site design

Just saw a new example of how not to design. I have a subscription to an
online magazine "Practicing Oil Analysis", and the pages open in a frame of a
fixed size. It allows shrinking and increasing text size within the framed
area and dozen of cute options, but there is no way to see the bottom of the
page without closing the task bar, and without getting to the bottom, you can't
get to the corner to shrink the frame. I don't know if it is reading my 1280 x
800 screen and assuming it can use it all, but it certainly is stupid.

Also pretty bad that the frame and top controls are much wider than any page
content, so it takes up much more real estate than it needs.

funny that their old page still runs (www.practicingoilanalysis.com) and works
fine (although basic). The new fancy site (http://poa.gotsm.com) has the
problems when you go to the individual pages. (and probably paid a bundle to
"improve" it.


Richard Widman
www.widman.biz
Bolivia