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I must have misread my watch last night when I used it as the reference to set my alarm clock (but my eyes were all tired, remember?) because when my alarm clock went off this morning, it said 6:00am but it was still pretty dark. So I checked my watch. It was 5:00am. Bah. I just got up and went to work anyway because I didn't feel like doing anything at home and if I went back to bed, I'd just end up oversleeping.
Jul. 29th, 2005
blind leading the blind here
Jul. 29th, 2005 11:12 amhttp://www.unplug.com/great/: advice on web design by people who clearly don't know a goddamn thing about web design. Such as:
"tip #60 - use frames,"
"tip #87 - use GIF animation,"
and
"tip #96 - get HTML editors" which would be OK except it includes "I can highly recommend Microsoft FrontPage."
"If you follow these and other exciting tips, you too can have a web site almost as ugly as ours."
OK, it doesn't really say that last bit.
But cripes, that is one amateurish-looking site right there. I'm sure it's possible to make decent graphics using exclusively MS Paint but it's much, much more likely you'll end up with a crappy site like this one. Maybe I'm just biased because my graphics use more than 6 colors.
And it's not easy to find things. Just now, I was thinking "was the FrontPage reference in 'Beginning Tips' or 'Advanced Tips?'" It's a pitty they don't have a tip that says "make things easy to find" because that would have been deliciously ironic.
ETA: wait a minute, those drop shadows on the text? They had to have used a decent program! And one of their tips is "tip #30 - master your graphics tools." OK, that's my irony quota filled.
"tip #60 - use frames,"
"tip #87 - use GIF animation,"
and
"tip #96 - get HTML editors" which would be OK except it includes "I can highly recommend Microsoft FrontPage."
"If you follow these and other exciting tips, you too can have a web site almost as ugly as ours."
OK, it doesn't really say that last bit.
But cripes, that is one amateurish-looking site right there. I'm sure it's possible to make decent graphics using exclusively MS Paint but it's much, much more likely you'll end up with a crappy site like this one. Maybe I'm just biased because my graphics use more than 6 colors.
And it's not easy to find things. Just now, I was thinking "was the FrontPage reference in 'Beginning Tips' or 'Advanced Tips?'" It's a pitty they don't have a tip that says "make things easy to find" because that would have been deliciously ironic.
ETA: wait a minute, those drop shadows on the text? They had to have used a decent program! And one of their tips is "tip #30 - master your graphics tools." OK, that's my irony quota filled.