[MACCAWS] FW: [thelist] site check: brownecenter.com

Hi 

I just spotted this on evolts list.

Would it make a good case study?

Would anyone like to volunteer to help this poor volunteer out?

?

Tony



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Rob Sylvan
> Sent: 10 September 2002 17:19
> To: Thelist
> Subject: [thelist] site check: brownecenter.com
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I could use some help.
> 
> I've been volunteering my time for a number of years to do 
> the maintenance
> on a website for a great organization. The website had been 
> just a pretty
> simple online brochure, in need of updating, but served its purpose.
> Recently the organization decided to get all of their 
> marketing materials in
> sync and give the site a complete redesign. I agreed that 
> this was long
> overdue and offered to help any way that I could. They 
> decided to have the
> organization that was doing their print materials to also do the site
> redesign. I'm pretty periphery these days and just wished 
> them the best and
> looked forward to the new design.
> 
> Well, it just went live. I can't believe what they did.
> 
> Since they would still like for me to do the maintenance for 
> the site, and
> they are all very dear people, I'd like to prepare an 
> assessment of sorts of
> what I see wrong with this new design.
> Where I need help is providing the rationale for why things 
> are bad. As an
> example I'll tell you that *all* of the text on the site is 
> done as graphics
> (yes, all of it). I know this is bad because people can't 
> resize it, you
> can't copy and paste it, it will be a real pain to update, 
> etc. But what I'd
> like to give them is a real industry rationale for why this 
> is bad, not just
> my opinion so that maybe they can make some good decisions 
> about fixing the
> worst offenders. I also have no idea how it displays on Macs 
> or *nix boxes.
> Any opinions/suggestions and thoughts are greatly appreciated.
> The site is brownecenter.com
> TIA,
> Rob
>