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*shudder*
Er, for an organisation dealing with ritual abuse, their website is a tad on the cheery side
myspace.com
OTM
I’ll let you know when I get back from this client meeting and see their mock-up.
My colleague found the ritual abuse site because it was linked from a web designer’s own site as a fine example of his work!
courtney was right when she said web designers were the new rock stars, in the ‘anyone can play guitar’ sense...
god I could tell tales of woe. Every admin assistant with Dreamweaver throws hissy fits to do her department’s site. One of my clients even sent my big big boss her assistant’s resume to show she was qualified to do their site. I’m thinking, “bitch, you want my job? apply for it. otherwise get back to answering phones and let the me do what I was hired to do.”
Okay, that ritual abuse site is completely baffling. Maybe his 13 year old daughter helped him sketch it out.
My favorite:
The pictures from the Imperial Viennese Glaucoma Ball are wonderful as well.
WTF:
Glaucoma Hymn
Glaucoma, Glaucoma, Glaucoma
Constricting vision slowly
Halted by progress of science
Vision of a world united
Beyond all science knowing
that “web pages that suck” has a banner image that is all pixelated and sucky looking. they should try harder, all the stuff this guy is associated with looks like ass
I found a dead link on Web Pages That Suck.
Like, within maybe 4 minutes, I mean. Maybe I “lucked out” and got just the right article but it seems pretty hilarious if you ask me.
yeah it is one of the web pages that suck
He claims his site is deliberately kind of sucky:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/whyitsucks.html
(xpost)
I like the Pope John Paul II site (you have to wave your mouse over the years):
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/special_features/hf_jp_ii_xxv_en.htm
xpost—that lazy sob
A) that’s pretty much a terrible excuse for being lazy WHICH WE ALREADY KNOW BECAUSE HE SAYS IT ON EVERY SINGLE PAGE OF THE SITE
B) doesn’t actually excuse dead links throughout your article (to pages on your own site)
The webpagesthatsuck site not only looks bad but it’s really non-user-friendly!
exactly. plus.. good lord, some of the sites he bitches about are not that bad, like brown’s grad school site—yeah, the navigation system is annoying and poses major usability problems, but you know what, it looks all right, and was probably done by some graduate assistant for under $5k because that’s all they have the budget and time for, or it was done by someone who works in web dev at a university as a resume builder because he/she is new in the field and the pay is terrible. i did a bit of web design at brown, i know
the guy seems to be some sort of a douche
yeah, the navigation system is annoying and poses major usability problems, but you know what, it looks all right,
the former is essential the second, not so much. I develop sites for a major university and usability and accesibility are U&K for us. I also make nice ends.
you wouldn’t really want a website about websites that suck to not itself suck tho, would you?
i nominate ebay just because it is such a chore to list things that have an ISBN, UPC, or ASIN.
Honestly I find the *on purpose* defense to be kind of a dodge. Why not show us what good design looks like instead? Or at least make the damn thing navigable—kind of defeats the purpose if I can’t even FIND the examples of bad design.
yeah i just wanted to find a list of bad websites then i gave up
xpost http://stylegala.com/
Why not show us what good design looks like instead?
From the page I linked above:
If you want to see something I’ve done (with some help from others) that doesn’t suck too much, my personal site might be what you want.
Uh, it’s not very good.
It’s ugly, the flowers draw your eye away from the text, the typography is HORRID, and it’s not very easy to navigate—for example you have to scroll down for certain things and then you lose the buttons.
It’s clean, it validates. that’s good.
that is good. i hear you on accessibility being U&K. but his personal site still doesn’t look so hot, he didn’t really think about it
liquid layout is so over.
That Pope site is dope.
no hope in Pope.
What’s the point of picking on websites that are clearly not made by professional web designers?
Exactly. Better to have professional web designers show you sites they admire.
It’s clean, it validates. that’s good.
Yeah, but who cares?
I LOVE that glaucoma site. It makes no sense! If can’t see it, scroll down to the bottom of the nave frame for a CREEPY HIDDEN SURPRISE.
He does give a pretty website some props:
Oops, thought this was an ilx thread. Must pay closer attention to Mr Google.
Still, http://www.bdodarts.com/ = fucking awful site
It’s got darting letters!
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