[thelist] site check: brownecenter.com

Rob Sylvan rsylvan at cdtmicrographics.com
Tue Sep 10 12:06:10 CDT 2002


Greetings,

I could use some help.

I've been volunteering my time for a number of years to do the maintenance
on a website for a great organization. The website had been just a pretty
simple online brochure, in need of updating, but served its purpose.
Recently the organization decided to get all of their marketing materials in
sync and give the site a complete redesign. I agreed that this was long
overdue and offered to help any way that I could. They decided to have the
organization that was doing their print materials to also do the site
redesign. I'm pretty periphery these days and just wished them the best and
looked forward to the new design.

Well, it just went live. I can't believe what they did.

Since they would still like for me to do the maintenance for the site, and
they are all very dear people, I'd like to prepare an assessment of sorts of
what I see wrong with this new design.
Where I need help is providing the rationale for why things are bad. As an
example I'll tell you that *all* of the text on the site is done as graphics
(yes, all of it). I know this is bad because people can't resize it, you
can't copy and paste it, it will be a real pain to update, etc. But what I'd
like to give them is a real industry rationale for why this is bad, not just
my opinion so that maybe they can make some good decisions about fixing the
worst offenders. I also have no idea how it displays on Macs or *nix boxes.
Any opinions/suggestions and thoughts are greatly appreciated.
The site is brownecenter.com
TIA,
Rob




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