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Originally Posted by ntl customer
The college intranet is a prime example of this. Loads of whizzy animation to get the sub menus to open, and even when you get to the content, it is often out of date by a few years or not complete. 
Tip of the day: use Flash sparingly. |
Our old admin site at work is similar to this (can't provide a link for two reasons, one, the site was deleted, and, two, to allow access to the site would create security problems).
The site used DHTML pop up menus that faded in and out, and looked amazing in IE. It should be noted that you can design good interfaces uses standard HTML, and you can also use standard DHTML to create some absolutely amazing interfaces that do run on all browsers. One springs to mind. I saw a web site (don't know the link) where someone had recreated the Mac OS9 interface in DHTML for his site, and even included a few limited applications (such as a post-it facility).
Even I (despite not being the best web designer in the word) was able to knock up a basic admin interface for a site I was looking to set up, including DHTML pop up menus that worked on all browsers.
Unfortunately, they barely worked in Firefox, and didn't work at all in Opera.
The new site uses a much better menu structure, and uses standard HTML (for the interface anyway, the backend stuff is done withn a variety of languages), looks good and is easy to use in any browser. It even renders quite well using the Small Screen Rendering on Opera Mobile.
Perhaps that guy should add something else to his site: Don't use browser-specific facilities/tags.