Dell’s website has had an overhaul. Initial impressions are of a much crisper, less cluttered design - good.
However, it simply does not work! At least not for me. The main graphical element of the page is a Flash movie which shows different products in turn. Above this is a pulldown menu, which pulls down behind the Flash movie. Site navigation is therefore impossible. This image just shows the tiny part of the menu which is visible above the graphic.
They must have tested this on some systems! I’m running Ubuntu 8.04, and the site is broken in both Firefox 3 and Opera. Could it be that the Linux market isn’t quite so important to Dell after all?
3 responses so far ↓
1 Kevin at GodsDandruff.com // Jul 18, 2008 at 20:33
Makes me feel better about my own websites that don’t work.
2 Ben // Jul 18, 2008 at 20:56
On the brighter side, this is apparently fixed in the next version of Flash for Linux (a beta is available already, I believe)
Although I would be happier if Flash was just banned from the internet completely!
3 Sami // Jul 19, 2008 at 01:02
I have encountered this on many websites. I blame Flash, not Dell.
Besides, we all know that Dell’s Linux offerings are just there to shut up the Linux advocates. The options are sub-par and customizing them is more costly than their Windows computers.