People don’t want to read on their TV

The outlook. What was it I heard in one of the sxsw workshops? “People don’t want to read on their TV, and they don’t want to watch TV on their computer.” And I couldn’t take the white background, but it took a while to figure out what I was looking for. I think I got it on the front page now. And the new design fits both necessary characteristics: it’s easy to see — and it’s easy for me to update. Only problem I’ve got now, is the floating navigation bar at the bottom, but that’ll sort itself out over time. Which means, I’ll figure it out yet. This redesign idea has been a bloody mess from the first attempt, right on through this fairly safe/stable iteration. The nice thing about being a “computer person” [read: geek] means little things, which make my life easier to manage, are considered progress. Like Pocket Quicken for the Palm OS. No more running home to enter the invoice or credit card charge for Chicken Fried lunch. I always like being the astrologer who the psychics come to for astrological advice. And, upon doing so, one of the Neighbor’s friends overhead some of my sage advice, “Yep, that’s Kramer, sinking to new levels of depravity every day.” I would point out, he was looking at the swimsuit issue of certain magazine when he was commenting on my comments. And, late yesterday afternoon, I did a little checking up: DSL, any day now. I even read the instructions, now this should be easy, just plug it in and we’re all good to go. Somehow, I fear, it can’t be that easy. Just like my “plug and play” shopping cart.