Thursday, August 13, 2009

Johnny's gotta rant that has nothing to do with any of you

You can just skip this this is aimed at the people who surf the web looking for complaints about their particular company or brand.

The Detroit Free Press updated their page today, as they seemingly do every 6 months or so. The last time they did it the javascript was FUBAR for those of us web surfers. This time Johnny wants to know if you people who handle such things did ANY kind of testing for those of us who might use an RSS reader to get our news. If your company did research to decide we absolutely couldn't live without yet another drab and dreary update to your site did you even test it with various RSS readers? It's quite apparent the answer is NO. The actual story page hides in soooo nicely behind the folders/articles option.

REALLY nice Job Free Press, seriously. Classic. Are your users the testers? If they are just come out and say so. "We at the Detroit Free Press just put out updates and we then fix things as angry users contact us."

Johnny made quite good living for a long time and won some awards in doing web design and page layouts a while back, the kind the Free Press can't seem to get together. He's one of the guys who KNOWS when you've messed up and Detroit Free Press, you've really messed this one up and so here's your free feedback.

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