So, if you didn’t see Karl’s edit on the last entry, the ISP issues have been fixed. There was a router down or something at Tiscali. Grr. Anyway, fixed.. which means I can now catch up on stuff. I’ll reply to e-mails etc as soon as possible.
If you use Firefox: check this out. The words “oh. my. gosh.” spring to mind.
Anyway.. hoorah!
28 Oct at 1:51 pm
eewww, what a horrible link… well actually I think those colors were intended to be like that, right? but i’ve seen worse ^^
28 Oct at 2:40 pm
it looks just as bad in IE glad your glitch is fixed Jem!
28 Oct at 3:02 pm
It burns! Wow, you should be an unrequested review on that site. I am yearning for a new one from you Jem; they crack me up. :) Glad that the glitch is fixed.
28 Oct at 3:09 pm
Oh god, it’s imprinted on my retinas. >.< Horrible. And as someone else said, it looks just as bad in IE as well. Blegh.
28 Oct at 4:04 pm
Hehe, I’d say it’s unrequested review time, wouldn’t you, Jem? *begs* Please? We’ve gone for quite a while without one, and her site is just so… horrifying that it just screams “Review me, Jem! Smash me to pieces with witty humor and honesty!” Good that your ISP problems are fixed, by the way.
28 Oct at 4:27 pm
Hmmmm…I was very happy to back away from that site as fast as I could, I’m so glad she suggested it! :D Unfortunately, Firefox isn’t being nice to me lately which makes me sad…:( Anyway, have a good weekend!
28 Oct at 4:28 pm
I agree; that site is absolutely awful. And if anyone really wants a good laugh, take a look at the paragraph under the “Welcome” heading!
28 Oct at 5:01 pm
Really… horrible. Gosh.
28 Oct at 7:14 pm
probablt a joke :P I always figure people make aliases where they’re really really stupid, just to see how others react.
28 Oct at 7:28 pm
Heh! It figures, I was meant to review that site, until we asked her if she wanted to be reviewed by a firefox user or not. Let’s say she wasn’t too receptive to it.
28 Oct at 9:21 pm
Eheheheh, if I was really cruel, I would post the reply I sent to her when she declined to be reviewed. *snickers*
28 Oct at 9:28 pm
Why do I recognize that name? It seems like she’s commented on my site before or something, but I can’t find it. Weird. Anyway, she seems to have a pretty strict “I don’t care if my visitors can see my site or not” stance. Does she not want visitors?
28 Oct at 10:18 pm
*sporks eyes* So… pink… @_@ How does ANYONE read that white text on bright pink without getting a seizure?
28 Oct at 10:43 pm
I find her attitude more offensive (offensive in the general sense, not the personal sense, obviously) than her design.
29 Oct at 7:05 am
Ugh… code validation, people!
29 Oct at 9:05 am
What a bad ass, rebelling against valid coding ;p lol *smacks forehead* These kids today!
29 Oct at 9:16 am
And to think that three years ago, that was me lol I agree with everyone else… this is just begging for one of your ‘reviews’. =]
29 Oct at 10:24 am
Ewww. Ok, so I suppose my layout is bright pink, absolute positioned and everything, but at least you can actually read the text on the image O_O And anyway, I can create professional layouts, I just wanted a change. I cant be professional and artistic at the same time -_- This person is just… Neither professional OR artistic. Haha. One of her ‘songs’: Beaten and lost Wander around A couple of days Won’t be found So true… Once I get hold of you anyway. I know I’m stupid Idiotic and dumb I know I’m careless Can’t figure this out at all Haha, took you 3 verses to figure that out? Oh yeah, come to think of it, you can’t figure anything out. Ah, my eyes have gone all fuzzy. Its that stripy pink and black background. Yeah, contrast is good, but not too much -rubs sore eyes- -bursts out laughing- This calls for an unrequested review, eh, Jem?
29 Oct at 5:09 pm
eh, she’ll grow out of it. But for now we can continue to point and laugh/throw things
29 Oct at 5:26 pm
Wow, you really need to do an unreq now… Just look at what all the “reviewers” that she had review say… *gags* I think the only sensible one was the one that didn’t do the review at all. *giggles in glee at the anticipation of her being shredded to pieces after the unreq*
29 Oct at 6:40 pm
She’ll grow out of it Katy? She’s (apparently) 18 This is my mostest favorite bit… “Just because I don’t follow the crowd and wear girly shit, people try to slap a label on me. Either that, or they tell me, ‘You’re not punk, stop trying to be one” Pure class. Seeing as nearly half my visitors use firefox, and I refuse to use internet explorer due to advert pop ups, spam n what have you – I think she is very stupid and would be losing visitors… Not that anyone would want to stay for long with that beeping horrible scheme… Oh this is good: “After I got my domain, it seemed stupid to keep on calling it ‘Mallory Maloney’, it was going to actually be a whole new site. So I trashed all my sucky link back banners that said ‘Mallory Maloney’, and deleted all the the old past version screenshots so I could start new. The only things that I really kept from Mallory Maloney were all my pixels, my profile, and maybe a few other things from the ‘All About Me’ section. And I renamed it mallorymaloney.com. So if you link to my site with a text link, or something like that, please always call it mallorymaloney.com. Just like that. All squished together, and all small caps. Heh.” 1. Who would link your site? Who? 2. You only want that to show off the fact u bought a .com domain 3. What’s the beeping difference? My site name is another friday..and my url another-friday.net?!! So do I request people link me in all caps or with the .net? Beeping hell. 4. YOU USE BEEPING IFRAMES? Nobody should be able to purchase a domain unless they promise to never ever ever ever use Iframes (sorry folks – but WHAT is the point when includes are SO much easier and neater and less consuming and obvious that bloody iframes? egh!
