Web Designing in the Nude…
- Look, Ma! I’m a Web Designer!
- Web Designing in the Nude…
- A Figment of My Imagination…
- Stephanie Adams is Wacko…
- Stephanie Adams, Psychopath…
- Stephanie Gets Tough on Spam…
- Stephanie Adams is Back…
- A Letter to Playboy Enterprises…
- Go Away, Stephanie Adams!
- The Ugly Saga Continues…
- Stephanie Threatens to Sue, Again…
- A Playmate Provides Evidence…
- Stephanie Adams, Lecturer…
- Stephanie Threatens my ISP…
- Wikipedia Editing Weirdness…
One of the regular readers of this site (OK, so there are only three!) read the earlier post about the inept web designer and decided to good-naturedly inform them of my kind observations.
“Saw your site. You would think someone endeavoring to make a business out of web design would realize that blue text on a black background is REALLY hard to read. BTW, I came to your site because it was mentioned in a column about truly bad web design.”
A reasonable and informative email, in my opinion. However, our friend, “Sorceress” thought differently:
“You need glasses. The background is navy and the text is blue. You are no one but the old, ûglÿ lìttlë Jëw I met in Italy with Mario (who wishes you were Italian).
Get a life and stop wishing you could be with me (or communicate with me) because not only are you are [sic] a trøll, but you have too much time on your hands (when your small, šhrìvëlëd-ûp dìçk is not in them jërkìng off thinking about me).
Have a nice day!”
Ignoring the rudeness for a moment, she claims that her website’s background is navy. Her argument that her web page is blue on blue (not blue on black) does not convince me of its readability or its adherence to ADA guidelines. She can’t even get her facts straight.
After examining the actual HTML source code of the site, I realized that the background color is not navy at all, but #00002B (or no red, no green and a blue value of 43). Navy, as defined by W3C’s HTML 4.0 specification is #000080 (or no red, no green and a mid-range blue value of 128). Any web designer worth their weight in color paint chips knows that many low-end monitor and video card combinations cannot adequately differentiate certain colors when the individual color values fall below 51. Thus the Sorceress’ use of #00002B can in fact look almost black to many viewers, myself included.
Evidently, she hasn’t learned what ALT attributes are for, either. They are supposed to represent alternative text, a textual interpretation of an image, not a big long string of keywords such as “astrology, new age, spirituality, metaphysics, products” and so forth. At best, image ALT attributes should say something like “[picture of my cat, Caesar]“.
I decided to find out a bit more information about our friend, as I might have a need for someone who can produce witty, clever, pithy responses to customer service requests. Also, she pìššëd me off because she insulted one of my readers, who just happens to be one of my best friends.
Quite easily, I discovered that she is none other than the self-proclaimed “most elusive, magical, beautiful, intelligent, successful, well-bred Playboy Playmate in history”, Stephanie Adams, Miss November 1992 USA and Miss July 2000 Italy. I guess that explains the reference to my friend’s reproductive organs. All part of a day’s work for Stephanie, I guess. Interesting that a Playmate can’t get her hands on a better quality picture to put on the splash page of her website…
According to her website, “Her company, Goddessy, is a business that started out as a hobby due to her keen interest in astrology, new age, spirituality, philosophy, divination and metaphysics… Stephanie Adams is the founder, writer, editor and publisher of Goddessy… more than just a metaphysical web store, it is a community. And most of all, it is a way of life.” Too bad her hobbies don’t actually include web design. Or good manners.
Well-bred? Hah! As for elusive, well, I found her easily enough, didn’t I? She’s not the only two-bit nude living in New York City! Magical? Wouldn’t know. Beautiful? Absolutely drop-dead gorgeous! Intelligent? Remains to be seen. Possessing a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Marketing from Fairleigh Dickinson University does not a genius make. And it takes far less intelligence to pose spread-eagled in front of a camera, leaving nothing to the imagination, than it does it to, say, be a legitimate web designer. Successful? The fact that she is relying on donations to enable her to continue her “religious mission” certainly makes me doubt her success. Performing guest appearances at Bell’s House of Tobacco in Cincinnati, Ohio doesn’t exactly have an air of success about it, either.
On her website she states that she was born on July 24, 1970 in Orange, New Jersey, her ex-husband is an Italian investment banker, her aunt was a Wella cover girl in the 60’s, and she’s a 34-C cup. What useless information! Apparently, she offers more biographical information to members, but I draw the line at paying out any money at all to read about her pûššÿ… cat, that is! Stephanie, what on Earth possesses you to think that anyone would pay money to know more about your cat?! Hello?!
Oh, and Stephanie? You might want to change the URL of the American Express logo on your donation page to “/images/Amex.jpg” instead of “file:///C:/Documents and Settings/Administrator/My Documents/My Webs/Stephanie Adams/images/Amex.jpg“. I don’t have access to the C: drive of your computer and thus cannot view the image, nor can anyone else. Broken links and images don’t exactly instill confidence in web designers.
I have a friend who might be persuaded to help QA your site… Oh, yeah! I forgot, you already pìššëd him off by disparaging his reproductive organ!!!
According to a photographer I once worked with, the only reason Ms. Adams was selected for Playboy is because “she ‘dated’ Elite Models owner John Casablancas for a week”.
If “nobody” was somebody, he would have known that I was once engaged to John Casablancas and we were an item for 2 years until I broke up with him.
I’ve had several write ups about my business and personal life in the New York Post, The Daily News, etc. and they are visible on my web site members area (you probably can’t afford to pay the $100 membership).
You fools (especially Richard) wish you could have a woman like me, but you never will. That’s why you write articles on me in the hopes of getting my attention (even if it is bad). I’m a classy woman and I’m ABOVE YOU ALL.
The bottom line is: WOMEN LIKE ME DON’T WANT LOSERS LIKE YOU!!!
P.S. “nobody” is typical of the losers who read articles on this regurgitation of a web site.
Wow! Don’t you know when to stop?! What an over-inflated ego! I would NEVER want a woman like you, nor would most people. Your previously above-average looks will continue to fade, leaving only a rotten husk with an equally rotten personality. By the way, “classy” women don’t proclaim their supposed superiority over others. - RDL
But notice that she no longer has the “blue text on black background” look to her site. So she’s admitted that it was a bad design. (I wonder if I should tell her the new green background is a very unattractive shade…)
Worse than whatever color scheme she eventually settles upon is the abysmal “decision” to make the menu structure different on almost every page. That makes navigation incredibly difficult. But thanks for the offer, Mr. Anon Private, but no thanks! As far as I’m concerned she can remain in blissful ignorance. - RDL
Doesn’t Stephanie Adams realize that she is besmirching Playboy’s reputation by doing this? If any of this gets back to Hugh or Christie Hefner, Stephanie will be in serious trouble! I thought Hugh Hefner selected his Playmates very carefully based on several factors prominently including their character. Has there been a breakdown in the selection process in this instance? Questions ought to be asked!
Playboy WAS notified. RDL wrote to them ages ago detailing her actions and noting that she promotes herself as a representative of Playboy. See his followup articles. As expected, there was no reply. I suppose acknowledging the situation at all would be an admission that Playboy has some responsibility for or control over SA’s actions. To see real chutzpa, continue reading the followup articles. She’s had HER lawyer send a letter to HIM complaining that he’s besmirching her character! Sheesh!
Yeah, right now I’m letting our respective lawyers hash things out. And, yes, I actually wrote a letter to Christie Hefner which unfortunately went unanswered. I didn’t really expect much from Playboy anyway…