NetworkSolutions.com (Update: does not at all) Goes Table-less
While “researching” another post, I noticed that Network Solutions has redesigned their site using fancy, table-less, web standards-loving HTML (4.01) and CSS.
Update: Too quick a glance on Sunday morning. So, basically, NS just redesigned. I guess I was too hopeful that a company so central to the web for so many years would embrace the latest in standards-based, table-less coding practices that I saw a bunch of DIV tags and jumped the gun. Sosumi.
Let me also take this opportunity to say that the actual redesign - the look - is really bad. After working at a graphic design and marketing agency for over 7 years has taught me anything, I’d say that this redesign effort started over a year ago when that gradient-laden look was in. And can someone point me to the Art Director who approved and the Junior Designer who implemented the shading on the yellow buttons that are all over the place on this site? Hideous and unreadable, they are.
I will give them props, though, for simplifying the interface on their home page and drastically reducing the number of options presented to the user. A lone bright spot.
