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Podtech needs a website

August 20, 2006 14:42:55.447

Here's something Scoble needs to work on, and perhaps it should come before Web 2.0 parties: the podtech website. Here it is in Firefox - the text is clear, but it doesn't all fit in the browser page:

That gray text color is a horrible mistake - it makes it very hard to read. I thought that maybe the page was "designed for IE", and perhaps it was: it all fits in the browser:

I've got IE 6 here, and boy, the text is fuzzy as heck - just click through the image to see what I mean. It's completely unusable, at least in my IE on my machine. It's also lame that it doesn't work correctly in Firefox.

Mind you, the pages here aren't perfect either, so I could be accused of rock throwing in a glass house :) However, PodTech is a startup, and they can't really afford to drive people off their website. I'd like to find more good podcast content, and an easier to navigate website would help a lot.

Update: Scoble agrees, and is (not surprisingly) working to fix it. I can understand the difficult discussions over how the site should look; the main website here at Cincom sucks eggs, and I can't get anyone to listen to me on that, either :)

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[william] August 20, 2006 15:51:42.344

In order to get PodTech to look correct, I had to shrink the text several times. Man, that's some small letters. I think their design should have a note at top reminding you to get a magnifying glass. It's 5 columns wide and has a fixed width. That's crazy.

I agree and we're working on it

[Robert Scoble] August 20, 2006 17:23:49.831

Looks OK in Opera 9 on a Mac iBook (1024x768)

[Troy Brumley] August 20, 2006 19:37:58.205

At least, the problems with horizontal scrolling and such aren't a problem.  Nor do I find the text hard to read on my iBook in the default Opera display.  In Safari and Firefox on my Mac, I see the same horizontal scroll bit that Jim complains about.  However, the text is quite readable in both to me, and I've got old and tired eyes :)

Re: Podtech needs a website

[ James Robertson] August 20, 2006 20:59:59.142

Comment by James Robertson

Troy,

The current page handles text resizing in IE badly. I had text size moved down one from medium, which I had long since forgotten (I rarely use IE). At medium, it looks fine. Any other size, it's unreadable and/or odd.

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