I got an email from Quark the other day (strange, since I’ve never bought their product) announcing their redesigned website. Ooh goody, thought the web designer in me, a new website. So I simply had to give it a look. First thing I noticed (after I noticed that I liked their old design better) was that their big image in the middle of the page looks funny when you hover the mouse over it. Seems like a quirk, I thought – maybe some issue with Safari (I use a Mac, naturally), so I opened it up in Firefox, and sure enough, their main image is freaky weird when you look at their website in Safari.

See… Obviously a mistake.

What the…

What itÕs supposed to do, I suspect, is to swap the main image with a lighter version of the same image when you roll your mouse over it. Instead, in Safari, it swaps the image, and then offsets it by about 100 pixels down and left, which results in part of the image repeating at the top and left. Looks really weird (as you can see in the pictures).

So, like a good citizen…

I figured, what the heck, even the best designers sometimes make technical mistakes. ItÕll just take a few seconds to email them. So I made a screenshot, attached it to an email with a brief explanation, and forgot about it.

The plot thickens

I got another email today from Quark. (They must want me to buy their product.) Again, nothing out of the ordinary. But I did notice one of their feature articles – Working