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Daily Sucker for Thursday, June 5, 2008

June 5th, 2008 3:03 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter comments: This page is so freaking terrible. It plays one of three education-oriented country-music songs on start-up with no way of stopping them and that change depending on the day of the week (how clever!).

It’s ugly, has randomly placed animated GIFs and images for buttons. Back to the main page - in case my description is difficult to follow), the links across the top work randomly depending on what page you’re on. The Library page is also worth staring at in disbelief. For some reason it has a it-counter-laden splash page, for which someone actually took design credit and on which the TITLE tag actually reads, “This is my first web page.” I believe it.

If you click around the library page, you find all sorts of other, creative titles like, “This Links is the Index Page,” and “SECTION 1 Title 1 Title 2 Title 3.”

BTW, I just had to know who performed those songs on the home page. It’s Garre LaGrone, a motivational speaker and singer. I’m sure his music is copyrighted, and I doubt the school actually got permission to play it. I think I smell a law suit.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I think it’s interesting that two of the home page’s major links just don’t work — Library and Calendar. The “Parents” link leads to a page that’s under construction. I got to the Library page from the Administration page. There’s a link at the bottom called “Back” and if you click it, you get a 404 error.

I also like the fact that the counter on the library page says 000001 — no matter how many times you visit.

Lopez High School

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