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The forces of stupidity have triumphed.
I had a meeting to discuss our web site and the 20-something who's had all kinds of wonderful ideas (like making some information only available if you're willing to wait for 30 photos to download and prefers to have multiple layers of organization - requiring more and more clicks to find some information - and putting lots and lots of high-res images without a single ALT tag) prevailed. sigh.
When I asked about making the site accessible to people using a hand-held or who didn't have a broadband connection, I was told "these guys travel with laptops more powerful than any of our desktops" so it wasn't necessary.
Oh ... and they want our organization - a trade association, basically - on Twitter.
Gah! The stupid, it burns!
If it's any consolation, my teachers in Digital Design would all disapprove of their approach.
Web developers and designers have lovely big screens to work on, and that can lead to thinking that is the way that all pages will be viewed. I've seen the same mode of thinking affect application developers -- a coworker I just couldn't get it across that most of our users were going to see these screens on a dinky laptop screen and that he should never plan on their windows being more than 800px across!
Does anybody have the Cascade Script font? I don't have $29 to buy it for about six small headlines on a website. I promise to burn it after using....
I have Freehand 471 [link]
Ooooh! That's damn close, isn't it?
If it accidentally happened to fall into an email you sent to me, I wouldn't complain....
Move along. Nothing to see here.
What can you say? Accidents happen....
ION, today's xkcd: CNR
I just thought that this gang would appreciate that I'm posting this from an old Win98 machine that I discovered while fixing up a few of my old audio rental machines to prep the to sell off. We even got this machine to recognize 512 MB of RAM. Who know Win98 would even see that much. Even more amazing, it had an old version of ProTools on it, so I was just running ProTools 5 on Windows 98. Yikes!
What's the difference between an Airport Extreme & external Hard Drive vs Time Capsule, aside from the all-in-one factor? It seems that internal hard drive feature comes at a pretty steep cost.
(yes, I'm thinking about buying stuff that I shouldn't)
