[LINK] Counter-productive bells and whistles

[Sandra Henderson]

Received the following from them (Vic AIDS Council) in response to a message
about its general unreadability because of colour scheme, and irritating and
useless front graphics

Your comments, along with others we have received, will be taken into
consideration when we review the site in the near future.

Hopefully lots of other people have also complained about the site -
appalling for a key information service
Sandra Henderson
Manager, Research,
Coordination Support Branch
National Library of Australia
ph: 02 6262 1481
fax: 02 6273 2545
email: shenders@nla.gov.au


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> From: 	Tony Barry[SMTP:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: 	Currie, Michael
> Cc: 	'Jan Whitaker'; Craig Sanders; link@www.anu.edu.au
> Subject: 	RE: [LINK] Counter-productive bells and whistles
> 
> At 9:43 AM +1100 30/10/01, Currie, Michael wrote:
> >Came across a real doozy yesterday - my head is still spinning.
> >http://www.vicaids.asn.au
> >I would have thought a site like this would have been more 
> >sympathetic to its clients.
> 
> Text only browser gives -
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> 
> skip intro
> 
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 
> Followed by -
> 
> A page with some text and a large number of graphics with no ALT text 
> so you don't know what they link to.
> 
> Tony
> -- 
> phone  +61 2 6241 7659
> mailto:me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au
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>