Month: August 2007

My idea was stupid.

C.O.C

While watching Comedians of Comedy for the 7th time I got the brilliant idea that I should contact one or two of the comedians and offer to redo their Web sites for free.

I did not follow through on this harebrained scheme.

Point Number One: I do not think these folks are easily contactable, therefore an email I send to their website catch all mail box will probably never be seen by them but by their web master who probably built the site and would not take kindly to some chick wanting to snatch it from them.

That’s really all the points I have to make.

Maria Bamford has a good site already. She doesn’t need a new one.
Zach’s is not so great but if you look at it without viewing the source(yikes) it is fine. As a famous person he doesn’t need to worry about SEO since his name is enough. He is the one I think is the most funny but the least approachable. So naturally I love him. Brian Posehen, has a site that was last updated in 2004. Well, someone stuck a badge for the movie tour on there. But that was a year ago at least. There’s a forum which seems to be used …It’s a bad site, but again he has no need for SEO. Patton has a good site. No need for me there,either. He also has a myspace which he uses.

Barry Crimmins

Then I watched the documentary about the comedy scene in Boston in the 80’s:When Stand Up Stood Out.
So I thought I’d check out Barry Crimmins’ site hoping it was awful.It is not.It is really good.I thought I could at least get his attention by saying

“Hi my name is Sion and your crazy sister Lucia used to scare the fuck out of me in the cult she ran in Dallas in the 80’s.I grew up with your nieces…how are you feeling,do you need a site re design?”

The poor man might feel guilty. Or maybe he wouldn’t.And doesn’t he look great in this picture?
My idea was silly.

Photo:Barry Crimmins

Many Thanks to Open Publish

I couldn’t say it better-although I have been trying to explain why tables for layout is bad code practice-I usually just end up babbling about some technical side-issue and end up educating nobody.

The reason I go on(and on) about other designers who use invalid code
(tables for layout devotees always use invalid code! they can’t help it since invalidity is inherent in table layouts) is because I can’t get over the fact that 100% of the sites I’ve redone had tables for layout.
These are not old sites,either.Using tables for layout is still pretty much standard practice.
It’s obvious that we just have to keep saying it over and over until people stop doing it.

This is despite the fact that any Google search on Good+Web+Design
will turn up loads of advice/tutorials on how to use html and css.

So,I wonder…why the hold-out? Is it just because no one has told these people why it’s bad? Or do they think we are just making their lives harder by trying to force a new practice on them? Is it just easier to do what you have always done because it “works”? My confusion over why people still bang out these crappy pages(it’s 2007!) is the same as my confusion over why some people would throw their trash on the ground when they are just 2 feet away from a trash can!

The answer may well be all of the above or it may be that they do not know WHY they need to learn better coding-since all we meanies do is rant and turn red in the face or ridicule or whatever.So here is a site that actually explains it.Yay.

Tables to CSS

Pownced

I am Pownced. Got 6 invites. Should I save them for clients or should I give them to people who want them? My friends aren’t really interested in internet type stuff. So, if you want a Pownce invite let me know…