tangled web

[j4]

I redesigned one of our worst web pages and made it look like a real web page. Go me. (Only on dev server at the moment, so I can't show you. You'll just have to believe me.)

Of course, now all I have to do is persuade the relevant people to ACTUALLY PRODUCE THE FUCKING INFORMATION which will slot into the new sexed-up site. And to discard the "news" bulletins from THREE FUCKING YEARS AGO so we don't have to keep updating dead links in pages which were NEVER ACTUALLY USEFUL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Or, in the meantime, I could SUCK BLOOD OUT OF A STONE, just for a bit of light relief.

Or mend my shift key. Ha.

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[j4.livejournal.com]

Everyone up there wants their little bit of information to go on the front page, in huge bold text, flashing.

God, tell me about it. The people whose front page I just hacked up this afternoon were the ones who, a few weeks ago, sent us a paragraph of info "to go in a box-out on the homepage". They already have a main menu, a sidebar, and a big box-out on the homepage. I said "there's no room. Why can't it just go in, like, the relevant section for this information on the website?" The answer was "It's got to go on the homepage, because nobody goes past the homepage." AAAAAGGGGH DIE DIE DIE.

Maybe dancing hamsters are the answer.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Funny how useless people can render a body of useful information unusable, and therefore useless. No matter what technical and design skills are brought to bear on their projects.

Said Nile, who recently wrote superb user documentation and a usability guide to unusable software.