pititful.

By jp 29 Jun 2001

so our alma matter finally updated the “award winning Bates College website”, or as anders once called it, the “six-year old award winning website”.

pathetic.

you know, given the amount of money they spent tearing up the entire quad and staple gunning down fresh grass every spring instead of not using so much fscking sand every winter, and the millions they spend on a football program which excells in date rape and seems to abohr winning a single game or two, you’d think Bates would have some coin to plink down on a new site. moreover, you’d think, given the tight aesthetic criterea all campus buildings have been maintained and/or built within, they’d have some sense of taste.

nope.

picture/graphic heavy, using outdated pix which are of the exact size and quality which makes them absolutely torrid to look at even at a full 16 million colors; poor visibility for most links; a rather bland template/layout; a nearly impossible to negotiate organization/hierarchy of pages and great difficulty navigating to content which was formerly accessible; no secure connection for the alumni section; using some sort of coding scheme which constantly reformats the page depending on what link your mouse is poised over, making clicking more like a game of wackamole than surfing….

….but most of all, it’s boring. and they didn’t mention me niether.

boo hiss.