This Is All Too True

[dr_phil_physics]

Once Again XKCD Proves Itself Exactly Right

How many times have I run into this on so many university and college websites?



This.

Dr. Phil

Comments

[steve-buchheit.livejournal.com]

That's not limited to university websites, sadly. Fighting my own battle with "we want to say" and me responding, "our customers don't care, they want the product info, let's make that the MAJORITY of our site."

Amen!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. This is the downside of Web 2.0 or whatever; online sites in the age of dial-up BBS and the early years of the Internet may have been ugly, but they were functional. Functional enough that even when you didn't see what you were looking for at first, you could often deduce where it would be from the structure of an address or directory.

These days? Sure, campus (and business and government) sites are pretty, but if you want useful information it's either absent or buried in some offshoot of a submenu in a sidebar.

Arrgh!

-Eric (not really anonymous)