[thelist] RE: thelist digest, Vol 1 #1044 - 25 msgs

Gurpreet Singh gsingh at Adobe.COM
Tue Jan 23 13:41:44 CST 2001


Hi,

A bit of digression here:

On reading this mail I went to check the www.zdnn.com website and was
surprised that even such high profile site could do such a strange mistake.
They have used an image with size 1x1 for the dark blue background. As a
result the refresh is very CPU intensive - Just try doing Alt-Tab from the
www.zdnn.com main page to another window and back - you can see the page
getting painted dark blue (I work on 670 MHz pentium III) I didn't
understand the point in using the image in the first place.

gps



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Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:22:30 -0600
From: "Daniel J. Cody" <djc at starkmedia.com>
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] News.com gets a facelift
Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org

Madhu -

Do you know if they're still using Vingette as their CMS?(or was it
something else) Judging by the URL's it still looks that way..

Couple things I noticed..

The random banner ad placement is lame. When I go to a site day after
day to get quick headlines, my eye's get trained to jump to one spot on
the page.. That banner fucks all that up. I imagine the reason they did
it is so the marketing folks could say,

"Well your banner ads will now get 34.3% more click throughs due to our
patented "Banner ad mover randomizer technology" because the users can't
just choose to ignore the top half the page anymore! They'll have to pay
*attention* to what they're trying to ignore, and as a consiquence,
they'll see your ad!!"

also, as someone else mentioned, a couple things don't line up correctly
in mozilla .7

the site does look a lot cleaner though from a design perspective,
smaller uses of the cnet yellow make that possible.

www.zdnn.com also redesigned their site, and its pretty close to the new
cnet one.. which i would expect after their merger i guess..

.djc.

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