Subj : BACK IN BUSINESS
To   : WAYNE CHIRNSIDE
From : CHARLES ANGELICH
Date : Tue Feb 15 2005 03:33 pm

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Hello Wayne - 

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

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

I have 'viewed source' to find the location of the page and
then fabricated a direct link but that's usually more effort
than it's worth. 

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

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

--8<--cut 

->> 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). 

WC> I'm impressed with your style. 

Thank you. :-) 

WC> I think the commercial "webmasters" are out of touch with
WC> their target audience. 

In many many ways they are out of touch. Not unlike the other
'haves' being out of touch with the 'have nots'. People who
earn a living with their computers can justify spending what it
costs to have the latest and greatest with a cable connect and
21" monitors. They just don't 'experience' the same WWW the
rest of the world sees. 

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

WC> AOL user types? 

Users and those who purchase websites. 

->> 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'.

WC> I've an X button in Mozilla. 

I have 'X' buttons in my browsers but embedded QuickTime (for
instance) won't break if it seems it will take too long.
Websites should show the _size_ of the video, music file, etc.
next to the link so that us poor dialup users can run away from
those that are overly large. :-) 

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