The Daily Sucker

Submitter comments: Vincent, I just discovered the Save America Summit (SAS) web site. As someone who’s already not happy with how things are shaping up on the political scene, these guys seem to feel exactly the way I do.

However, I must take issue with their web site. Quite a few pages on it, including the front one, are wasting bandwidth by using images for text. What on earth was whoever created this site thinking? The very same effect can be accomplished by using text, the photos, and CSS for both style as well as positioning everything. Using images for text is utter nonsense, I don’t care what side of the political aisle one is on.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I have never seen such a convoluted web page in my life. The “real” url is for The Church in Crisis, although I can’t seem to find a link to SAS from their home page. The designer has done something very clever. He’s placed the same text inside a DIV tag that holds the image with the text. This supposedly would make the page indexable by the search engines, but you can’t grab the text or the images (the images are displayed by CSS). Of course, you can use a web site downloader program to grab everything. With a page rank of 0, I’m not sure how successful their tactics are. Take a look at one bit of their CSS:

.sly { /* Special */
display : none;
}

They’re making the text invisible and Google doesn’t like that. Oh, yeah. The site sucks for a lot of aesthetic reasons.

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