Experts, I tells ya!
Jan. 15th, 2003 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehSo yeah, I'm a website designer, which means that other people (producers) provide me with content (text files), and I make it all nice and pretty and graphical and web-friendly and then post them.
The thing is? Some people think they're "web experts". What this really means is that they surf the 'net. But what they think it means is that, since the surf the 'net, they know everything there is to know about websites.
So today, from a self-proclaimed "web expert":
WE: So, this has to link to Business X.
Me: Yah, okay.
WE: And we need to use their corporate logo. So make a link, and then cover it up with their corporate logo.
Me: {carefully not smirking} I know what you mean, sure, I can do that.
WE: Just cover the link with their logo. Put the logo on top of it so you can't see the link.
Me: {wishing I could roll my eyes in a meeting} Got it.
This same Web Expert gave me quizzes for the website. Now, that's fine - javascript quizzes are pretty usual on a site that has kids' programming.
The quizzes had multiple choice and true/false questions. But? They also had questions like this:
"What is barter?"
And then a horizontal line on the document where, I suppose, the quizzee will type in their answer, and the Little Junior High School Teacher In The Computer will read it and grade it.
EXPERTS, I tell you.
Also? "Circle all that apply."
Yes, please draw on your monitors.
I ask you, why do I even work here, if they have all these WEB EXPERTS?
The thing is? Some people think they're "web experts". What this really means is that they surf the 'net. But what they think it means is that, since the surf the 'net, they know everything there is to know about websites.
So today, from a self-proclaimed "web expert":
WE: So, this has to link to Business X.
Me: Yah, okay.
WE: And we need to use their corporate logo. So make a link, and then cover it up with their corporate logo.
Me: {carefully not smirking} I know what you mean, sure, I can do that.
WE: Just cover the link with their logo. Put the logo on top of it so you can't see the link.
Me: {wishing I could roll my eyes in a meeting} Got it.
This same Web Expert gave me quizzes for the website. Now, that's fine - javascript quizzes are pretty usual on a site that has kids' programming.
The quizzes had multiple choice and true/false questions. But? They also had questions like this:
"What is barter?"
And then a horizontal line on the document where, I suppose, the quizzee will type in their answer, and the Little Junior High School Teacher In The Computer will read it and grade it.
EXPERTS, I tell you.
Also? "Circle all that apply."
Yes, please draw on your monitors.
I ask you, why do I even work here, if they have all these WEB EXPERTS?
