I swear, I go away for a week and everything goes sideways.
I knew something was up when my iBook rendered the main page as nothing but a gray background. It had been just fine. But later, checking the website on a more recent computer, I found the reason: The whole front-end is a dynamic scripted-up-the-ying-yang cluster of bells and whistles. The only clue this was going to happen is a March press release about a survey, and also possibly this July 11 notice about a mobile app.
I want a page full of links, not a one-panel tablet-optimized-so-keep-clicking window that is mostly a background image.
Yeah, yeah. Oldthinker unbellyfeels Web 2.0 and all that. But if I’m frustrated with the layout, less Web-savvy users may be too.
The press release page itself remains unchanged, so far. (Of course, that’s the one that needed work.) Clicking through from the main page, though, gives you only the two most recent.