Adobe, what have you done?

2 July 2003

My friend Alex (no url!) pointed me to the redesign of Adobe.com. What have they done?! If you thought that the Macromedia.com redesign was bad (and surely it was), this one isn’t far behind.

It basically looks like a mediocre corporate website from 1997-8. Bland, void of personality, and unpolished. Just look at those drop-down menus. Ick! On top of that, it’s hardly a great advertisement for GoLive that their own homepage is not even valid HTML.

In far more pleasant news, congratulations to the Zeldmans!

According to my inbox today, I can earn money from home by promoting my large penis through bulk email in order to take advantage of a mortgage at a low, low rate. Oh, and my online prescription is ready, despite the fact I’m not listed in all the major search engines.

- Drew McLellan

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§ Jesse Rodgers: Yup, its not pretty. Maybe it’s sitll a work in progress?

..and I like the MM design, sorta kinda.
§ Drew: I like the visual look and feel of the MM site, but it’s not an overall good design. The simple fact remains that all the Flash simply doesn’t function as intended.
§ AttackMonkey: Hmmmm, that design does indeed bite. The menu’s don’t work in Netscape 4.x at all (c’mon adobe, it’s tricky but not impossible to get menus to be cross browser compliant). Waaaaaay worse than the macromedia redesign.....
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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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