Tuesday, January 27, 2009

KOMU.com: from the comfort of your own home

OMG, jenleereeves, what on earth have you done to me??? First it was Twitter, then this newfangled blog thing, then Ning. Now you've turned me into a KOMU.com web editing junky!

I awake from my deep slumber Tuesday afternoon after producing the morning show. All I want to do is lounge around my room, watch t.v., play video games and other college kid stuff. But first, why not arbitrarily navigate to KOMU.com (Answer: because it will suck you in, sending you into a downward spiral of "p" extracting, image resizing and subsequent blogging about it)? So I'm scrolling through the Top-Front and I find a slew of pretty glaring mistakes (see below). Thanks to the KOMU database thinger, I found the link to ACM, and that was that. I've been seated in front of this screen for 40 minutes now, dedicating my life to making KOMU.com beautiful.

Once again, all from the comfort of my own home. Thanks Jen, for ruining my life (but not really, you've just made me a .com nut).

Top-Front Badness:
Top-Front #1, Clinch Trial: Extracted "p's" to get rid of ugly space between head and abstract
Top-Front #2, Nuclear Plant: Headline was entirely to long, shortened; HAD NO ABSTRACT!!! Moved first line of story up into abstract.
Top-Front #3, Help for Homebuyers: Image was tiled (EEW!); resized.
Top-Front #4, Cruise Line Jobs: Image wasn't big enough; it had a strip at the bottom that was just grey. Resized image.