Not like “shopping” shopping, but just tire-kicking. Except, I’ve got a mission, the new Hank III album is available.
Shopping astrology:
Which isn’t a lame pointer to my – or a link to the storefront, but just what I noticed when I was poking around on the web and looking through pointers and reefers.
Dark – usually black – background and white print? Hard to read. Looks wonderful, but it’s still a pain in the eyes to read. The upside, from my point-of-view, is typographical mistakes are harder to detect. That’s more fun – for me. But from a reader’s point of view?
Then there’s the wheel of fate look, and frankly, I’m thinking someone else did this, like a boat with the signs around it?
I was figuring, having just a few extra minutes of time, what I could do was knock together one of those spinning wheel, the 12 signs, all around, and it plays like a roulette wheel, or better yet, like the wheel of fortune.
I’m none too worried about the load on the server, as the price of bandwidth is cheap these days. But I am worried that the material – the presentation – detracts from the information. The fancy sites with with throbbing buttons? While they’re fun once or twice, after while, it just gets annoying. I can tell from the server’s log files (reefers) that the paid subscription users tend to bookmark the password page and bypass the front page. Which is as it should be. And the rest? Actually, most of the inbound traffic is either the web journal or front page, depends on the day.
Throbbing buttons? Single points of light in black background? A spinning astrology chart with the signs all around, like a Wheel of Fortune?
Belies my monk-like existence.
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