That "logo" is just a piece of standard clip art. I threw it into the prototype and the boss said "keep it" because she liked it. The corners could be clipped I suppose, but I see them as little picoted turns of the sort that would appear in an old picture frame, so they don't bother me.

In general, I take a utilitarian view of websites. I hate it when they are loaded with time-wasting graphics and flash. I focus on making my as streamlined as possible so that they load fast and the information is right there where you can find it.

The old site that I'd inherited had something like 20 interlinked pages in it, and analysis of the http logs showed that no one ever looked at most of them. Literally, no one. So I just scrapped all of it. Then something came up that I found utterly incredible. People were complaining that I'd "taken away Google."

Yep. There was a link to Google on one of the old pages, and they had been relying on that as their only way to find Google. None of them knew how to type in "google.com" for a URL. I was told to put it back, so that's why "Search the Internet" is wasting space in the left-hand column. They had started putting their Google keyword searches into the "Search this site" box at the upper left, and of course, they were getting nothing back.

I've never had a high opinion of human intelligence in general. Working as a librarian does nothing to improve that, believe me.