What an eye opening week I’ve had.<\/p>\n
I’ve discovered that the Webmaster for the company I work for does not give one frikkin toss about web standards and has been designing one of our division’s web site using Dreamweaver’s Properties Drop Down Menu Window.<\/p>\n
(If you’re not HTML-literate, I suggest that you skip this post, it might get a bit too technical. Why not visit one of my outbound links at the side there and come back when this post is done?)<\/p>\n
For those of you familiar with Dreamweaver, you know that it magically creates CSS tags on the fly! Fine and dandy if you dont already have an external CSS page linked to the page you’re amending\/editing. Which he’s been doing. Our webmaster is behaving exactly like some college dude that comes home and spreads all his stuff all over the frikkin apartment. Let me show you:<\/p>\n
<html><head>
\n<!– #BeginEditable “doctitle” –>
\n<title>My Slave Driving Job Inc.<\/title><br><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHere we see our intrepid Webmaster using a line break tag within HEAD tag. <sarcasm>Sheer brilliance. <\/sarcasm> I dont know what he thought would happen…widen the title bar on the browser?<\/p>\n
\/\/ End –><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Look deeply inside this Javascript “hide from old browsers” comment tag, still nested within the HEAD tags. See that poor little orphan closing BOLD tag? Weep with me people. Its all alone! And yes, it did screw up the page royally.<\/p>\n
The next is a doozy:<\/p>\n
<TD> <span class=”formtext”><font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″>*Province\/State<\/font><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font><\/span><span class=”style6″><font color=”#000066″>
\n<font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″>
\n<font color=”#000066″>:<\/font><\/font><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/span>
\n<font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″><font color=”#000066″>
\n<font color=”#000066″><\/font><\/font><span class=”style2″>
\n<b><b><b><font color=”#000066″><b><font color=”#000066″><br><\/p>\nVarious FORM information…<\/em><\/p>\n
<\/font><\/b><\/font><\/b> <\/b><\/b><\/span><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/td><\/p><\/blockquote>\nGaze upon the horror is that is Dreamweaver mangling code beyond recognition! Look as a Webmaster completely turns his back upon web standards, good code and neatness for the sake of “getting it done”. Weep with me as we think of the poor slob who will be stuck cleaning up after his thoughtless stream of HTML diarrhea.<\/p>\n
You are looking at our Webmaster’s attitude in code form right there. This is what I have had to put up with all week. I am on the verge of saying full on to his face: “If you dont like your job then fuck off.”<\/p>\n
Thing is, I am unsure if he is doing this because he doesn’t know better or he’s a lazy slob. He’s fresh out of Media school and I think they soaked him for his tuition. What school would allow this past their doors into the working world? DeVry?! Academy of Design? When I showed him this code he snorted and said: “I think there’s a spelling error in there too, Ted.” and turned away. Which makes me believe he’s a slob.<\/p>\n
But today. Oh today. I learned today that he allowed one of our divisions’ websites to link to our main corporate site within it’s frameset<\/em>…<\/p>\n
GASP!<\/strong><\/p>\n
Think about it. You’re walking into Sears and within the first set of doors is another set of doors into a Dollar store. Would you not get confused and leave? I am not suprised to see the stats for the site are hovering around 10 to 20 seconds in lenght of stay. Effectively, the site is confusing the hell out of visitors and they are not booking online at all. No wonder. The trust between the company and visitor is ruined within seconds when they see a new website open up under the banner of the site they are currently in. It says to the guest “This site is poorly coded, and we don’t care.” Would you hand over your credit card number to these people?<\/p>\n
So I am asked to redesign this site. Looks like I have a bit of work in front of me.<\/p>\n
Damn. And I just got Half Life 2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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