Subj : BACK IN BUSINESS
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
Date : Tue Feb 15 2005 08:04 am

-> WC> screen loads Blank so you hit reload and it's STILL blank,
-> WC> now hit back one URL and the summery of my month's online
-> WC> usage finally appears. Click details and it says "message
-> WC> sent to my e-mail address" but that hasn't worked since
-> WC> it's been _improved_. Oh yeah, left out the login step. 

-> I try to analyze the various URLs and find a way to bookmark
-> the exact page(s) I want or at least get closer to the page I
-> want. :-) 

Closer maybe but the previous two pages won't bookmark
so that they'll load.

-> WC> Oh yeah this is SOOO much better than the old "online hours
-> WC> manager" right on the old GTE home page before it became
-> WC> Verizon ISP :-( Add to this they are always moving stuff
-> WC> around so you burn time just finding it and if you find it
-> WC> it's often "under construction for improvement" :-( 

-> WC> Makes you want to just strangle someone. 

-> Microsoft does this same thing. I think that web-weenies
-> (webmasters) believe that a static website with few changes to
-> the layout is 'old fashioned' and that the arrangement and
-> design must change multiple times each year to appear
-> new/hip/whatever? 

-> There are Microsoft support pages I have been too many times
-> that I cannot find recently even though I believe they are
-> there somewhere, the question is how to find them _again_? 

Annoying.

-> I've assisted webmasters who needed to create commercial
-> websites of 100s of pages and tried to persuade them to be
-> reasonable about load times and simplify navigation but they
-> are young and believe they must use everything but the kitchen
-> sink to impress the customer(s).      

I'm impressed with your style.
I think the commercial "webmasters" are out of touch with 
their target audience.

-> It is also true that the
-> customers do make unreasonable demands wanting their website to
-> look like a beer commercial on TV.

AOL user types? 

-> I would be content with a web browser that could drop a URL
-> _immediately_ when I hit the 'X' rather than get hung up trying
-> to download all of the graphics/sound and refuse to 'let go' of
-> that bandwidth and processor cycles. I have, in frustration,
-> had to use task manager to KILL the browser rather than wait
-> out shutting down that 'window'. 
 
I've an X button in Mozilla.
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