|   What yahoo came up with this design? | JoeW
Jun 27, 2002 7:43 PM | | Is this a naysayer joke? I understand that they believe blind listening is more revealing than sighted listening.
But....
Blind reading???????
(hint for webmaster: You want white text with a black background)
Last time I compared, a web designer makes about 3x what a carpenter makes. If a carpenter had made one third of this error, your roof would be below your feet - if you were fortunate enough to be away for the collapse.
Ahh...The information age. Point and click, or perhaps, point and blame. |
| re: What yahoo came up with this design? | Spiky
Jun 28, 2002 7:18 AM | | First, I think this error is obnoxious. About the only thing to do is select text to read anything.
However, I have to say that attacking a web designer in this way is pretty poor taste. You obviously have no clue about carpentry or web design and your comments are sure to piss off lots and lots of people. They probably got hacked or somebody made a small error in the standard html for the site. Try writing a polite email instead of a stupid post in the forum. |
| re: What yahoo came up with this design? | GCM
Jun 28, 2002 9:20 AM | | No, for once JoeW is correct. I pretty much gave up on this site after the last redesign as it would take 15 minutes or so for a page to load, if it would load at all. I'm finally able to get in, but now everything's black.
This site has had more than its share of f&#k ups and they ought to test it a little before springing it on the unsuspecting community. |
| re: What yahoo came up with this design? | mtrycrafts
Jun 28, 2002 10:05 AM | | b Is this a naysayer joke? I understand that they believe blind listening is more revealing than sighted listening.
Yes, of course.
B But....
Blind reading???????
Try brail. |
| And now for max wierdness... | FLZapped
Jun 28, 2002 10:05 AM | | I had the problem at work yesterday. Went home and it was OK.
Came back to work and it was bad. Both on IE 5.5 and Netscape 6.2...
So for kicks and grins, I changed my PC's wallpaper back to what it was since I changed it a couple days ago. POOF! All is okay.
So for even more kicks and grins, I went back to my new wallpaper just to see if I could "break" it again, well, so far, everything is okay.....
Go figure.
I looked through the page source and didn't see anything obvious, although I wonder about some of the spare forward and back slashes that appear in certain place within various parameter brackets.
-Bruce |
| And now for max wierdness... | JoeW
Jun 29, 2002 9:25 PM | | I dont use wallpaper on my machine, so its not that.
It is cleared up now, and posts, threads, and whatnot are readable.
Contrary to Spikey's belief about me, I have been a carpenter and a web designer.
Dark type on a black background seems worthy of the ridicule I invested. I mean, did they *even* look at it?
mtry suggested braille, but my mouse hates those bumps. |
| And now for max wierdness... | mtrycrafts
Jun 30, 2002 10:58 AM | | b I have been a carpenter
Ah, do you use exotic measuroing tapes? Plumb bobs? More accurate? Or is that important? Exotic squares? Use a lead pencil to mark your distances? There goes the accuracy, or does it matter. YOu think water levels work well? After all, it dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Must be way obsolete.
b mtry suggested braille, but my mouse hates those bumps
Ah, you read many of my posts:) Life is challenging. |
| And now for max wierdness... | JoeW
Jun 30, 2002 9:12 PM | | >Ah, do you use exotic measuroing tapes?
I have the luxury of dealing the strictly measurable. It either fits or it does not.
>Plumb bobs?
When needed, there is no simple alternative.
>Exotic squares?
You mean 'speed squares'? All the time.
>Use a lead pencil to mark your distances? There goes the accuracy, or does it matter.Use a lead pencil to mark your distances? There goes the accuracy, or does it matter.
You are going goony here. Yes, I use lead pencils. The idea of making a mark is that you understand it when it is time to cut. I deal in */64" often enough to understand the thickness of a pencil line |
| And now for max wierdness... | mtrycrafts
Jul 1, 2002 8:16 PM | | b I have the luxury of dealing the strictly measurable. It either fits or it does not.
In carpentry? Give me a break. You make it fit, use a lager hammer.
b You mean 'speed squares'? All the time.
Or framing squares. You mean the plastic is not as accurate?
b I deal in */64"
Not with pencils, unless constantly sharpened, on hard wood.
/64th where? In automated machine cuts? |
| And now for max wierdness... | JoeW
Jul 2, 2002 10:00 PM | | >In carpentry? Give me a break. You make it fit, use a lager hammer.
A lager hammer? Funny. It goes much faster and requires a lot less effort is you simply cut the board to the proper size.
>Or framing squares. You mean the plastic is not as accurate?
What planet are you staging this attack from? I've not seen any plastic framing squares. I've seen many plastic speed squares.
>Not with pencils, unless constantly sharpened, on hard wood.
The hardness of the wood has no effect on the accuracy of the mark.
This is silliness. |
| The blackout was intended only for the wirenut posts ... | Richard Greene
Jun 28, 2002 11:03 AM | | Mtry sent the webmaster $10 with instructions to black out the "wirenut" posts for one day ... but the webmaster couldn't figure out whether the naysayers or golden ears were the true wirenuts ... so he blacked out all the posts. |
| The blackout was intended only for the wirenut posts ... | mtrycrafts
Jun 29, 2002 5:35 PM | | He wanted more, much more. Someone must have interceeded and he lowerd the price. |
| The blackout was intended only for the wirenut posts ... | JoeW
Jun 29, 2002 9:28 PM | | So thats how he spells 'moderation' :) |
| re: What yahoo came up with this design? | Spiky
Jul 1, 2002 11:09 AM | | Ok, sorry if I was too hard on Joe. But the carpenters I know do pretty well. Only management gets the big bucks in web design.
But do all you folks really think someone intentionally changed the site to black on black? I'm sure it was just an error that got fixed relatively quickly. |
| Where do you get your info? | sofsoldier
Jul 2, 2002 9:00 AM | | We designers do not make that much - web programmers make more. The current market problems with tech only allow for the majority of programmers making 50 to 60k a year. Carpenters are union, and make a very nice salary. The webmaster is usually some customer service rep who reads the e-mail.
New trendy web code used by various people cause incompatibilities with certain browsers, and so on.
How do I know? My wife is a web programmer, specializing in the lost are of pure HTML coding.
:) |
| Correction | sofsoldier
Jul 2, 2002 9:03 AM | | "How do I know? My wife is a web programmer, specializing in the lost are of pure HTML coding."
That would be lost art of pure HTML coding.
And yes, she still has a job. Check out her work at www.caligari.com
:) |
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