Tim Minor » this-is-broken http://www.t75.org User experience designer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Content Management Systems http://www.t75.org/2011/07/content-management-systems/ http://www.t75.org/2011/07/content-management-systems/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:24:12 +0000 Tim http://www.t75.org/?p=234 Content Management Systems attract their fair share of criticism. Certainly, like any tool, they can be abused – but they can also work very well, allowing large teams to manage complex websites across different locations and timezones. Poor training and poor implementation is not the fault of the CMS vendor (necessarily).

But sometimes, you see some code that defies any sense.

The following snippet is from a content managed page I came across recently (I’ve anonymised it to avoid any potential blushes). I’m sure there are technical reasons for the code that’s been generated – but really – eighteen unique classes, six divs, two spans – and all for just one image with a link on it…

<div class="a b c">
 <div class="d">
  <span class="e">
   <a href="#">
    <div class="f g h i j">
     <div class="k">
      <div class="a l m n o">
       <div class="p">
        <span class="e">
         <img src="#" alt="" class="p q">
        </span>
       </div>
      </div>
     </div>
    </div>
   </a>
  </span>
 </div>
</div>

 

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But because I can’t add plugins to the Beta version of Mac/Chrome yet, if I want to bookmark a link in Del.icio.us I have to copy and paste the link into Firefox to use the quick-add button.

Too many services? Information overload? Or should I just be content to wait for Google to sort out Chrome, Mozilla to fix Firefox or The Guardian to fix www.guardian.co.uk/ ? It’s not as if I’ve paid for any of the services mentioned.

UPDATE: To add insult to injury Firefox just crashed on me again – fortunately just after I clicked save. Phew! :)

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