Online registration forms...

[sensaes]

...which insist upon you entering a US State from a drop-down box as "a required field", even when there's a similar drop-down box for Country (with the United States at the top, naturally, and the United Kingdom way down near the very bottom) get right on my tits.

"Special Relationship" my arse.

Silly fuckers...

Just for the record, if anyone

Comments

[sevenjades]

PLEASE register a complaint with the company! Get your friends to do the same!

As a web developer, I can't tell you how hard it is to get through a client's skull that ANYONE may use the website, so you have to accomodate many kinds of people. They're locked in thier own world, though, so unless customers yell at them to change, they won't.

[sensaes]

Well, seeing as though they're an NGO with barely a pot to piss in as it is, that would feel a little like whipping a small dog for not knowing how to do algebra. (They occasionally update their homepage, but most of the site hasn't seen a makeover since 2003...)

[sevenjades]

Well, eventually they will get around to updating their site. Maybe your email will be the kick that gets them going.

And as someone who has worked with NGOs and such, I know the ones who survive are the ones who keep their houses in order, including their websites. Site makeovers aren't always necessary, as long as the content remains current. The ones who don't, well, they're either involved in something that doesn't allow for or require a web presence, or are fast fading into irrelevance.

I take my job seriously, that's why I get pissed off when developers make stupid decisions like this.

[sensaes]

Understood. (Actually, the newsletter sub confirmation e-mail arrived almost instantly upon - finally - completing registration, according to the datestamp in my Inbox, so I'm already feeling a tad mean about this post...)

[tx_cronopio]

Didn't you hear? One night in bed, Tony promised George that the UK would be his.

I'd rather adopt the dollar than the Euro any day...

[sensaes]

That would make life so much easier, actually! (Reminds me a bit of Graham Masterton's novel Ikon, where it turns out that JFK pooped his pants over the Cuban Missiles Crisis, and handed control of the US over to Russia in a fit of panic. Oh, and Marilyn Monroe was secretly still alive, too. Excellent book...)

[shizaru]

oh please... let's not get started!

how about the race choices? or sex? or marital status? it will be quite a looooong time before registration forms, applications, surveys, etc. catch up with the world.

...i'm not holding my breath.

[sensaes]

That'd be a bit much for a quarterly newsletter...

;o)