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After having gone through the college selection process
recently with my oldest daughter, it dawned on me that most of this
selection process is "irrational." Students really don't care
about graduation rates, professor mentors or successful alumni outcomes
because they can't imagine those things or just don't care. As one college
admissions professional admitted when she took her daughter around to
see colleges, "it was like taking a 2-year old to look at cars."
Gee, that's a nice one, mommy! We all know that today's generation is
about 2 years behind ours in emotional maturity. That is to say today's
college prospects are viewing the whole process as if they were 15 or
16 by our standards. And to complete this syllogism, emotional maturity
provides a foundation for rational decision making. Therefore, a greater
proportion of today's prospects are viewing the whole "college
thing" as just another "thing." So are any colleges catering
to this "irrational side" of college selection?
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^ don't play nice together...
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IN ABOUT A YEAR, there will likely be a three-way tie among the three major browsers, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla's Firefox and Google's Chrome. As you would expect in today's dysfunctional world, each one renders web pages just a little bit differently from the others, just enough to keep any web designer from developing any normal sense of self-esteem. There are a couple of other browsers [Mac's Safari and the costly Opera] but the users of those two wouldn't fill the town market in Keokuk, Iowa, not that Keokuk is irrelevant or anything.
But there is a browser, one known to ANY web designer that is the worst in history. And one of the reasons it is the worst in history is that it just won't die. It's Internet Explorer 6.
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^ Verdana, one of the better ones...
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Here's something that most people haven't realized after over
15 years of reading things on the internet. First and foremost is readability
rules. Some websites go out of their way to dish up some new trendy
font stylings [like this one: Georgia], ignoring the common fact that
the user controls which fonts are used, not the web designer. Therefore,
over the years, and because of the extremely low resolution found on
websites [about a sixth of what is found in an average daily printed
newspaper], most websites use sans serif fonts from a very limited group
or set. And this group is not used because it is the most common group,
but it's used because it renders well in all sizings and stylings.
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