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Holy Family Monastery – An Example of Bad Web Design for March 18, 2013
March 18th, 2013 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: Apparently, the Catholic Church has become heretical since Vatican II—UFOs, and . . . oh, what’s the use? Just pick a subject and they have something about how it has meant to ruin the Church. Not surprisingly, it is not run by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (more fondly remembered as the Inquisition). Here’s another for the OTT file, but they really need to try harder if they want to get in the top ten.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: Just when I thought it was safe to go back to church, this site comes along. On the other hand, it’s nice to see some small part of the Catholic Church has a loon website—I mean Over-the-top Website. Maybe it’s because I’m a lapsed, Jesuit-educated Catholic, but I don’t know WTF this site is talking about. Not a clue. That doesn’t really matter. What matters is the site’s design sucks.
The links on the home page go on and on. There’s no organization. My favorite page is “The Invalid New Mass,” which weighs in at over 7Mb because large images are scaled down by HTML rather than being physically scaled down (a 1389×938-pixel image [612K] is forced to fit in a 175×150 container). There are lots of other problems, but why bother? Crap is crap.
If the people who spent the time to build this “website” had focused their efforts on curing breast cancer, the Susan G. Komen foundation would be shuttered by now.
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