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<snark>Every so often I go looking for examples of astonishingly astonishing
\nweb design. With that said, I’m no standards-waving design puritan, and I admit
\nI am attracted to departures from conventionality (unusual CSS tricks, and so
\non). This morning an email arrived with a link for PTA listserv subscribers to
\nthe Syracuse City School District
\nweb site<\/a>, a site so overstocked with informative tidbits that it can only be
\ndescribed as belonging to the "dump it in, anywhere" school of design, a school
\nmatching with the old industrial mindset that caused Lake Onondaga to be so
\nchoked with mercury and other debris that it for many years won acclaim as the
\nU.S.’s most polluted. I get it that the school district is complex,
\nbut…my oh my. Just try to find anything here (e.g., the media release
\nform).<\/snark><\/p>\n

To be fair, I have done little in this entry other than pot-shot on the site (and remember <\/em>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
\nmight be interesting in a class to look around for the most polluted school
\ndistrict web site in the U.S. (or in a given state) and then to work on improving its usability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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