12:51 PM
Internet· Rants & Whines Speaking my mind

So I'm wandering around some blogs and I happen on Globe of Blogs and I register my two blogs and then wander into the webrings page. I open a bunch of rings in different tabs and one of them is Brutally Honest for bloggers that speak their mind and I'm about to speak my mind about this asinine page.

I read this small dense paragraph which the author has deliberately set the line height below the norm so the lines are all scrunched together, making it hard for the reader to decipher it. What is this obsession with scrunching lines of text together??? I saw this a couple months ago on a bunch of Lord of the Rings fansites but I figured it was just an LotR phenomenom but here it is again. THE POINT OF A BLOG OR WEBSITE IS COMMUNICATION, PEOPLE. If you're going to make it deliberately difficult for people to read your blog or site, why bother to put it on the net???? (Afterthought: Upon wandering thru the top level domain site, it appears the author is an LotR fan so I guess that's where she got the line scrunching from but it's still a stupid thing.)

But anyway, I decipher the thing, it says in bold, "read the rules," so I look for a link to the rules, I look for ANY links on the page and can only find one invisible one after "This site is part of (blank area)" that leads to the main domain. So I view source and discover that the idiot author is using PNGs for all the images which are not viewable in Mozilla, only in IE. And for the icing on the cake, the author has set all links to WHITE (the page has a WHITE background) with some sort of "glow" filter which is black. Only this filter thing isn't standard or else it's not working because there's no DocType on the page at all. So in Mozilla, all the links are white on white, rendering them utterly invisible.

SHEESH.

Some people should not be allowed near an html editor or an ftp program or even Notepad!

Some of the rules on this ridiculous site:
- you need to know some sense of webdesign
- i will read through your logs to see what you write
- no typing like ThIs AnD cRaP <== it's annoying!!
- need to know a little HTML

SHEESH and SHEESH.

I'll be brutally honest and say this author's design is ANNOYING and he/she needs to learn a little MORE html, including something about standards compliance and accessibility in ALL browsers. And that "i will read through your logs to see what you write", what, is she going to grade what I say? Is she going to tell me I'm not being brutally honest?

More oddities, the title on the page has rows and rows of non-breaking spaces at the end of it. Also from the site:

      Do not take any edited graphics, HTML or ideas from this site without written consent.

Take her ideas??? Don't worry, honey, the only idea I'm taking from your site is what NOT to do when designing a page.

I'm outa here.