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Does everything suck?
Am I really turning into a bitter old man? Today's rant is websites, in particular those that do product reviews. I'm reading one at the moment, of a Media Center build from a large tech/hardware site, where they are explaining each piece of equipment going into the machine. The trouble is, each piece (case, graphics card, disc, etc) is a separate page, but the description only takes two paragraphs, with a small picture. So a quick read of a paragraph or two and I have to click the Next button for another short page. The total length of the page is three times as long as the review, but consists of menus, links to other articles, top tips, adverts, etc. It's just a really congested page, which doesn't make best use of the space for the article. Of course, that's not really what the site is about, as it's really just a repository for adverts, which is probably the only way it makes money, but still, it's not an enjoyable experience to use. While I understand the economics of needing adverts, what really worries me is that you see this sort of thing on sites without adverts. It's the increasingly short attention span pushed into us by those in the MTV generation. How do these people cope with reading books? Maybe they don't.
posted on Sunday, December 04, 2005 12:17 PM Print
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