03/29/08 - It looks like the Greenwich Time And Advocate Papers Are Taking Notice Of Chris's Blog Posts

Chris told the Greenwich Time And Stamford Advocate what he thought of their annoying CANCER pop ups.

Quote:

"Ironically, under the giant white pop-up reads ‘Tell us what you think of our new design’. In the survey, I described it as malignant"

Story:

Stamford Advocate Website Replaces Icon With Giant Cancer

Posted by Chris

On Monday I gave the Stamford Advocate, Norwalk Advocate (which according to my count is one too many Advocates), and Greenwich Time (a mean pun that results in millions of frustrating Google results for Britains bi-annually) a hard time about never replacing the original Sun icon which came with their webservers.

Well, they didn’t take that laying down. Not only have they removed the offending icon, but they have given their sites a facelift as well, replacing their boring old white-text-on-color banners with exciting new white-text-on-GRADIENT-color banners.
(I think someone got Photo-shop for Christmas!)

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STATIONSTOPS

THE GREENWICH TIME MIGHT BE HOSTING AN INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER HACKER CONFERENCE IN THE NEAR FUTURE

"This is especially true on a commercial website, because showing the default logo kind of symbolizes that either your webmaster doesn’t know what hes doing or just doesn’t care"

Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, Norwalk Advocate Love Their Sun ...

By Chris

(The Eagle Eyed And Insightful Administrator With Mad Skillz)

The Greenwich Time, Stamford Advocate, and Norwalk Advocate family of newspaper websites all still display the default Sun web server favicon.ico icon that came with their web servers.

What does this mean?

Well, look at the picture - the favicon.ico is the little picture that appears next to your url in a web browser. When you use a web server made by Sun Microsystems, it will have that default purple icon representing the Sun logo as default - you either have to remove it or replace it, which is usually one of the first things a webmaster will do. This is especially true on a commercial website, because showing the default logo kind of symbolizes that either your webmaster doesn’t know what hes doing or just doesn’t care.

Whats even more embarrassing is that this is an OLD Sun favicon.ico - they have since replaced it with a new one which reads ‘Sun’.

This was a great idea, because now when a webmaster sees that logo, he knows hes got to get it off of there.

I attended a web conference last week where there was much talk of ‘hippos’ in commercial web development. That is, in non-web companies, the person with the highest pay usually makes all the decisions, at the expense of informed decisions. I can imagine that there is a possibility that during an early web design meeting, some hippo at the Stamford Advocate said ‘lets keep it that way - I like purple!’.

Oh, and while they are at it, Stamford Advocate needs to fix their RSS Feeds and links - half the time I click on a link for the Stamford Advocate, I get a 404.

StationStops - http://www.stationstops.com

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