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Offtopic: Man, these military websites are embarrassingly old looking. Where is 18F when you need 'em? :-) https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/
by reustle 11y ago
Offtopic: Man, these military websites are embarrassingly old looking. Where is 18F when you need 'em? :-)
https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm?opendocument https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm...
- toomuchtodo 11y agoWhy don't you ask them how to help fix it? https://twitter.com/18F https://twitter.com/18F https://chat.18f.gov/ https://chat.18f.gov/
- reustle 11y agoI've already sent it to a good friend who works at 18F
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- 0xffff2 11y agoBetter yet, why don't you not? Surely there are much more important problems with the government's computer systems than that some websites "look old".
- toomuchtodo 11y agoThere are always going to be problems. There are always going to be people to help fix them. There will always be arguments over the priority in which to fix what.
- pavel_lishin 11y agoBut shitty websites are still a problem. Not everyone can work on the most important problem at the same time.
- knieveltech 11y agoCraigslist finds your argument unpersuasive.
- maliker 11y agoOld looking, but they are also super-fast and highly readable. I wish more sites were like this.
- AndrewKemendo 11y agoThis site is perfect. You don't have superfluous information. The highlight is the text, which is easily readable given font and background (including clear accessibility options). There is an accompanying picture which you can click for high resolution, and the navigation is above and simple to use. What more could you want?
- alex_doom 11y agoYou're joking right? It's a nightmare and far from perfect. Reading text is an exercise in self-loathing. https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm?opendocument https://foia.navy.mil/foia/webbas02.nsf/(vwwebpage)/home.htm... In which I can see: * Text over a lined background. How is that helpful? It's a constant Moiré pattern while you're reading * Awful leading/line heights. * Unoptimal character count per line. Best practices is 50-70 depending on font size. * Tiny type! I have 20/20 vision and there is 11px type I'm trying to read on a 15" laptop. * Spurious text areas on the right. There's poor organization of text. * The welcome text is small and lost above the image. I could go on about the design, but that always subjective.
- ptaipale 11y agoEverything is forgiven because it loads fast and doesn't have tons of Javascript, Flash and whatnot. It's readable enough, not bloated, and there's an understandable logic in how you navigate. Hmm, the US Navy knows how to navigate! That makes sense.
- navbaker 11y agoIt's purely for information dissemination, not trying to get people to be repeat customers or join the Navy. That's what navy.com is for.