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Daily Sucker for Friday, October 3, 2008

October 3rd, 2008 5:05 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter #1’s comments: This website suffers from information overload.  You don’t know what to look at first.  And then there’s this frame in the middle with a scrollbar of doom, which is apparently your content (if you click somewhere on the “menus” it appears there, I think).  All I wanted was an LED grow light, and the website doesn’t make it clear where in it’s mess it might be.  Better luck looking for flowers in vacant lot.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I’ve been interested in trying hydroponics to grow lettuce and basil during the winter months. A few years back I grew some basil in a light cart and it was the best tasting basil I’ve ever had.

I’m really very interested in hydroponics, but this site would make me want to stop gardening. The video starts automatically, you can’t find a focal point, most of the text is difficult to read because of lack of contrast, a lot of text is image-based, and the green color scheme glares at you. Yes, I know the site is about gardening, but you don’t have to use green just because plants have green leaves.

I’m also not sure there is a link to the home page on any of the sub-pages. Hmm.

Homegrown Hydroponics

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