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azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-08 11:15 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2002-11-08 11:15 pm
The Good, and the Ugly: website reviews for Web Developement
http://www.livejournal.com is a good website that I use every day.
Livejournal is more than just a pretty website: it provides a service, at varying rates: free, nearly free, reasonable, and rather expensive but permanent. Finding most features on their website is geek-intuitive, though it can prove frustrating for civillians. As Livejournal is an online journal host, the user-input content ranges from excellent to below the depths of horror. LJ's main page features a nice sidebar with commonly used links, a color scheme that does not actively assault the eyes, a prominently-placed help link, and a lack of huge images to download. There are options to view the site in the language of the user's choice.
http: /www.angelfire.com/*/*/index.html is a personal webpage designed by this guy. [link removed for privacy, as this is a LJ-er, although not one on my friends list.]
Note the run-time error (appears in my browser, Internet Explorer 6) on the main page. Well, the entry page. Gets mighty old, having an entry page. The graphics on the *real* main page take a while to load, even with my DSL connection. Some of the unconventional spellings are intentional; some are not, and are distracting to the user. The background is distracting beneath the greenish text. Poking some of the buttons (which are fortunately obvious to click on) I find that on the writings page, the poetry is jumbled onto the page in a way that is distracting to the eye, and not separated from each other. The part about this page that makes it stick out in my mind as horrible, however, is the little letters trailing after the cursor.
Livejournal is more than just a pretty website: it provides a service, at varying rates: free, nearly free, reasonable, and rather expensive but permanent. Finding most features on their website is geek-intuitive, though it can prove frustrating for civillians. As Livejournal is an online journal host, the user-input content ranges from excellent to below the depths of horror. LJ's main page features a nice sidebar with commonly used links, a color scheme that does not actively assault the eyes, a prominently-placed help link, and a lack of huge images to download. There are options to view the site in the language of the user's choice.
http: /www.angelfire.com/*/*/index.html is a personal webpage designed by this guy. [link removed for privacy, as this is a LJ-er, although not one on my friends list.]
Note the run-time error (appears in my browser, Internet Explorer 6) on the main page. Well, the entry page. Gets mighty old, having an entry page. The graphics on the *real* main page take a while to load, even with my DSL connection. Some of the unconventional spellings are intentional; some are not, and are distracting to the user. The background is distracting beneath the greenish text. Poking some of the buttons (which are fortunately obvious to click on) I find that on the writings page, the poetry is jumbled onto the page in a way that is distracting to the eye, and not separated from each other. The part about this page that makes it stick out in my mind as horrible, however, is the little letters trailing after the cursor.