> > one of my favorite tricks was to swing my monitor around and ask the
> > candidates for webmaster to take me to their demo site. me being a
> > geek-luddite, my standard browser settings are no Java, no Javascript,
> > and no automatic image loading.
> >
> > since i'm also a rank bastard, i never bothered to mention that fact.
>
> BRAVO!!!
Very, very nasty -- I love it. Also a good idea, as someone
mentioned, to get clients to try that on the fancy sites with the all-
dancing automation and massive graphics.
We have a telecom/Web oriented business organisation who
announced a competition to judge the best Web sites in the
country. Their announcement page was a big yellow blob -- and
these were the guys judging us?? I was vaguely considering joining
it as one of the few professional groups we have in this area (both
business and regionally) but that put me right off. I don't see them
as having much credibility in the Web area as a consequence, and
of course first impressions are hard to shake...
> I just won another battle today with a client who wanted "a bit" of
> graphics on top. He said it looked great, etc. etc.
It's really bad when you deal with publishers as they want control
down to the pica level. We spent about three months in
discussions with one editor getting across the idea of the impact of
screens, browsers etc. It wasn't until she'd been through that
process and then had to talk to others on her production staff that
she realised just how intransigent she'd been. (And no, it wouldn't
usually take us that long but she's 12,000 miles away and the
discussion was held in between mag production, conference
attending etc.)
We spent a lot of time trying to figure out why she apparently had a
wrapping problem with a search form -- nothing we did made it
reproduce the "dropped box" problem she described. It wasn't until
she'd faxed us a copy of the offending page that we figured out she
was talking about the top of the actual form boxes not lining up
exactly with the text next to it.
> I told him to hit the refresh button and started counting... fifteen
> seconds.
Our major telecommunications company here launched their fancy
Xtra Web service with a home page graphic that took 3 minutes 43
seconds to load the day we tried it, with no alternative navigation
whatsoever. No, we don't tend to recommend them to clients
looking for ISPs...
Cheers,
Vicki
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