Why are the big super-slick Internet-presence
companies so obtuse about designing their Websites? They all
want to have their fancy, sixteen million color logo at the top of the
page, so that it locks up the viewer's browser while taking eight
minutes to download. No wonder everyone goes surfing with their
graphics turned off! After the viewer has gotten burned and been
forced to abort a few transfers, s/he learns not to squander
his/her connect time while the Sta-Puft man gets around
to filling up the screen...
Wouldn't
it be more thoughtful to treat the viewer with some courtesy, and
to perceive of them as a wonderful person who's out there taking
the time to look at a blatant display of corporate egoism (let
the trumpets sound, let the people cheer, let the banners unfurl,
for WE ARE HERE!)? Is it so hard to give those teeming masses
huddled at their screens a scrap of content or a crust of something
mildly interesting to read while they're waiting for the images to form
below? Imagine what the W³ could be if everyone were treated
with respect and care, and Website designers refrained from wasting
anybody's time. Hallelujah!
Stop
procrastinetting! Change your life, Webster, and
take the pledge right along with the four of
us:
"I
swear that I will provide sufficient reading material at the top of
my pages so that the unsuspecting Websurfer will be entertained
long enough (even at fourteen-point-four) to allow any and all
images (gif and lowly jpeg alike) to be absolutely and thoroughly
downloaded.
Amen."
Brothers and
sisters,
you've been
HEALED!
Now you're a sworn Webmaster of your
domain...
(My friend Bert likes to bring me back down
to earth with this:"Alan, you've been playing with words again, haven't you...?!") ~ Validate this page=>
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