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| Art Sackett 2004-06-07, 8:58 am |
| Kolorvize <mail@kolorvize.com> wrote:
> Kolorvize Studios provide high quality design.
It's considered polite to wipe your feet before entering. Now that
you've gone and tracked manure on our carpets, you owe us all a humble
ass-kissing apology.
--
Art Sackett,
Patron Saint of Drunken Fornication
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| Vorxion 2004-06-07, 3:59 pm |
| In article <ca1hn001epv@news4.newsguy.com>, Art Sackett wrote:
>Kolorvize <mail@kolorvize.com> wrote:
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>It's considered polite to wipe your feet before entering. Now that
>you've gone and tracked manure on our carpets, you owe us all a humble
>ass-kissing apology.
*laugh* What'd he do? I can't tell what he did because I can't be
bothered to launch a graphical browser and type in his URL, and his site is
absolutely useless under lynx. :) That alone speaks to poor site design.
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Vorxion - Founder of the knocking-shop of the mind.
"You have it, you sell it, you've still got it--what's the difference?"
--Diana Trent, "Waiting for God", on why a modelling agency is really a
knocking-shop. Applied by me to the field of consulting. :)
The Sci-Fi fan's solution to debt: Reverse the polarity on your charge card.
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| Art Sackett 2004-06-08, 8:56 am |
| Vorxion <vorxion@knockingshopofthemind.com> wrote:
> *laugh* What'd he do? I can't tell what he did because I can't be
> bothered to launch a graphical browser and type in his URL, and his site is
> absolutely useless under lynx. :)
The top-level index is 100% Flash. The entire site might be, I dunno. I
bolted -- I have the Flash plugin, but I immediately discount the
professional qualifications of any web deeziner who makes a site
reliant upon client add-ons.
I have one particularly horrifying story about one such deeziner and a
chunk of my money that went to her with no resulting deployable
content. I'm not so foolish as to attempt to squeeze blood from a
turnip, so she got away with it. Shame on me.
> That alone speaks to poor site design.
Yep.
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Art Sackett,
Patron Saint of Drunken Fornication
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| Vorxion 2004-06-08, 8:56 am |
| In article <ca3t1q3umi@news1.newsguy.com>, Art Sackett wrote:
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>The top-level index is 100% Flash. The entire site might be, I dunno. I
>bolted -- I have the Flash plugin, but I immediately discount the
>professional qualifications of any web deeziner who makes a site
>reliant upon client add-ons.
Ugh. Agreed 200%. And I'm miffed at scifi.com. Tried going to look at
something there and their programme pages appear to rely 90%+ on Flash.
Now...I -have- the latest version of Flash, and it's the same as the
version on my wife's system. The only difference is that I'm running it on
win95 with IE 5.5 and she has w2k with IE 6. That must be it, but it's
annoying as it keeps saying the site requires Flash, but I -have- Flash.
*sigh*
Other Flash sites work. Not sure what's up with this one, but I'd like a
word with someone at that company--not that they'd likely care.
--
Vorxion - Founder of the knocking-shop of the mind.
"You have it, you sell it, you've still got it--what's the difference?"
--Diana Trent, "Waiting for God", on why a modelling agency is really a
knocking-shop. Applied by me to the field of consulting. :)
The Sci-Fi fan's solution to debt: Reverse the polarity on your charge card.
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| Art Sackett 2004-06-09, 3:56 am |
| Vorxion <vorxion@knockingshopofthemind.com> wrote:
> The only difference is that I'm running it on
> win95 with IE 5.5 and she has w2k with IE 6. That must be it, but it's
> annoying as it keeps saying the site requires Flash, but I -have- Flash.
I often see that kind of thing not long after MM releases a new version
of the plugin -- they're always slow to get the Linux version rolled
out. I'm not even suggesting that it's a player versioning problem,
since I have no way of knowing. Might be worth looking into, though.
We just inherited a site that relies upon Flash for its primary
navigation interface... the original deeziner (we don't generally even
do web design any more, but this client is a friend of a family member)
was contracted to do SEO, and convinced the client that a new site was
required. Okay, fine -- that's often my recommendation, too. But the
fools got the site punitively removed from Google's index. It might be
in there, down deep where the interface won't allow you to go, but it's
invisible. The client's understandably agitated.
When will people ever learn that Flash is for trivial  ness, and not
to be relied upon for essential functionality? To answer my own
question, probably never -- a good advertising campaign always trumps
the logical application of knowledge. Grrr...
--
Art Sackett,
Patron Saint of Drunken Fornication
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| Vorxion 2004-06-09, 3:56 am |
| In article <ca5g5c02u44@news1.newsguy.com>, Art Sackett wrote:
>Vorxion <vorxion@knockingshopofthemind.com> wrote:
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>I often see that kind of thing not long after MM releases a new version
>of the plugin -- they're always slow to get the Linux version rolled
>out. I'm not even suggesting that it's a player versioning problem,
>since I have no way of knowing. Might be worth looking into, though.
Might be. Thanks for the thoughts.
>We just inherited a site that relies upon Flash for its primary
>navigation interface... the original deeziner (we don't generally even
>do web design any more, but this client is a friend of a family member)
>was contracted to do SEO, and convinced the client that a new site was
>required. Okay, fine -- that's often my recommendation, too. But the
>fools got the site punitively removed from Google's index. It might be
>in there, down deep where the interface won't allow you to go, but it's
>invisible. The client's understandably agitated.
Man, that's just lunacy. I remember "You Can't Do That On Television" from
Nickelodeon's early days, a thought comes to mind: "Where do they get
them, and why do they keep sending them to THIS place?!"
>When will people ever learn that Flash is for trivial ness, and not
>to be relied upon for essential functionality? To answer my own
>question, probably never -- a good advertising campaign always trumps
>the logical application of knowledge. Grrr...
Oh, probably about the same time people stop using Windows for
mission-critical and security-sensitive applications. *sigh,grumble*
--
Vorxion - Founder of the knocking-shop of the mind.
"You have it, you sell it, you've still got it--what's the difference?"
--Diana Trent, "Waiting for God", on why a modelling agency is really a
knocking-shop. Applied by me to the field of consulting. :)
The Sci-Fi fan's solution to debt: Reverse the polarity on your charge card.
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