Comments on: Is the Premier’s home page worth $1.50 to visit? http://nickcowie.com/2008/is-the-premiers-home-page-worth-150-to-visit/ Web standards, accessibility and such like with a bias toward Government web sites Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:33:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Russo http://nickcowie.com/2008/is-the-premiers-home-page-worth-150-to-visit/#comment-37329 Russo Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:20:07 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/2008/is-the-premiers-home-page-worth-150-to-visit/#comment-37329 d54IJB Hello I am Russo d54IJB Hello
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]]> By: Ben Winter-Giles http://nickcowie.com/2008/is-the-premiers-home-page-worth-150-to-visit/#comment-35588 Ben Winter-Giles Mon, 26 May 2008 23:24:13 +0000 http://nickcowie.com/2008/is-the-premiers-home-page-worth-150-to-visit/#comment-35588 This is entirely true, I wrote something similar not long ago, and back in the 90's *cue flashback* we used to go into blind panics when the single page weights exceeded 100kb. Now, header graphics burst that routinely, and to my eye, for not a lot of gain. I do honestly believe that like our now bloated windows operating systems, (cough cough vista) that we as a mass seem to have forgotten some of the roots of our craft. And with the advent of mobile computing, and a seemingly stagnant 'price war' in Australia on internet costs (vs the rest of the world) the user need for just keeping in mind the page size is just getting higher and higher. This is entirely true, I wrote something similar not long ago, and back in the 90’s *cue flashback* we used to go into blind panics when the single page weights exceeded 100kb. Now, header graphics burst that routinely, and to my eye, for not a lot of gain.

I do honestly believe that like our now bloated windows operating systems, (cough cough vista) that we as a mass seem to have forgotten some of the roots of our craft. And with the advent of mobile computing, and a seemingly stagnant ‘price war’ in Australia on internet costs (vs the rest of the world) the user need for just keeping in mind the page size is just getting higher and higher.

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