You consider the views expressed on a site with such atrocious text contract? Their design tells me they're a joke. Any self-respecting designer wouldn't want their words seen on such a design.

Posted by: Bill on June 6, 2002 08:33 PM

 

I THINK Bill was criticizing the text CONTRAST, and that was the reason for my posting as well. What is it with this "washed out" look on the Boxes and Arrows site?

It's the same feeling I get when I see Diane Sawyer or Barbara WaWa on TV. There are so many filters the whole scene looks blurry!

Posted by: Eric Grose on June 7, 2002 10:27 AM

 

If only John's site search were working properly (hint, hint), I'd point you to the weblog entry where he announced the launch of the site, and I commented that the contrast sucked. The sky blue used for headline text is a receding colour, and they couldn't have made a poorer choice. Combined with the grey, it looks positively anaemic. Anyway, it's their site...

Of course, saying that the articles on a poorly designed site don't have any merit is not logical.

What is it with these IA sites and lists? Over on sigia-l, 90% of the supposedly "with it" members don't know the first thing about mailing list etiquette. They don't trim posts (finding several quoted threads with a one-line reply is not uncommon), use HTML mail (which really screws the digest), and no, constantly saying "please excuse the cross-posting" doesn't make it OK to cross-post, you hear? Take the extra 5 seconds to send separate emails. I'm still a member, but rarely read the list. Pity really.

Did that sound like a troll? It wasn't intended to be, but I'm in a lousy mood. IAs are *supposed* to know better.

Posted by: MadMan on June 7, 2002 12:14 PM

 

MadMan, regarding the searching, I just did about 10 searches on WebWord using Google and could not find your posting. So, even if I install Google as my search engine, we still wouldn't be able to find the mystery posting. I wonder what I can do to fix this?

By the way, I know that I still need to fix the archive links. If only I had more time...!

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 7, 2002 12:29 PM

 

John, just try and find YOUR post about the launch of B&A. (Sounds too much like T&A ;)

That post has associated comments from JS, myself, and others. There, you've got your URL.

And I tried Google too before I gave up. I'll add your site to Google again (www.google.com/addurl.html) and see if it indexes it properly.

Isn't it strange that most of us don't even think of using anything other than Google these days? What happened to Lycos, Excite, Altavista, FastWeb, HotBot, etc.? Does *anyone* still use 'em?

Posted by: MadMan on June 7, 2002 01:41 PM

 

For some fun I wrote a terrible and stupid Friday story: For some Excite, Lycos decided to get into a HotBot for a FastWeb drive but it was too Altavista so they gave up.

Can anyone else write a terrible story using names of useless search engines? I've thrown down the gauntlet!

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 7, 2002 03:16 PM