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Bitter? Not me...

So, I go to newmedia.com because I want to grab an article in which I was quoted to put in my links collection. This site is a nightmare. If you do want to read what I said you can search for women.com and click on the article, "What Do Women Really Want?" by Kathleen Hildenbrand.

Well, that's how I managed to find it.

The site uses layers, and is buggy in that special way only client-side code can be. Not only can I not bookmark the article, nor link to it, when I search for wodtke, then women.com, it keeps giving me the search results for wodtke. I have to close the browser and reopen it to get it to let me search for women.com.
Also, if you don't have a big enough browser window, then tough luck. There is no scrolling in these small layers, and so I couldn't hit the search button without stretching my browser window bigger... I hesitate to think what happens to someone who has only a 640x480 resolution- I surf at 1024. When reading an article, I can't use the scroller on my mouse. I have to hover over the little carrot to have it scroll. Which is does until it hits (what I think are) the last couple sentences, then it stops scrolling. I never do read the last two or three sentences on a page.

But the topper is the fact that their lead design story is on the value of usability testing... perhaps they might practice as they preach?

Posted at June 04, 2000 11:04 PM

 

 

 

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