Posted by kchayka on 11/26/05 00:06

Travis Newbury wrote:
>
> Here is the grim reality of the world. The new Georgia Aquarium
> was just built (the largest in the world I might add) Anyway, they
> obviously needed a website.
>
> Starting from scratch they could have done anything. But they
> didn't they did this (warning it may not work in your particular
> browser with yor particular settings):
>
> http://www.georgiaaquarium.org

It's painfully slow to load, even on DSL. The layout doesn't adapt so
well to my larger than average text size, either. It looks sloppy and
unprofessional, just like most other image slice-and-splice designs. I'm
underwhelmed, to say the least.

Others have already mentioned what happens when images aren't loaded.
Note that if they didn't rely so heavily on images of text, or used a
text size that wasn't so blasted small, I wouldn't bother disabling images.

I sent them a polite email about my less than wonderful experience at
their site. We'll see if I get a response, and what kind it might be.

> they hired this company to do it for them:
>
> http://www.spunlogic.com/

They repeated claim to have an "in-depth understanding of online
behavior" as well as "put ourselves in the shoes of your audience".

It appears that their understanding doesn't include varying browsing
environments, and their clients' audiences don't include anyone with a
vision problem.

BTW, their new City of Atlanta web site hurts my eyes, but at least that
one seems to be usable with images off.

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