Benign Thoughts

Remember that hellcat site a while ago? Heh, well, she came to my site and left a comment on the last post in the Badly Designed Sites series. First I’d like to say to you, hellcat, that I’m honored that the owner of an absolutely horrible looking site decided to come to my site and start calling my “diary” bad. First of all, it’s not even a “diary”. It’s called a “blog”. Learn the word. It’s spelled B-L-O-G and is pronounced exactly like it’s spelled. You can also call it a “weblog”, but it’s just “blog” for short. Second of all, I said I couldn’t read it because of the background. Nothing else. Then you start attacking my site because it’s not high enough on some stupid topsite list? Well, first of all, I don’t care about the topsite list. Second of all I was in the 2 or 3 spot for about a month or so, when I first put the link up.

So, I read the comments on the topsite list today, and I come across this one:

402 - 2004-08-19 15:39:58
rofl. yknow one of the rules on topsites is NO BASHING ALLOWED. meaning be a fucking adult and dont go over to your competitors site just to diss them with insults that arent even true. my layout is messed up? dont even get me started on yours. your layout shows no organization at all and on account of your font changing sizes when i change IE’s text size shows that you have absolutely no css skills whatsoever. before you try to flame someones site, take a good look at your own. and i wouldnt be surprised if you did cheat.

Whoa. Just… Just whoa. Did she (?) just call me a cheater? When did I bash a site on the topsite list? Never, until this post here, bashing her comment, which still isn’t bashing the site. It’s called critisism. If you can’t take it, you’re a wimp. If it’s false, stand up for yourself, don’t bash the other person. My font changes sizes when you change the browser’s text size for a reason. If someone can’t read small fonts, usually they have their browser’s font size up. If you don’t make it so the page’s font size also changes, they can’t read it. Second of all, don’t use IE. Use Opera or Firefox (I use Opera). Oh, and by the way, is that kind of language allowed on the topsite list’s stats? I don’t think so….

And now, a NEW bad site! Alright, you’re gonna love this: http://www.bullnet.co.uk/ Go on, go there. The blue sidebars hurt my eyes, how could anyone navigate it?

Heh, the olden days. This site was made by ME, two, maybe three years ago: http://lcnet.ionichost.com/. Yep, that was my site. First notice the popunder if you’re on Internet Exploder. Second, look how I RECOMMEND Internet Exploder… Sad, truly sad. There’s also no content. WHEN WILL I STOP??? Oh, alright. Look! A blog! Click the link.

Wait a second… I’ve seen those entries before! yep, this actually is pretty recent. Well, the blog is, not the main site. Go to my July 2003 archives on this blog. Yep, there they are. Same entries. Yes, that was a primitive version of what you see now. And yeah, that’s a premade template. I didn’t know how to work Blogger back then, so yeah. Deal with it. Oh, and don’t even bother with the forum. The forum never got off the ground.

ANND! That’s it! Have a nice day.

Alright, I’m sure you noticed the new category. Yes, every once in a while I find a site and think, damn, that really sucks. Well, this is the first post of my “Badly Designed Sites” series. So let’s start!

You remember TooNekked, right? Well, now she’s using her xanga for her ‘layout and skin plugs’, and I admit that she’s an awesome artist. I can’t do vector, so I admire her for that. Anyhow, remember a long time ago when I said that her layout was screwed up in firefox and she jumped all over me? Well, she made a new one a while ago, I guess december or sometime, and it’s still messed up in firefox. Take a look at it yourself. I’m sure it’s beautiful in IE, but in Firefox, frankly, it sucks.

Now, she’s got a rant blog thing. Ahh, that’s much better. See? It’s not that hard to make a layout using real html and css, is it? Now, I’m not posting this to make fun of the layout. I’m posting this to yell at her (and her friends) for picking on people who ’stole’ her images. In my opinion, it’s not a big deal, and she’s overreacting and being way to immature over things. I would have calmly left a comment on the offending blog/xanga/whatever or emailed/IMed the offender and told him or her to remove the images or give me credit. See? Be nice, don’t act like you have an insect up your ass all the time.

And now, another horrible, horrible site. Alright, this one’s called.. uh… does it have a name? I’ll just call it Hellcat. Anyway, just look at it. Need I say more? Well, unless you’re blind and you use a screenreader, you can’t read the damn thing. I mean, you could, but it’s really hard. Who came up with the beautiful idea of tiling a regular picture, no, a painting, not watermarked, and calling it a background. Oh yeah, and the font is gigantic.

Alright, that’s all. Thank you for putting up with me