I had a window broken recently: I don't know who did it and charitably presume it was some kids playing and there was some sort of accident. These things happen. I'm glad they don't happen too often in my place since I have four buildings to look after.
The glaziers came round this afternoon, popped out the beading, replaced the double-glazed unit, and secured the beading again with what I think was a polythene hammer. It was fascinating to see two skilled workmen polishing off the job with ease in about five minutes. There is a mutual respect, I find, between myself and skilled workers. I don't tell them how to fix windows, roofs, plumbing, wiring, tarmac, or soakaways. Likewise, they don't tell me how to say Mass, baptise babies or conduct weddings.
Which brings me to the Vatican website. Matthew Warner is very polite in his criticism of the new design. I will therefore also try to refrain from any intemperate comments. Except "Dayum!"
If I need something doing in the parish, I ask around after Mass or go over to the parish club and find out if there is someone skilled in the particular trade or profession. The Vatican has a massively larger pool of people to call on. I know that there are hundreds of thousands of pages on the site - but computers are good at automating things, no? Even lots and lots of things all in one go. There are good Catholic people out there who would kill to give the site a proper makeover.
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The new site does take a bit of getting used to. The big circle with the many links inside it about Pope Benedict is just confusing.
However it is better than the Chinese language version of the site. Now that is quite somethiing.
I notice that the Latin language version of the site is more straight forward.
It is a pity that they did not improve the search function on the site
Hopefully they will now get onto translating more texts and speeches from Pope Benedict, Pope John Paul II and earlier Popes which are still only available in Latin, Italian and/or French after very many years.
It still looks like something out of the DaVinci code. But it's definitely an improvement: before this redesign I actually had to tilt my head around to view the full list of options.
Shane
Annoying that they still use the dark parchmenty background image which makes everything harder to read.
I use Adblock Plus in Firefox to remove this and the improvement in readability is startling.
Here's the string for AbP for anybody interested in trying this:
http://www.vatican.va/*/sfondo.jpg
It does not remove all the parchmenty bits, but as far as removing it from behind the main text is concerned it gets the job done.
"...good Catholic people would kill..."
Hmm... ;)
Figure o' speech we use around here :-)
@ Father Tim
I hope that you are not the victim of a hate crime, and that the broken window was an accident. I assume that it was a presbytery window as you describe the unit as double glazed?
Here on the Larner Road Estate the budget estimates for the Regeneration project range between £78M & £113M, and I am trying to nip dirty tricks and hate crime in the bud before they escalate (see http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=216195018420667&id=134486906624144 )
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2011/05/visit-to-tomb-of-blessed-john-paul-ii.html ) pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
I like it. It's not confusing. Whatever it is, I'm into the content not the looks.
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