Your Brand New Website--Not

[Dr. Marlena Corcoran]

I'm in the throes of relaunching my website, and can't help but think of some advice Dave Barry had about real-life moving: Just light a match, toss it in your front door, and run. You may think it would be a horror to watch your house go up in flames, but the other way just drags out the pain. Where is the equivalent of that moving service that even unpacks your dishes on the other end, carefully placing each dish on its new shelf? I can't even get the commas in the right places. And I hate wysiwyg. There, I've said it. It's like so-called international safety signs: unless you already know what these things mean, they are not overly obvious. I remember standing paralyzed in the doorway of a research building at the Institut Louis Pasteur, where instant death was symbolized by, what was it, a red triangle? What was I supposed to do? And bear in mind who designed these easy-to-use symbols: software programmers. Right. But just as I would have my doubts about eating off of dishes filed by truckers, I'm sure I'd look askance at a website completely arranged by somebody else. So I guess I'd better dig in and figure out what that little tree icon means, because everybody needs a home--page.

[Dr. Marlena Corcoran]

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