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Hello Wayne - 

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RJT>> I tried, numerous times, to get on their site this
RJT>> afternoon.  The idiot who decided that a color scheme
RJT>> involving a dark blue background and lighter blue
RJT>> lettering should be locked in a closet somewhere and
RJT>> given only a 300 baud modem! I tried and tried, multiple
RJT>> times, and never could get their page to finish loading.
RJT>> So these people wanna sell me stuff? :-) 

WC> Heh. Are you using a Netscape browser in Linux or going in
WC> under Windows? Shows dark blue and _slightly_ lighter blue
WC> on my Win 3.1 - NS Communicator 4.08 box as well and I felt
WC> exactly the same way about it. I found I could use the
WC> mouse to highlight text and make it legible. 

Placing text of a slightly different hue on top of a
same-colored background seems to look good to newbie HTML
programmers for some reason. I suspect they have no concept of
what a color wheel is and can only visualize same-colors matching
same-colors? Stupid really. 

WC> I've also had trouble with pages that never finish loading
WC> on early Netscape releases. No problem here now with Win 98
WC> and IE 6.0 

When a browser seems to 'hang' at the end of a page load it is
almost always a banner ad. Companies that sell these overload
their resources by some multiples and can't 'deliver' the
graphics to all their customers at the same time. Banner ads
are so very ugly and extreme in their attempts to attract
people's attention you would think advertisers would realize
that those ads just become an aversion and the company name is
associated with ugly cr*p. 

Lately popups and popunders look like pinball machines (to me).
The people who create these are very low-class in their choices
of what makes up an advertisement. 

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