Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Most Polluted?
<snark>Every so often I go looking for examples of astonishingly astonishing web design. With that said, I'm no standards-waving design puritan, and I admit I am attracted to departures from conventionality (unusual CSS tricks, and so on). This morning an email arrived with a link for PTA listserv subscribers to the Syracuse City School District web site, a site so overstocked with informative tidbits that it can only be described as belonging to the "dump it in, anywhere" school of design, a school matching with the old industrial mindset that caused Lake Onondaga to be so choked with mercury and other debris that it for many years won acclaim as the U.S.'s most polluted. I get it that the school district is complex, but...my oh my. Just try to find anything here (e.g., the media release form).</snark>
To be fair, I have done little in this entry other than pot-shot on the site (and remember a link for future returns). And, to be even fairer, I don't even need anything from it today. But this craggy little hike through the cluttered SCSD corner of the web got me thinking that it might be interesting in a class to look around for the most polluted school district web site in the U.S. (or in a given state) and then to work on improving its usability.
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dmueller at June 3, 2009 12:20 PM
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Posted by: collin at June 3, 2009 1:17 PMI thought you might be tempted to take "It's About Finishing, Not Starting!" from the scrolling marquee and sloganizing your new office door with it. Then again, maybe it's a better fit with the DGS office door.
Posted by: Derek at June 3, 2009 8:19 PM