Useless is as useless does.

has anyone here actually personally designed a message board, or
sales-style website?



I'm talking about websites beyond your simple HTML "me" page, or a
myspace profile. Something like PFB. Or ebay, or a message board
where you have to have login data?


We had to do them in my advanced web design class. Believe me it is
NOT as easy as it looks.

And you do it all yourself, no teams of coders just one person.


There's a lot of work involved. It's not just barfing some code on a
page and calling it a website. It took a lot of effort just to make a
simple message board where users could log in, edit their posts,
search for posts, look for posts under topics etc, and log out.

Plus we had to include at least two complex codes - mine included
figuring out how to jerry rig my page to have avatars show up. I
ended up designing code that stripped the avatar file of all
information and changing the file name to the name of the user only
(no extension).

weird but hey it worked.



now imagine that on a big scale... say, writing code for an entire
store where you have to tie in inventory data, credit card security,
etc.



sure it's easy to just say "they're dumbos cos this didn't work well
for me" but that's a bit of an overreaction.

I agree with the letter writer 100%. This is an ENORMOUS problem on
the Web and the IT community needs to take responsibility for it and
clean it up ASAP.

Web Masters are easily the most useless, brainless idiots currently
alive on our planet.

I have the same issue with idiotic Yahoo email. I am quicker than my
computer...and the servers that underlie my web connection. As a
result, I am punished each and every day I log online as the idiot IT
system requires that the entire page load up (ads and all) before I
can do anything. So, each email delays me by about 30 seconds while it
paints up. Considering I get about 120 emails a day, I lose about AN
HOUR of free time each and every day due to this IT slow-moving
idiocy.

This shows IGNORANCE and a LACK OF CONCERN by IT people towards the
free time of their users/customers and a lack of concern twoards the
level of happiness with their work output that their users have.

It'd be nice if the federal govt. would pass a bill requiring that
these irritations be minimized. Each penalty could involve an
assessment against the offending IT company for $1 K per violation. I
bet THAT'D get the crap to stop immediately! After all, the unlimited
greed of most businesses would ensure they'd clean up their slow
garbage issues just to avoid having to go bankrupt from fees for slow
service.

I bet advertisers forced this change...because fast folks like myself
were churning through their email quickly, efficiently and without
even glancing at their dumb ads. Why do these advertising dopes think
that by forcing us to slow down...that we're actually going to have a
positive view of their firm or even buy something through the ad?

Yeah, RIGHT. What I'VE done (and I bet the letter writer and most
others irked by this problem are also doing) is mentally catalog who
advertises in Yahoo email so I can boycott them and never buy anything
from them ever again....as well as bad-mouth them to whoever will
listen!

Just jumped over to firefox and the Macy's site loaded faster than
with Windows. I have both loaded, because sometimes it is better to
use Firefox. As for the other, maybe.... well I just don't know, not
that computer savvy.