I can see what they were aiming for in the design spec (classic/simple), but someone's missed the mark quite spectacularly there (busy/confusing). I've only got up to chapter 4 in my CSS book and even I think that's shamefully bad form for a website aimed at intelligent readers. To be fair though it does say 'Beta' up the top there, camouflaged in the messy header.
As for the content, it seems to be watering things down for us technologically-inferior women folk - again, a humourous/casual approach (eg weather forecast in terms of how it will affect my hairstyle) would be fine if a) the humour was funny instead of patronising b) there was some actual content underneath the humour. I mean, the 'Luxury Cockroach' story is a 200-word anecdote of so little relevance to my life (or indeed, anyone else's) that I'd rather have spent my valuable 30 seconds reading the 'Funny Old World' section in the Metro. The political articles aren't much better - the opinion piece on Barack Obama having been photographed in Somali dress is ill-informed bordering on offensive, and EVEN WORSE, hasn't been sub-edited. >:[
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Date: 2008-03-22 03:20 pm (UTC)As for the content, it seems to be watering things down for us technologically-inferior women folk - again, a humourous/casual approach (eg weather forecast in terms of how it will affect my hairstyle) would be fine if a) the humour was funny instead of patronising b) there was some actual content underneath the humour. I mean, the 'Luxury Cockroach' story is a 200-word anecdote of so little relevance to my life (or indeed, anyone else's) that I'd rather have spent my valuable 30 seconds reading the 'Funny Old World' section in the Metro. The political articles aren't much better - the opinion piece on Barack Obama having been photographed in Somali dress is ill-informed bordering on offensive, and EVEN WORSE, hasn't been sub-edited. >:[