Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 15, 2022

When you work from the garage, the kitchen becomes the break room.

I’m going through something similar, my brother-in-law asked me for help with his web site because the company that he hired disappeared (they have now reappeared). I looked at the site and it is awful. I need to have a chat with him, I don’t think that this site will do his business any good. The way that the screen keeps rapidly changing without anyone clicking on anything reminds me of the blink tag, only on a grander scale. Very annoying. There’s also some mystery meat navigation. I can’t get it to load on Firefox on two different Windows computers that I own. I suspect that Trent could be a good nickname for whoever did that site. :(

How about a logo of Mike’s foot connecting with Trent’s @$$??

Ugh. Just came to me, what this reminds me of.

My first proper job, after graduating from 6 years at Architecture school, and then getting qualified, I was on all of $20 an hour on a contract. I found out that one of the guy I was working with, no qualifications, just a bit older than me but with ‘experience’ (time spent drawing stuff on Autocad), but whose work I had been supervising as I was the Project Architect, was on $25.

Asked the boss for a raise, got short shrift as I was ‘earning enough already’.

Ended up simply leaving.

And after this is all done they need to deal with the Feds, State, & Local governments, agencies, regulators, ….. People starting businesses must be, by nature, masochistic.

Ah yes. Trent and Lars. Some years ago I had the dubious pleasure of working with some fellow graphic designers with the same mindset. How they managed to stand we hoi polloi and our simple, pathetic offerings is still beyond me. I wonder where they are today? I can only hope someone flattened their noses.

Is the cool text treatment in having the medium dark yellow small words against a very light brown field?

Cover him in coal then he would be Stoke on Trent

To much trouble. Beats a lunch box.

Home? The guy lives in your garage, Mike.

How many ex-boyfriends does Kim have??

He’s living in the garage, remember?

If you want to alienate us older folk, make the text tiny and have almost no contrast with the background.

Mike and Kim are running neck and neck with Elvis Presley for “most useless hangers-on in one house”

They’re on their way to tres strikes, which is très bad.

Shouldn’t Lars the visionary have come up with a visionary name for the company?

Too much page layout is designed on the principle of, “Our image software can do this cool trick.”

I’ve seen web pages designed by, um — can’t really call them “experts” so let’s go with the generic “people” — who think that there’s a reason God gave us ten gazillion fonts to use, and their results look like ransom notes.

And yet 2 days ago, in a comic published in 1997 (like this one) Lars was a relatively old dude.