A Playful Complaint-- College Websites

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<p>Forgive me if I am wrong, but shouldn’t colleges today-- ESPECIALLY the ones I’ve been looking at, engineering/CS colleges-- be able to produce a coherent website? Websites from top universities are full of broken links and seem to have employed five-year-olds to design their site navigation. Departments and schools are broken into different pages, fine-- but at least retain some sort of consistency! Give a link back to the parent page! Have clearly marked links to course descriptions and requirements! Don’t bury departments inside of other departments! And why must courses be broken up into different departments? I want to study Computer Science, but if I go to the CS dept and search for certain hardware-based courses, they may just as easily be under Electrical Engineering or some other dept. </p>

<p>AND TEH PDF DOCUMENTS!</p>

<p>Why, WHY must catalogs always be distributed as .pdf’s? My wrist is going to die if I have to utilize Mr. Scrolley Hand one more time. And why does Ctrl+F suck so badly? I am in love with firefox’ search function…right there at the bottom, its little box so inviting and nice…BUT ACROBAT READER’S SEARCH is bent on frustrating its users. I still can’t figure out what it does when you search while viewing a page in the middle of a doc…search up? Search down? Search for the nearest instance of this word? It never tells you. And who thought of NOT including a <em>Find Next</em> function? My usual search of a catalog is either a manual perusal of 100+ pages of text, or else Ctrl+F>>type a course>>Scrolley-Hand down a page, so it won’t simply return that occurance>>Ctrl+F, repeat. Plus, Ctrl+F doesn’t work if the document is not active, which it isn’t if you have been using the unneccesarily slow scrollbar. Not to mention that IF ADOBE ACROBAT READER TRIES TO CHECK FOR UPDATES ONE MORE TIME I MAY JUST HAVE TO ROLL OVER AND DIE. What kind of stupid idiots at adobe set the parent window to the desktop so that every time I open the reader I have to minimize everything just to tell the prompt not to check for updates? I once left a pdf sitting there for ten minutes waiting for it to load, only to discover that it hadn’t even started yet because I hadn’t found the hidden prompt.</p>

<p>I mean, this hardship is just too much to bear.</p>

<p>So, what gets you about this endless search? The worst part is that I keep abusing my monitor since my cpu is out of reach…and now there is another row of pixels messed up :frowning: .</p>

<p>:D Thanks for listening.
-Stacy</p>

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<p>lmao i hate pdf’s too!!!</p>

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<p>haha, which tech schools websites? I dont find too many of them that bad…of course I probably havn’t seen many either.</p>

<p>And yea…pdf’s blow</p>

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<p>haha that was amazing. anger management, dude.</p>

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<p>"My wrist is going to die if I have to utilize Mr. Scrolley Hand one more time’</p>

<p>ROFLMAO</p>

<p>Theres this circle thingie in the middle of your mouse. If you roll your finger across it (No wrist utilization whatsoever. Ask Dr. Seuss, he told me!!!) the screen goes up or down. Hope it helps! :D</p>

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<p>Random off-topic comment: two people from Stuttgart, Germany? that’s so weird, one of my friends is from there.</p>

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<p>lmao i so agree, PDFs are the worst things EVER…you can’t EDIT them and they ****ing KILL your computer</p>

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<p>My college’s website is pretty horrible. My college also has plenty of computer science, graphic design, and even <em>gasp</em> web design majors sitting around. Lots of them are even sitting around, looking for jobs. Figure that one out. The course catalogue isn’t pdf though, it’s just impossible to find and outdated by about 3 years. ;)</p>

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<p>Eh, maybe I’m an outcast, but…</p>

<p>I like PDFs.</p>

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<p>@ AUlostchick: Yeah we know eachother =O</p>