"www.cartoonnetwork.com"
by Phoenix Ray
11-13-99

Yep. Another not so nice editorial coming up. If you don't know what I'm talking about, click on your address bar, enter http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/, and take a look around. Done? Okay, now on to the editorial. cartoonnetwork.com is a great example to new web designers. As long as you don't do what you see, you should be fine. In case you haven't followed my instructions and don't know what I'm talking about, Cartoon Network's site is probably the most popular pathetic site on the web. There is almost no text what so ever. It's all pictures. I don't know about everyone else, but I get kind of bored waiting for all the pictures to load on my 28.8K connection. Also, it's never updated. If you're going to have a large, commercial website, update it. I've never seen the layout change, and it really, really needs to. All of the information I've seen is inaccurate or can be gotten elsewhere. Their movie clips don't work on my browser, and the sound cilps take almost as long loading as the useless pictures. The one plus is the Alternate Universe gallery, but that almost never gets updated. Of course, having such a horrible commercial website out on the net might be a good thing. It gives people who don't have much experience on the net an example of how bad a site can be, and something to remind site owners of why spending time on their page is important.
Peace, Love, Whatever,
'Nix