May 12, 2004

fishy

sitetools_BEETLEBROW.gif
found on Beetlebrow

I suppose if you did have a fish machine, the second to last icon would be the right symbol for it. This makes all the icons, while not always traditional, intuitable: from the left, home, mail, copyright, fish machine, search.

They do break a rule that makes me crazy-- though they all look essentially alike, they all behave differently: while home is not bad, as the addition of the arrow to icon suggests a modified behavior, email opens your native email program, copyright has no click action, but shows the copyright on rollover, and the last two open dhtml widgets in the upper right hand corner. To standardize it would be simple: just make all the buttons (except home) open in the widget area. Set expectations: meet expectations.

(I'm still puzzling over the fish machine, which appears to be a slot machine of sorts. or is it merely a red herring....)

thanks, angie, for the pointer to this quirky and elegant set of site tools.