...And most of the time I'm using Netscape 4.7, so I can see all that stuff, too. But the fact remains that lots of parks are building websites that are impossible to use. Someone cited Busch Gardens Williamsburg's site...navigation on that site is a little odd, and the frames are (as frames always are) annoying, but indeed, you can print the schedules on an black and white printer. Kings Dominion uses graphics for the schedule, but the graphics are comparable colors which are as difficult on the screen as they are on a printer. Some of us are lucky enough to have color printers at work, but it doesn't help when the webmaster uses the wrong filename so that the June and September schedules don't appear at all (I'm hoping they've fixed that by now...).
But honestly. Paramount's sites are terrible to try and read because of the white-on-yellow color scheme with almost no contrast. Sites that use black backgrounds with white text are a royal pain in the neck because they print as white on white from certain browsers (Such a shame, too, as that's a very legible combination on screen!). Worst of all are the sites that take the information you want to print and put it in a Flash or Javascript application so that you *can't* print it at all.
For me, probably the most annoying thing is when I am sitting at my desk at work and the site won't load at all, or loads so slowly that I might as well have a 300baud acoustic coupler rather than the Ethernet conection I have here. Fortunately, the worst offenders seem to have fixed those problems, although I wish more sites with Flash front pages had "skip intro" buttons on them!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
Yup, I'm the one who connects with Lynx 2.7 from time to time... :)