Anyone at The D want to shed some light on how this all went so horribly wrong?
April 25, 2007
TheDartmouth.com Sucks
The new, flashier website was a bit nicer looking, but far less functional. Now it's apparently non-functioning. Also, whoever's responsible for this redesign fiasco apparently prefers British spelling. 
Anyone at The D want to shed some light on how this all went so horribly wrong?
Anyone at The D want to shed some light on how this all went so horribly wrong?
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do you really think there's a valid explanation? here's what it boils down to: incompetence. the writers aren't good writers, the coders, apparently, are not good coders...even the photographers suck. it's embarrassing to compare the d to any papers on a loooong list of other college newspapers.
ReplyDeleteYeah, probably. They hired someone to do a job, and it appears to be a horribly fucked up job.
ReplyDeleteAnd, for what it's worth, I think some of the photographers are pretty good. (It's the layout that makes shit of their work sometimes).
The inadequacy of the search function is particularly vexing.
ReplyDeletelook guys, A.S. Erickson left a name, even if it isn't tied to anything! he's ungoogleable, but everyone still knows that he's one person, and we can create a narrative of agency by compiling his comments, making him sort of seem like an actual person instead of a loose federation of trolls! this is why A.S. Erickson is hot!
ReplyDeleteUh... A.S. Erickson is a real person.
ReplyDeleteyeah, apparently fixing the archives and the search function is a completely seperate undertaking, which probably won't happen any time soon
ReplyDeleteOne thing I really hate is that the "Looking for something?" text doesn't disappear when you try to type something. That's just basic coding laziness.
ReplyDeleteBest post ever.
ReplyDeleteIt's not even better-looking. They've sapped it of all the character it had before, and there's far too much empty space on the pages. It looks like one of those generic sites of a company squatting on domain names. It also looks too much like Dartmouth's official web site, with its bland corporate aesthetic.
ReplyDeletemaybe the dartmouth should just get a blogspot page... because we all know how impressive those are.
ReplyDeleteDo you think that the radical minority cabal intentionally disabled the "D" website so that alumni won't be able to focus on the trustee camapaign? At 12% turout, it looks like few people are voting this time around.
ReplyDeleteSo this is a few years later, but any thoughts on the latest redesign launched November 2009?
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