Shall I compare thee to a pile of poo? This is nothing to do with photography, but I know there are many here among us who enjoy a gloriously bad website, so here's one: http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/
It's about Shakespeare's sonnets, right? That's what the title says, and it's written in big curly letters at the top; it describes itself as 'The amazing web site of Shakespeare's sonnets', and starts 'All the sonnets are provided here...'. So the first challenge, after you've dismissed the pop-ups, is to find a sonnet. To do that you have to scroll past a whole load of thumbnails of attractive but not obviously relevant, or even inter-related, paintings. When you do finally get to the end of them, there are some links to other pages about the painters. None of them have anything to do with Shakespeare. Then a picture and description of a book of our Billy's sonnets, but no link to an online bookshop. Then, several pages down, a section entitled 'Advice on using this site'. I repeat, several pages down. Of course any site which needs to offer such advice is already in big trouble, so why not hide the advice anyway? It begins "For those who have difficulty reading these pages because of the background colour, I suggest the following.". Hmm. How about removing the difficulty, dude? Still no sonnets, by the way. But soft, what light through yonder web page breaks? Is this a description of how to search I see before me? Yes, and the instructions are only 256 words long, spread out across the whole width of the page. But no search box. He has thoughtfully included, in the middle of the description 'If you are in difficulty, go to the Map of the site, which should help to give you your bearings.". Er, where is the map? I could go on. For pages. For days. But I don't want to spoil it for you. Have a look. It's a treasure. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
