[Gllug] Odeon website

[Richard Jones]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:39:02AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> I've just had the misfortune to try visiting the Odeon website. WTF?
> I thought the point of a website was to help sales, not to drive customers
> to you competitors because they can't see the contents of the site. I'd
> vaguely remembered it being mentioned here before, and someone mentioned
> an accessible version of the site, which a quick trawl of the archives
> brought up...
> 
> It's hard to express just how incredulous I am that they've got a public
> facing site that bad in 2004.

It is really no surprise.  Many many websites are just plain terrible.
Here's one which my company are currently contracted to fix (this is
the "before", naturally):

http://www.bupa.co.uk/heartbeat/html/summary_of_cover.html

[BTW, try mousing over one of the white squares.  We only discovered
this 'feature' was possible after we analysed the page source.  Now
try cutting and pasting this mystery meat text into, eg., an email.
Don't cheat by using View Source!]

Here's my first attempt at a fixed page (try "View Source" on this
one, or look at it in lynx / a blind reader):

http://www.annexia.org/tmp/bupa-plans.html

[Note: This page only works in Mozilla, because it wasn't intended to
be given to the client at this stage.  I haven't done the necessary
voodoo yet to stop IE fucking up the CSS.]

Rich.

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