got to get over the hump.
Jun. 4th, 2003 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7i finally shaved my legs, so i'm wearing a short skirt.
my boss asked me if i could make "glass buttons" for our touchscreen software. he showed me a website about them. They were OS X buttons. I thought this was pretty funny. Dave made a mockup of one of our screenshots using the interface building software on OS X, and yes indeed, they were all shiny buttons. I thought that was pretty funny... but my boss has no idea why it's so entertaining. i'll show him the screenshot and he won't get it. *shrug*
I have a little unofficial poll here.
Having multiple links with different titles that all point to the same page is:
a) helpful
b) obnoxious
My boss has some idea in his head that listing 80 different modules, but only actually having about 20 distinct pages, will somehow improve the website. I don't know if he thinks it will make people think we offer more modules, or if he thinks people won't notice that all the links point to the same fucking page, or what. So let me know: would you buy software from a company that listed ten specific modules and only had three actual distinct software packages? (Example: Dietary and Nutritional Analysis is one of our modules. It does dietary, and nutritional, analysis. My boss has insisted that i link to "Dietary" and "Nutritional Analysis", in every single fucking instance-- menus, drop-downs, product listings, and yes, the site map.
he insists a site map isn't a map or a diagram; it's an index, like in a book, and so everything should be listed as many times and under as many names as possible. I attempted to explain that the site map was primarily for search engines, and secondarily for those who found the site's navigation confusing and just wanted to see what the hell there was, and neither of those would be at all amused by a redundant site map, but... no dice. My boss doesn't actually hear things he doesn't already agree with, which strikes me as a really fucking stupid way to go through life, meaning you miss out on a lot among other things, and that you're obnoxious to be around. But. These things don't trouble him; he owns his own company and is the master of his own domain, even if the company may be failing. At least that's his own fault and he doesn't have to rely on anyone else to do it for him.
In other news, I desperately want $3000. Don't I have any eccentric rich old uncles, or wealthy secret admirers?
Because $3000, with my mom's educational discount, would get me a 12" Powerbook, with 60 GB hard drive, 640 MB memory, Airport Extreme Card, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 7, and a 30 GB iPod.
Pretty please? I've decided these items are essential to my sanity.
But no, I have to pay my parents back the $1800 I owe them from months and months ago. :/
my boss asked me if i could make "glass buttons" for our touchscreen software. he showed me a website about them. They were OS X buttons. I thought this was pretty funny. Dave made a mockup of one of our screenshots using the interface building software on OS X, and yes indeed, they were all shiny buttons. I thought that was pretty funny... but my boss has no idea why it's so entertaining. i'll show him the screenshot and he won't get it. *shrug*
I have a little unofficial poll here.
Having multiple links with different titles that all point to the same page is:
a) helpful
b) obnoxious
My boss has some idea in his head that listing 80 different modules, but only actually having about 20 distinct pages, will somehow improve the website. I don't know if he thinks it will make people think we offer more modules, or if he thinks people won't notice that all the links point to the same fucking page, or what. So let me know: would you buy software from a company that listed ten specific modules and only had three actual distinct software packages? (Example: Dietary and Nutritional Analysis is one of our modules. It does dietary, and nutritional, analysis. My boss has insisted that i link to "Dietary" and "Nutritional Analysis", in every single fucking instance-- menus, drop-downs, product listings, and yes, the site map.
he insists a site map isn't a map or a diagram; it's an index, like in a book, and so everything should be listed as many times and under as many names as possible. I attempted to explain that the site map was primarily for search engines, and secondarily for those who found the site's navigation confusing and just wanted to see what the hell there was, and neither of those would be at all amused by a redundant site map, but... no dice. My boss doesn't actually hear things he doesn't already agree with, which strikes me as a really fucking stupid way to go through life, meaning you miss out on a lot among other things, and that you're obnoxious to be around. But. These things don't trouble him; he owns his own company and is the master of his own domain, even if the company may be failing. At least that's his own fault and he doesn't have to rely on anyone else to do it for him.
In other news, I desperately want $3000. Don't I have any eccentric rich old uncles, or wealthy secret admirers?
Because $3000, with my mom's educational discount, would get me a 12" Powerbook, with 60 GB hard drive, 640 MB memory, Airport Extreme Card, Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 7, and a 30 GB iPod.
Pretty please? I've decided these items are essential to my sanity.
But no, I have to pay my parents back the $1800 I owe them from months and months ago. :/
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Date: 2003-06-04 07:20 am (UTC)I have a little unofficial poll here.
Having multiple links with different titles that all point to the same page is:
a) helpful
b) obnoxious
I've had them in the past. primarily when there is a contact us page which is linked for one reason with a title to get further information, another time for requesting a demo, etc...
But if it's a normal content page, unless the marketing people feel it needs to be addressed twice for different aspects it's unneeded
this is from kat
Date: 2003-06-04 03:56 pm (UTC)Hey, you could steal Dreamweaver and Photoshop from kazaa and save yourself $1,000. Too bad you still can't afford it...
Re: this is from kat
Date: 2003-06-04 04:07 pm (UTC)Everything you find on Kazaa, just about, is for Windows.
I could pirate it, probably, from Dave's sister, a graphic designer and Mac user.
But, while I'm fantasizing, I could pretend that I could afford to be legit.
Actually Dreamweaver is $99 with an educational discount.
Re: $99 with educational discount
Date: 2003-06-05 09:11 am (UTC)