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February 28, 2004

Page incapable of improvement: voters

The results are in, and I guess you could say the people have spoken: By resounding majorities, respondents to my U-Design-It survey have voted in favour of ... the status quo. The Don't Change a Thing party (slogan: The Blog is Strong) has clearly caught the mood of the electorate, in a possible foretaste of the coming federal election. The only close race involved a fresh round of bloodletting in that long-running feud between partisans of the Serif and Sans-serif formats -- validating my decision to allow readers their choice of styles (a respectable number of voters also preferred Large Type, and three confessed to setting their pages on Bizarro). But by majorities of three and four to one, respondents elected to keep links opening in new windows, to keep the page the same width as now, to keep the ads where they are, and even to keep that scary, goggle-eyed photo. Go figure. As for what new features to add, there was no clear winner, the "nudity" vote having split over the question of whether it should be "in character" or not. I'll add some of the others as my technical abilities improve. Thanks to all those who participated.
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