Clutterification
Mon 20 Oct 2003 11:12:12
Who else recoiled in horror at Inq7's new front page? I completely missed the redesign, since I bookmark the "mobile" interface (which, incidentally, does not work on my mobile device, a Sony Ericsson T300 with a plodding WAP browser).
The horror starts right at <table width=1000... and gets steadily worse from there: ghostly floating logos, nested tables, spacer gifs, inline javascript by the bandehado, disunited ad-boxes cluttering up every section, <font> tags, a patchwork of lines and gray boxes along the bottom... This site tries to be all things to all people -- especially the sales department -- and it fails, sacrificing usability and structure in the process.
Was it a good thing, perhaps, that they didn't hire me last year?
You know the Web EIC of Inq-7 -- JV Rufino of Guidon fame! Write him a note!
table width=1000 -- the horror!
Gah. They need Zeldman. Badly.
Get a Sony Ericsson T610. It reads html like a dream. I was viewing my website in it for ages before I realised I was actually viewing the main page and not the special mobile edition (i'm stupid okay) but it still handled the thousands of div tags and images fine.
sounds like someone's being bitter. I've had my tries on applying on such company. but i didn't take it too badly. instead i reflected on what's wrong with me and tried to make myself to be much better than i used to.