[thelist] subject switch: websitesthatsuck.com [was Swish...> Critiques]

Daniel E. Boen dan at the-plate.com
Sat Jul 14 22:48:09 CDT 2001


rudy7/14/01 10:16 PMr937 at interlog.com

>> This might be going off the path a bit but...
> 
> hi daniel
> 
> whenever you feel that a post might be a bit offtopic (and a rant often
> qualifies), please include a web development tip
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>> Two words: Baby Boomers.
> 
> hold on there, sonny, them's fightin words

;^)

Don't worry Rudy, it's Saturday night.  I'm 34 and not far away from
boomerdom.  Actually, Flanders reminds me of a 97 year old man ranting about
how in the good old days his gradeschool teacher taught math by using a
stick in the sand - much older than a baby boomer.

> 
> in any case, webpagesthatsuck.com (note correct domain name) isn't anywhere
> close to being as awful as you suggest -- and there's no denying that his
> *concept* (pointing out design mistakes) is a good one

Absolutely.  It's just that he's such a blowhard about the subject, and too
often I think his "critiques" are more cranks directed at designers wanting
to do something different - he's been dissing the navigation on the VW site
lately, and completely misses the point of their esoteric navigation -
they're stressing cool design in their cars, and the site's rather
conservative innovations pick up on that theme.   Flanders slams it in what
can only be termed as flaming language on his site, as he does everything
else that he can't comprehend. That's what fries my chicken about his whole
deal.  Pointing out the mistakes without depantsing the designers - with
some measure of politeness, and a measure of respect for innovative design,
or even design for design's sake - would be preferrable.  He rags on sites
that are meant to be arty, because, I think, he's a philistine.

will tip tag in future, thank you.




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> <tip>
> tables will validate xhtml strict -- you can't use many attributes, though
> (luckily, width="xx%" is still okay)
> </tip>
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> <tip>
> watch out for <table width="100%"> inside a div to which you have applied
> margin or padding -- some browsers will make the table as wide as the
> window, and thus slop over outside your div
> </tip>
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> rudy
> http://rudy.ca/
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