Can anyone nav through Artemis
by oneafrikan on March 21, 2005
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Was looking at Artemis Corp today, as they’re doing some cool stuff with Microsoft Content Management Server RAPID, but I couldn’t nav through their site, so I gave up after about 3 tries… And this was in IE, with Firefox, their layour was all over the place.
This is a good example of how over-elaborate design and UI can actually do damage to how people perceive you, and how they get access to your content. And we all know content is king.
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4 comments
Looks fine to me in IE. You do _have_ to wait for the page to finish loading before the navigation starts to work though. Firefox displays it okay, but the main image and text appears non-overlayed on the right.
by Norman Rasmussen on March 22, 2005 at 1:49 am. #
ok – when you click on the main menu items, can you actually do anything?
The problem I have is that when I mouse over the About or Solutions links, I get nada – I can hover, and there is a link in the status bar, but it doesn’t actually take me there… When I click on the About submenu, it does nothing either…
When I copy and paste:
http://www.artemiscorp.com/AboutUs/profile.htm into the browser (IE), it doesn’t do anything easier…
Strange
by oneafrikan on March 22, 2005 at 2:08 am. #
Hmm,,,
I think had argued this on Swikiri, Automated Design. I have a (mostly personal) problem with content management systems.
I think they suck, and they make user interface design a machine priority, isn’t this action in contradiction (philosophy 100, WITS).
by Binary 1 on March 28, 2005 at 6:01 am. #
I’m not sure what you mean here, regards the contradiction?
I think it’s a compromise tho’ – but I have seen some really cool UI done using CMS systems…
Show me two links:
one for UI that is done by the machine, and one for UI that is done for the user, but they must both be output’ted using a CMS.
by oneafrikan on March 30, 2005 at 5:48 am. #