UGLY!

[pqwabbit]

oh man I am ashamed to say that this is where I got my A.A.
man when I as at school there they didnt have a website - and the one they put up right after I graduated wasnt near this ugly -

old site (not ugly) http://ci.quincy.ma.us/quincycollege/programs.htm
new site (sheild your eyes!) http://www.quincycollege.com/

ugh if they had a guestbook I would not hesitate to sign and and say just how UGLY that site is!!!! oh maaaaan!! Am I not correct? Is it an eyesore or what?!

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Bunnies make life better.
Massachusetts House Rabbit Society, Inc.
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[Armand]

Okay you are totally correct on this one. God that's like standard homepage garbage site there. First one looked out-dated but still 10 times better. Egad!!!!

[pqwabbit]

andI couldnt help but npotice that the webmaster email was no where to be found.
hmmmm - gee I wonder why

Lea

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Bunnies make life better.
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http://www.MAHouseRabbit.org/

[Justin]

I would guess you can contact the webmaster at, oh, say quincycolledge@geocities.com http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif Both sites look like they should have had a popup hehe http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif

[LeafWind]

MAN! that is one butt-ugly site!!!
geez -- why don't colleges and universities get it? web info is sooo important to students these days and they just don't get it!
Where I got (umm, am getting) my BA:
www.queensu.ca (http://www.queensu.ca)

and this they call a re-design -- they still have info up from 95!!!

but on the other hand, many Queen's students don't realize there is email beyond PINE!

then there's Georgian College, where my bro goes:
http://www.georcoll.on.ca/
one of the "leading" tech colleges in Ontario!
argh!!!

but to try and get through their bureauracry to get them to change it (ie hire us!) is nigh-on impossible!

anyway, i'll stop rambling now http://www.aota.net/ubb/wink.gif

Shay

[pqwabbit]

'Cept my son's pages have Beavis & Butthead sound effects when you load them...

Kewl! heheh well if quincy college had that it would be much more bearable! :)

Lea
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Bunnies make life better.
Massachusetts House Rabbit Society, Inc.
http://www.MAHouseRabbit.org/

[Tom]

I wouldn't call it ugly - just a little juevenile.[nbsp][nbsp]Like the web pages my 12-yr-old writes.[nbsp][nbsp]'Cept my son's pages have Beavis & Butthead sound effects when you load them...

Tom
alumni of http://www.ou.edu/

[chernove]

Yes, it's ugly. But, are you sure you didn't get your degree from the horribly designed http://www.quincycollege.edu and not http://www.quincycollege.com?

Well, the glorious City of Presidents (almost) makes up for the awful website. Be sure to see the Adams' mansion and take a tour of Josiah Quincy's house! ;)

-Eric

[Andilinks]

I did have to read this whole thread before I realized that all but the last post are five years old...

[Randall]

Yeah, sometimes I think vBulletin needs to put up a warning before you reply to anything more than a few months (weeks? days?) old. But five years must be a record. ;)

One would hope they've updated their web site since then.

Randall

[cindik]

~# Did you look at it? ~#

[Andilinks]

Did you look at it? Well as chernove points out, the real college site, http://www.quincycollege.edu while not an award winner is not so bad as the fake site http://www.quincycollege.com/

While we are looking at site design, check this out:

http://www.dawnofthedeadmovie.net/

This has to be the most extravagant flash production I've seen (the site, not the movie).

I can't speak for the movie, but the site is pretty amazing, check out the timeline.

Andi

[Randall]

the real college site, http://www.quincycollege.edu while not an award winner I'm not crazy about the color scheme, but I've seen worse... is not so bad as the fake site http://www.quincycollege.com/ "Fake site" is giving it too much credit. Just another spam/squatter page. :\

Randall

[pqwabbit]

Wow when we got the auto-email there had been a reply here we were like WTF? We had to guess several times at our pw to log in it had been so long. :\

When I posted in 1999 (was it that long ago?) quincycollege.com was the actual college site, and it was just awful. The class schedules were converted from Word and were over 1 meg. They apparently dropped the .com it in favor of using the edu, which used to be only available for 4-year institutions. What you see now at quincycollege.edu is vastly improved over the original! Still bad (it was all images when we last checked), but really vastly improved.

[Randall]

Well, the FQ elves have now fixed things so that 5-year-old threads won't get resurrected like this again. :P As a partial solution to both of these issues, we have now "Expired" (aka closed) all threads that have not had a response in one year or longer. This should help to curtail these and similar situations. It will also assist in ensuring outdated information is not "brought back to the top" via an external link or search that brings a viewer into an outdated topic since the "Expired" buttons will offer them a notice that should cause them to refer to the dates and encourage the posting of a New Thread in which they could also easily reference the Expired Thread within. Randall

[Andilinks]

When I first read about this in its original location the phrase that came to mind was, "unintended consequenses..."

Somehow it seems *something* is being lost here but I can't really figure out what. The only thing I can think of is the possible post that would be discouraged and lost because "expired" would register improperly in the mind of someone who happened to Google into an unresolved or undeveloped thread...

Though balanced against the two recent inconveniences that seems trivial.

Yet there still seems a nagging doubt, which I've filed away in my nagging doubt folder.

Andi

[Wassercrats]

I've seen warnings for threads that reached a certain age, and I think I would have gone with one of those warnings, but preventing replies might not be too bad. It's possible for there to be a timeless discussion--my old thread on bracket placement for example--that would be better continued than started over, so people could see all the opinions in one place, but I don't know how often something like that would occur.

Ok, what I would do is have the warnings for old threads and turn inappropriate replies to them into new threads.

[Andilinks]

The ideal would of course be a language-based solution that would automagically reference every new thread to all its relevant old threads.

Artificial Intelligence that may come as a forum plug-in in maybe 10 years or less? Some better means of tapping the accumulated knowledge is bound to come along (or already exist somewhere, waiting for its market).

Andi