Statement
Posted on October 22, 2003 @ 10:31 in General
Hello. Please take note of the following if you happen to have a website, weblog, or any other form of presence on the Net:
I generally don't use Microsoft Internet Explorer but another fine, standards compliant browser. When I visit your website and it looks like a mess* — e.g. text and images overlap in unintended and unartistic ways, your search box is unaccessible because it hides behind some graphic, or the body of your site is set in tiny illegible red type on a purple background — I don't blame my browser, but I blame you. I will also immediately close the browser window that holds your website and mentally mark it as no-go area. If you're trying to sell stuff on the Net, you've lost a customer and if you're looking for an audience, you've lost a reader. If you're okay with that, no hard feelings, but don't expect to see me around again. It's 2003, wake up and smell the coffee. Thank you.
* Please note that I'm not talking about small errors or problems in otherwise soundly designed websites, but about really horifically crappy websites and commercial websites that manage to make a core element such as the search box inaccessible, and no, I'm not naming names.
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