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One mans pleasure is another mans poison
Taking a few minutes break between tasks "j" and "k" for today, I visited a web page designed by its author to be the "worst in the world". In my opinion, the author had failed in his attempt; I have seen worse. And I wouldn't agree with some aspects of his reasoning either.  Our website uses a white base. It's there, specified "white" in the style sheets and / or HTML tags. The "worst in the world" page used a white base too. It was stated as being so boring that web authors should always be able to do better ... and we were treated to pages that had a black base and (of all things) a base of AOL logos if we explored his other pages. Perhaps these patterned bases are good for some pages that they were used on but I do have to say ... I prefer a base to BE a base - not a distracting layer on which I can lay all the exciting things on offer on my site. Perhaps the use of a strong colour or texture indicates that the author feels that his content is shallow?The "worst in the world" page included a rambling sentence about Mary' dog. And a picture of Mary's dog, who was a sweet looking hound ... the owner of the page commented that this content shouldn't have been there as obviously no-one was interested in the animal. Wrong, dear critic - it's my view that Mary was interested enough in the beast to go to the trouble of publishing a piece about him. (written 2005-07-26, updated 2006-06-05) Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles W512 - Web and Intranet - Site Design Aspects[229] A fortunate accident - (2005-02-27) [261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29) [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22) [319] Accommodation and landing pages - (2005-05-21) [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12) [352] Improved mining techniques! - (2005-06-19) [510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site - (2005-11-29) [556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful - (2006-01-06) [649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17) [718] Protecting images from theft - (2006-05-12) [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07) [823] An excellent use for a visitor count? - (2006-08-05) [859] Put the answer in context - it may be printed - (2006-09-08) [918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08) [1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30) [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21) [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27) [1353] Mood shots - (2007-09-16) [1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02) [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01) [3517] Tags used in writing this blog - (2011-11-12) [3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (2011-12-26) [3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines - (2012-01-22)
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