[wickedbass]

Am I the only one that thinks their website is crap? Just from looking at the source I can tell they have crap frontend designers/developers... Look at the way they name their classes, and wtf is with all the inline js?

For a company like that, I would wonder why all of it isn't minimized/spaceless as well?

Oracle smoracle, soon rendered irrelevant thanks to emerging technologies.

[Keyframe]

I can offer some insight into this. Years and years ago, when I had a brief stint in web (I was hungry!), one of the tasks my company (I was a one man company, and still am) was given to was producing content for several local oracle web portals. From what I hear, the workflow is still the same. Basically, content was streamed from Oracle HQ in source images and PDF and text briefs and you made a static html/css pages out of it. Then, you logged into their web thing (weblogic, or what is it called) which resided within app server and had a built cms of sorts into which you uploaded all your source files and referenced them from within that vfs. It was such a mess to do it right. But in a certain way it was neat for branching localizations.

It basically boiled down to having web sites within global websites (hence a lot of duplicate inclusions, yo dawg moments, etc.). Even the master one worked like that (after all it's a localization specific to english). Eventually I set up a smallish lamp server (prior to oracle mysql acquisition) to produce quick one offs (gathering interest for event invitations, polls etc...) since it was impossible to do it right with their system. Also, fun times were had with no preview functionality with their system, so all had to be live and hidden in order to test, but some things eventually broke when they went live, because referencing directories and files were within their vfs, and it lagged quite a bit and was mysterious with cache flush (random).

[efa]

>>soon rendered irrelevant thanks to emerging technologies

wanna bet?