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

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

Can we send this to my son's university? It takes 5 screens to get to the financial aid page.

[laurie-gail.livejournal.com]

Brilliant Dr. Phil, brilliant.

And though I'm over here in eastern Michigan, I have you western Michigan folks in my thoughts as you deal with your oil spill. Nasty stuff.

[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."

[mgsmurf.livejournal.com]

That's so true. Actually I think a lot of these links are buried at the bottom and hard to find place on my college's website. Luckily the intraweb for staff/faculty on campus is better managed.

[wendyb-09.livejournal.com]

My peeve is hosiptal, doctor's offices and various court websites.

If I'm on their site, I want one thing...contact information. My needs are simple - how do I get client medical records, file various things, contact the judge's paralegal directly. I need one phone number or one email address. The contact us page doesn't always have that!!

Do like the school one though, last year this time I was researching future tuition, room & board for a sports agent, so he knew how much to ask for in scholarship money for MLB draft picks. Heaven forbid that information should all be on one page...

[nerwengreen.livejournal.com]

Heh, reminds me of my last two ISP pages, Comcast and Bellsouth. Both have these glitzy ADHD-inspired flashy news type fronts, and it takes some looking around to figure out how to get to your account info.

In the case of Bellsouth, they actually had three slightly different useless fronts overlaid on top of each other, with links that crossed over to each other. Even the phone reps couldn't find anything in it.