http://raporto.info/ on 2006-08-26
an example of bad web design — over-reliance on web tools
Page information
…malferma, liber-esprima informejo…
Assessment
This is a collection of news stories written in Esperanto.
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Hmm, the title's okay, although I'm never keen on alluding to the supporting Internet technology in the title.
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Tiny text for tiny eyes –
font-size: 76%applied to<body> -
A fixed width applies to the entire content.
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A background is used to provide the border, and so depends on the fixed width.
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Absolute positioning and negative margins are used on the heading and tagline, making it difficult to loosen their font sizes.
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Turn stylesheets off, and you face three pages of sparse navigation before you get to the actual content.
Looks like all the design has been left to a tool which tries to attain unattainable pixel-perfect design.
Update! — 2008-06-28 — This page has been
restyled, and some faults have been lessened or completely removed.
For example, <body> now has
font-size: 0.9em which is almost right;
and fixed widths no longer abound, although there is still one.
However, a couple of new faults have appeared: <table> is being used for part of the
layout, and some of the colour specification is missing from the
main content.
