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thursday, april 14, 2005
Those silly universities

Throughout the college admissions process, I have stumbled across some interesting bits of web design.

The University of California application status site has a strange welcome screen:

I like to change my password all the time

Cal State Long Beach wanted to confirm my email address multiple times:

the first two times

a third time

The College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara has a “web application” you have to print out and send in. It includes a sentence with three spelling errors:

three of eight words are spelled wrong

UC Irvine likes “click here” animated gifs:

click here!

The following image is from an Advanced Placement study site. I was using the current Firefox because I figured the site had no clue about OS X. It did crash Firefox soon enough, but ended up not working anyway.

what a combination of clues and dumbness

comments (1)

O_o does that mean Safari = Netscape and browsers can still run while the computer is restarting?
Kyle on 4/21/2005 00:54:46

use <br /> for line-breaks; no other html.

for everything else, my email address is britta g at gmail dot com.

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