I have to be honest with you, I have always wanted the folks at UMW’s school newspaper to look towards open source applications like WordPress or Drupal for publishing their paper online. So it is a bit agonizing to look at UMW’s Bullet hosted by (and sharing the same terrible, pop-up laden design as) the Free-Lance Star.
This is just about one of the worst sites you could be forced to look at, and more than that the text-encoding for today’s articles is completely screwed up. I know this because I am a featured source for the “Faculty loses Two More,” as UMW’s prodigal son š
Jimmy, I couldn’t agree more. It is just stunning to me that someone said “yup, this site’s ready to go live.” Awful! I think the answer to your question as to why Fredericksburg.com is in the pop-ups and banner ads, and Google ads – $$$. I thought the print version was obscene and now this.
I am similarly horrified.
Sounds like Jim is offering to host it for them.
I went and read the article. If only Jimquits was still alive.
Tom,
I’m kinda glad it was killed now that I think about the longtail of fun you could have š
As a parent I am horrified at the paper period. Sexclamations…I won’t even tell you the very vivid words that runs through my mind when it comes to that column. But I guess sleaze sells.
Oh, and I do agree with you about the site chosen. Everytime I see those bouncing heads from the classmates website it’s too much.