Bobo the Webmonkey

World-Wide Web What B1FF was to BITNET users, Bobo the

Webmonkey is to webmonkeys - the mythical prototype of

incompetent web designers everywhere. In fact, Bobo may be

what B1FF became when he grew up.

Bobo knows about HTML only what he has learned from viewing

the source of other people's Web pages.

Bobo doesn't know what a MIME type is, even though someone

gave him a hardcopy of the FOLDOC entry for it.

Bobo may have used an HTML code validator

before, but isn't sure.

Bobo doesn't know what the difference between GIF and JPEG

is. He thinks PNG is a foreign country.

All the pages Bobo has designed say "Welcome to [organisation]

online!" at the top, and say "click here!" at least three

times per page.

Bobo has used Photoshop before; he doesn't understand why

people keep asking if he's ever been tested for

color-blindness.

Bobo never got that "its" / "it's" distinction real clear, as

you can tell from his pages.

Bobo likes BLINK.

(1998-04-04)