29 Oct at 6:50 pm
Oh gosh, my eyes. O.O Personally, I found her text to be rude – so rude that I found it amusing.
29 Oct at 6:58 pm
I can so much imagine having a new customer come in the store where I work, tell them ‘Sorry, we don’t take dollars here. You’ll need yens.’ And the person woud go to the bank like a dumbass to get their money changed. That’s what I think of those ‘change browser/resolution/shirt’ things.
30 Oct at 1:06 am
Ya gotta love those ie-specific layouts!! Not only that but those colors are absolutely hideous. She must already be going blind or something though because those colors are HIDEOUS.
30 Oct at 1:06 am
“I don’t use FireFox, 1024 x 768, or F11. And since this is my domain, I make the rules, and I’m telling you now. If you’re going to complain what my domain looks like with your crap — Leave now. I also don’t give a shit about this ‘valid coding’ fad, so if you’re going to bash me about it — Leave. ((Yes, even if you’re reviewing my site.))” And then there was this on her requirements page: “You must have all of these things to view my site properly. And when I mean you need all of these things, I mean all of them. Don’t fucking complain to me that my site looks like shit when it’s your problem because you’re using FireFox, or Internet Explorer 4.0, or your resolution is 1024 x 768. Just use what I list below and we’ll all be happy, alright? Alright. Great.” Yeah, I’m such an idiot for not wanting the infect the hell out of my computer with viruses. Anyone who thinks IE is superior is automatically a bad web designer, no matter how good they are with graphics. I cannot stand it when people think visitors should be catering to the webmaster, when it’s actually the other way around. Has the aim of owning a website changed from ‘get as many visitors as possible’ to ‘drive away as many visitors as possible’? Besides, the rule of thumb: a good website works for everyone. As for the no-validation trend… I just don’t get it. Some people validate for brownie points, but most of us do it because we care about web standards. Oh well, it’ll be her problem and not ours when IE falls from its holy pedestal atop the market. Yeah, I agree with Jon, it’s definitely time for an unrequested review. Teach her to bash web standards like that. I’m half-tempted to write one myself.
30 Oct at 2:06 am
So it’s our fault she can’t code? What a dumbass. Thanks Jem. My retnas are thanking you. I’m seeing dots.
30 Oct at 2:17 am
owww. My eyes. The colorsss. I say go for an unrequested review also!
30 Oct at 3:49 am
Glad to see that everything is up and running! I hope the frustration is now over!
30 Oct at 2:00 pm
Oh my… *slowly backs away to visit nice sites* If I didn’t need glasses before.. I do now.. ouch.
30 Oct at 6:53 pm
You should’ve seen her website a year and a half ago. That girl was constantly signing my guestbook and e-mailing me. Her website was full of blinkies back then and had about five different columns full of shit. This layout is, surprisingly, a lot better than it used to be. Still horrid, but better. I say you do an unrequested review, too. ;D
30 Oct at 11:10 pm
You know, I used to think that I wasn’t a fan of drama, but I guess I was kidding myself. This one just keeps getting better and better. I wrote in my weblog about this, and a friend from Livejournal decided to leave this chick a comment. I come back to that site few hours later and she’s written a lovely long post about that one comment. She can’t even make a decent anti-validation argument; her post is filled with blather about ‘anti-validation Nazis’ declaring war on the ‘validation Nazis’. I can’t stand it when people think that code doesn’t matter because you don’t see it unless you view the source code. It freaking matters, in more ways than one.
31 Oct at 7:56 am
Yikes. Bad layout, bad colors, bad content. What could be worse? lol I think the person who left her the comment she didn’t like so much should be GLAD she’s banned!
31 Oct at 9:21 pm
my first thought was that she seemed pretty cranky ~ well after I ignored the horrible look of her page. I wonder why she demands the need for activeX. such drama….
02 Nov at 1:07 am
Oooh, what’s this? ‘You don’t have permission to access / directory on this server’? Can’t say I didn’t see it coming.
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