Yeah, so boohoo, look at this awful excuse for a web page!
Hang on just a second there friend: the WWW is not a vital social
force, it is not contributing to the evolution of our species; it is what
people are doing with it in order to communicate that is. And if
I get the information I need, some content that amuses me or provokes useful
thought from the cruftiest and least flash interface imaginable I will
use it over the beautiful and empty. And furthermore, a lot of people
you should show at least some respect for don't use anything but text browsers.
The folks who keep this big fat network you like to play on up live in
a world where getting a stupid GUI going might be the last priority, and
they still need information. So I break every .html rule I've ever
read at least once per page, and while you will see my style slowly evolving
and accepting some influence from the beautiful, it's not what I'm about.
But I don't want my own strange slant to detract from what I feel are the
real issues.
Don't create devisiveness where none need exist.
Some of that work is truly beautiful, real eye candy. But don't spit
on that which isn't. Give it a chance, poke around a little bit,
figure out what's there. If you're not interested in my content I
understand, and blessed be as you go on your way, but don't miss what you
might find anywhere on the 'net 'cuz you think it _looks_ lame. I'll
be putting up a button or two here and there, but first I will make sure
that text mode always works. And if making the pages pretty
ever detracts from creating content that I feel is worthwhile then it won't
happen.