Saturday, November 01, 2003
Weather.com Sucks! Providing content on the web is all about scannability. Nobody wants to have to un-pack information, we just want what we are looking for to be right there in bullet points.
It rained last night which cut the ash out of the air from all these fires. Cybil and I have been saying that next time it rains we're going to the Getty museum to check out the gardens, it couldn't be more perfect. But Cybil works 11-3, so I went to weather.com to find out when the sunset is. Put in my zip code, and the information is right there smack in the middle. Only I didn't see it because they had put it in this strange half sentence format
Today's sunrise/sunset times for:
Los Angeles 6:13 AM/5:01 PM
Why they couldn't just put it in the standard label: information pairing that they use on the rest of the page, or call attention to it with small icons? But no, they use icons to call attention to their internal advertising. Lame. At least we'll have time after Cybil gets out of work to go visit the Getty before it's dark.
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