ratcreature | talk about failed web design...

Some websites really put my recent worries about the look of my page on other platforms into perspective. For example I don't think it will display as black on black without anything visible at all on any kind of platform, like this page that I just visited because of a link in

wereadshite does for me in three browsers I tried. I even tried highlighting all text, and then I see some tiny, tiny text in one corner that I can't read either because it's not only really tiny, the lines are also overlapping each other. There don't seem to be any links either, at least my cursor didn't change when I hovered over the page. I have no idea what it is supposed to look like, but I'm fairly certain it's not black on black... When I look at the source code it seems that there is supposed to be an image map, that I don't see, probably because the site is just too broken, I mean whoever (or whatever) coded this didn't even put in an opening or closing html-tag in this document.

Though determined to beat the odds and still be able to unearth the content I finally turned to Lynx, which gave the most viewable result, because you can follow the links of an image map. So I was able to go to the rec page itself, which was legible in Lynx however presented the same black on black look (albeit with dark blue links) in all other browsers.

Somehow this makes me feel much better about my site...

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I can see the page in IE5.5, but it take forever to load and I get a little error message in the status bar.

What they did wrong:

1. no DOCTYPE, so I don't know how much of the style stuff is being interpreted at all.

2. mixing styles, javascript, and pointless image maps.

3. Three different body declarations. It looks to me as though the text is supposed to be very light gray.

4. I see a couple paragraphs of text on the right side of the page, but I think it must be coming in via one of those javascripts and you aren't seeing it at all.

I guess someone who doesn't bother to put a <html> tag in the document, or to close the <body> tag won't think of doctypes. My guess this is the result of some point and click website creator program gone horribly wrong. The text you see ("Enjoy yourself..."), I see that too, it's just displayed in black on black and really small with overlapping lines. It's not put there by javascript, the text itself is on a different page that is loaded into the floating frame, that's what the <iframe> tag does, and that's why the text itself isn't visible in the document source.

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