(Web) Reality Check

Who knew that a visit to an association’s Web site could result in such an existential conundrum?

I recently received an e-mail from one of the many fundraising blogs I subscribe to, alerting me to the fact that a new post had just been published. Looked interesting, so I clicked on the link. The little beach ball on my monitor spun for a while, and I started to suspect something was awry. When the page finally opened, the navigation tools on the perimeters were there, but the middle of the page, where the blog post should have been, was a big, white pool of nothing.