has my thoughts exactly (gee, I'm actually not the only one!) except usually I'm not just thinking but screaming until I have a sore throat. So, finally I agree with the Web site designer: Since clearly they don't want people to read their site, I won't read their site and, thus, just click away and intend never to return.
There is a special case of this gripe -- graphs. When I do graphs, say, in Excel, I spend over half the time just fighting the defaults. I want the fonts large, just BLACK, and BOLD. For the axes and tick marks, BLACK and THICK. I want to be able clearly to SEE the data and to READ the axis annotation. E.g., I'm on a diet of about 1500 C a day. I keep careful data and occasionally graph it. Sure, I want to print the graphs on my black and white only laser printer to give, say, to a nurse at a clinic. Soooo, I want the graph to be super easy to read once printed on my black and white printer.
mentions, what was it, some artistic or emotional goals? Well, it appears in most graphs that finally do make it into the content of the mainstream media (MSM), the intention is that the line for the data be an emotional expression, say, of a thrust of eureka up and to the right. So, they go for art (communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion) instead of data analysis. Graphs in papers in physics and engineering commonly are nicely done!
What is in common on many Web sites and graphs in the MSM seems to be a goal of an emotional expression instead of information. I'm in favor of a lot of emotional expression for both fun and profit. And if my Web site works, e.g., helps my users have good emotional reactions, then I will want to analyze and, at times, graph the profit, and there I care only about, call it, data analysis, e.g., information presented clearly and explicitly. To "circle back", when a site has text, I want to be able to read the text!
I know; I know: On a Web page with text that maybe artistically something or other but super tough to read, I can grab the HTML and use various text editor macros I have to rip out the HTML markup, leave the text, format the text, and then read it in my favorite text editor. THIS is what the Web site designer had in mind?
https://www.contrastrebellion.com/
has my thoughts exactly (gee, I'm actually not the only one!) except usually I'm not just thinking but screaming until I have a sore throat. So, finally I agree with the Web site designer: Since clearly they don't want people to read their site, I won't read their site and, thus, just click away and intend never to return.
There is a special case of this gripe -- graphs. When I do graphs, say, in Excel, I spend over half the time just fighting the defaults. I want the fonts large, just BLACK, and BOLD. For the axes and tick marks, BLACK and THICK. I want to be able clearly to SEE the data and to READ the axis annotation. E.g., I'm on a diet of about 1500 C a day. I keep careful data and occasionally graph it. Sure, I want to print the graphs on my black and white only laser printer to give, say, to a nurse at a clinic. Soooo, I want the graph to be super easy to read once printed on my black and white printer.
The site
https://www.contrastrebellion.com/
mentions, what was it, some artistic or emotional goals? Well, it appears in most graphs that finally do make it into the content of the mainstream media (MSM), the intention is that the line for the data be an emotional expression, say, of a thrust of eureka up and to the right. So, they go for art (communication, interpretation of human experience, emotion) instead of data analysis. Graphs in papers in physics and engineering commonly are nicely done!
What is in common on many Web sites and graphs in the MSM seems to be a goal of an emotional expression instead of information. I'm in favor of a lot of emotional expression for both fun and profit. And if my Web site works, e.g., helps my users have good emotional reactions, then I will want to analyze and, at times, graph the profit, and there I care only about, call it, data analysis, e.g., information presented clearly and explicitly. To "circle back", when a site has text, I want to be able to read the text!
I know; I know: On a Web page with text that maybe artistically something or other but super tough to read, I can grab the HTML and use various text editor macros I have to rip out the HTML markup, leave the text, format the text, and then read it in my favorite text editor. THIS is what the Web site designer had in mind?