Hello I'm Rich Brown and this is my personal website and blog. I'm just your simple, average, down to earth, professional, out gay man and aspiring circuit boy, living in Phoenix, Arizona with a few things to say while trying to find my place among all the scary, conservative, religious nuts in this sick and twisted world.
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
My Top 10 Internet Annoyances
I don't need Vi@gra (yet) so please stop spamming me with email about it for at least the next 15 years.
Just because I visited your website I don’t want to install the Triple-X toolbar, the Yahoo toolbar, or the Weather Bug application but thanks anyway.
No matter what you personally think, pop-up’s are bad. Bad! Bad! BAD! Leave them off your site please.
Know the difference between a 'Blog', and a ‘Website’ they are usually NOT the same. (See Note Below)
Know the difference between ‘MySpace’ and a 'Website', they are NOT the same. Just because you have a URL that points to your MySpace profile, understand that it's not really your website. (See Note Below)
Just because you can change your ‘Blogger’ or 'MySpace' template, that does NOT make you a web developer
Just because you know some HTML and can add graphics to your Blog, online profile or web page, this dose NOT make you a web developer.
Looking at the way people modify their ‘MySpace’ templates is proof as to why ‘Web Design’ should be left to the professionals. PLEASE PEOPLE: Tiled background images have NEVER looked good on a website.
'Web Design' does NOT equal 'Web Programming’. If you don’t know the difference between a static .html page and a dynamic server page (.asp, .aspx, .msp, .php, .php3, .pl, .jsp, .java) and you don’t know a an object oriented programming language such as C, C++, C#, Java, or VB (kinda sorta) then you aren’t doing any programming.
If you’re going to post a profile of yourself online with information, please spell-check and grammar-check the damn thing first. You never appear more stupid then when you continuously misspell and misuse obvious words and phrases in a profile.
NOTE: If you don’t have a set of web pages and either a web server or a web hosting provider then you don’t really have a ‘Website’ you have a profile or informational page(s) on someone else’s ‘Website’ Just because you have a URL which points to a page or content about you does not automatically make that a website. A Blog can be a website if it's hosted under it's own URL, but is usually just part of another website, i.e. Blogspot. (I'll give the bloggers some slack here but please note that there is a big difference between my 'website' and my 'blog', my 'blog' is only one small part of my entire 'website'.)
Great points in both current posts Rich! I'm glad you write for yourself and don't edit, I for one like coming here not knowing what I'm going to read. Keeps it interesting, you know? And it's the REAL you, which is a good thing!
Holy crap man, you've been doing this for a very long time!! You must be the Father of Blog!!! LOL
Have a great Thursday!
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Jude @ Thursday, December 08, 2005 10:01:00 AM
HEY RICH. that is some funny shit. and totally true. i get home tomorrow. we are going out..i think. YIPPEE.
by the way. check out PlaneJayne.blogspot.com
wink wink...
miss you guys....Chris
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Chris @ Thursday, December 08, 2005 11:04:00 PM
fuck fuck fuck...I forgot to reply didnt I?
I am going to gone, unfortunately. But ill be there in spirits....uh.. i mean "spirit"
hugs
you really liked my new uniform? that hair cost a pretty penny, ill tell you that
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Chris @ Friday, December 09, 2005 12:11:00 AM
Rich, I was reading the list and thinking "hmm... I'm betting he's a web developer." Then I saw your occupation - Waddaya know! Close enough.
Within days of signing onto MySpace, I basicly gave up because of everybody's profile having inline movies and music just instantly active. Arrrghh... so frakking annoying. And yeah, I think every one of those people will put on their resume "web developer".
Not that that's my profession at all, but I do appreciate the grunt work behind all the wondow dressing.
So I take it you remember the pre-blog days. I remember the day in like 1993-4 when I realized the web was going to be something more than an academic tool, when I was able to use Mosaic to find a copy of William Shattner's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. I said "oh... this World Wide Web is gonna something big!"
Nice place here... and thanks for the link! I'll update mine this weekend.
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Atari_Age @ Friday, December 09, 2005 5:41:00 AM
Checking off the list I think i'm pretty much safe from irritating you on the whole 'net thing. ;)
Now *personally* is a whole 'nother matter! LOL
|______________________________________________________________________ posted by Tracey @ Friday, December 09, 2005 7:37:00 AM
