UGH! New KCStar.com site . . .

[Fowler, Chris]

Submitted to feedback @ kcstar.com:

I've multiple problems with this site. Pages not loading, ridiculous
loadtimes, etc. There's enough javascript to choke a horse. As a web
developer I have to consider the user-experience as a major part of the
architecture. This site is painful to use. A faster connection/server might
help but it looks like code-bloat to me. When you get ready to develop a
site that works for you instead of against you consider a professional web
company.

Incidentally, the entire message is submitted on the querystring. These guys
are morons.

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Duane Attaway
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 12:45 PM
To: ndr
Cc: Bradley Miller; kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Re: UGH! New KCStar.com site . . .

They seem to be down or unreachable to me...oh, there it loads instantly
after a minute of waiting!

Here it is under Netscape 4.78:

Very interesting page source with "massive"  whitespace and it is
unusually large, mostly javascript.  Too bad I have it turned off so I
don't see the usefullness of all that crap.  Just reading the text,
everything seems to format properly.  Seems good to me.  They must be 
experimenting "live."

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, ndr wrote:

> 
> I had no problems pulling it up under Netscape 4.75, Mozilla, and Opera
> under Solaris and under Netscape 4.78, Mozilla, and IE 5 under Win 2k.