I am a webmaster for a living. I know my page doesn't really reflect that, but I wanted something simple that I could simply have for my friends to keep tabs on me. That's how it started. I've only changed it twice in the past year. I should change it more often, but I'd rather spend my time writing and doing a little editing. Okay, very little, but some editing.
At this point, I need to take all the pregnancy stuff, bundle it and archive it. I figure it's useful to the diabetics who want to see it and I'll leave an archive link to that part of my life. I just haven't gotten that far along. Sue me. I've got a life that involves 3 other people with whom I share a fair number of interdependencies and there's the being diabetic thing, that I've got to keep tabs on.
But I remember the net before the web existed. I remember that we waited for the web in abject trepidation. When HTML came along, I had to go look at sites and figure out how to write it. Then, I figured out how to. And then as time progressed, my ability to design in HTML progressed also.
I have some terminal beefs, however, about stuff I see out there on the net.
- Sites that have counters on the top of the page. Why do you need a counter that people can see unless you want people to know just how damned popular you are? I keep invisible counters on my small page and one visible one on my main page, so I know how I'm doing and if my stuff's getting read. I figure if it's not benefitting anyone then, I should simply stop, so I keep tabs.
- Sites that use improper graphics are such a big giant pain in the ass. Improper is kind of a broad term to mean sites that use unnecessarily huge graphics, png's that don't load or just shitty quality graphics that add little to the page.
- Stupid flash files. Stupid flash files are things where you have to run your mouse over the top of the damned buttons to know where the damned button goes and when you move your mouse to the next button, you have to remember where the previous buttons led to. Pepsi did one of these for a while. I wished their webmaster a deep cleansing enema.This site has some prime examples of this.
- Redundant linkages. Sites that have three ways to get to the same thing from the front page are simply staffed by webmasters with a death wish. The worst offenders are governmental sites. There's always some stupid bigwig somewhere that wants to torture the public with whatever their "hot" item of the week is.
- Hoaxes. Lord, the urban legends abound. I just had a friend tell me that aspartame converts into formeldehyde and formic acid. I started looking around for verification of this and found this article and several like it on the net. I was very bummed at the prospect of giving up my diet soda and the caffeine therein. The whole idea of torturing my tummy with coffee wasn't too appealing either.
I know there's more. I'll remember about it later.
One other thing? I wanted to know if people would like a notify list for this site because I do update somewhat sporadically. If you would, please email me.
