellings galore, and they have *help pages for glods sake, purely for problems with the website itself (not at all about Buffy). And their help pages are on a different “sever” [sic] because Geocities keeps shutting down various parts of the website for breach of TOS. And take a look at that source! I really wonder if whoever wrote it has ever looked at a HTML book or even website.

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dearg:

2003-01-16 22:08 2 hrs after the Original Article

Scary.

I guess some people have never heard of accessibility. I wonder if they’ll complain about blind people not being able to read it, disabled people not being accurate enough to click on things etc.

Dive into Accessibilty should be considered compulsory reading for web designers.

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Laurabelle:

2003-01-16 22:45 36 mins after dearg

For that matter, HtmlGoodies should be considered compulsory reading. Nested , , and even tags! Sheesh!

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gilmae:

2003-01-17 03:53 6 hrs after dearg

The HTML specs should be considered compulsory reading for web designers. I once asked the designer hired by my company to do the creative work why he messed around with when there was . Blankness was my answer.

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