Rule of thumb

6 Mar 2002

The more awards a personal Web site has, the worse the site.

Eric
March 6, 2002 9:40 PM

Now come on, don’t leave out names…

Steven Garrity
March 7, 2002 8:47 AM

Does it follow then, that a site with no awards is infinitely great? I know I’ve found this to be true in my case.

Adam Kalsey
March 7, 2002 12:59 PM

As far as names, just about any Geocities or Tripod site is a fine example of this rule.

And Steven, the complete lack of awards that your site has received demonstrates that robots don’t hand out awards.

Bingobowden
March 8, 2002 2:22 PM

Hey Adam, thanks for trying to help me out with my site layout problem. Only thing is, the code u told me to change doesn’t exist in my template!

Adam Kalsey
March 8, 2002 5:34 PM

Look for some similar code. Your Blogger template will have some blogger tags in place of some of the text that I mentioned.

The important things to change are to add a colspan=”2” and remove the <td> </td> that comes soon after.

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