Geek girl confronts bad grad school web design

[pantryslut]

My accomplishment of the day: sending testy email to a graduate program. To wit:

"The "program information" page comes up gibberish when I try to access it.

I am using a Mac, OS 8.6. I have tried this page both in Mozilla
1.0 and Netscape 7.0. If I use Internet Explorer (which I realize is not
recommended), I can see the pull-down menus, but I cannot use them.

Without this page, I cannot complete my application. It seems unfair to have to
pay $15 more to submit by paper because of a coding error on your part."

And I know it is a coding error on their part, because I am a geek. One look at the gibberish page and I said, "scripting error. Great."

Comments

[stopword.livejournal.com]

I HATE that.

I also hate universities that think they're so well-known that they don't need to have their city and state anywhere on their homepage.

Oddly, places like Stanford always include it, but Jim-Bob Babtist College always figures you know they're in Toad Suck, Arkansas.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

It gets worse -- tech support replied to my email, telling me to purge the cache ("Clear you [sic] cache so as to be able to view the pull down menus."). I did, just to humor them. Same error, just as I knew it would be. Grrr.

[brisingamen.livejournal.com]

Ah yes; the 'go away, we know more than you' brush-off. I still remember my brush with the local Adult Educationn Service's website in the summer. They were extremely snotty when I pointed out they were expecting me to get hold of an old version of IE to use it, and actually, when I did, it still didn't work. For some reasom, it was my fault their site was not cross-compatible.