How NOT to design a web site

Wow...

Seems like someone using HTML from scratch for the first time. If that's the case, I couldn't do better. But it doesn't take much work to make a clean webpage using Microsoft Word or a freeware webpage program.

-Bob
 
There's actually a website, and I think a book that is cowritten that has the same title. It's actually incredibly useful.
 
Bob W said:
.....it doesn't take much work to make a clean webpage using Microsoft Word or a freeware webpage program....
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Lots of them out there. However, in this case, the guy who runs it and the people who collect this kind of stuff probably don't care and are happy just to have a listing. But it sure is a mess! :D
 
Well, all the data are there. And, without flaming logos and java scripts and flash animations, it sure loads fast. It sort of reminds me of the good old days of the internet when the internet and the web were more about information than animation.
 
Gollnick said:
Well, all the data are there. And, without flaming logos and java scripts and flash animations, it sure loads fast. It sort of reminds me of the good old days of the internet when the internet and the web were more about information than animation.
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I agree with Gollnick. I design many websites for customers (some pretty and some less prettier) BUT the first need is usability. Chances are, if you're looking for a recoil spring for your SKS, you don't want to fart around for 5 minutes before getting there.
 
Yeah, it's absolutely horrible. But at least it makes up for it by being interminably long, too. :rolleyes:
 
Wow if thats the worst you've seen you need to "surf" more! lol.There are some truly atrocious web sites out there.
That site is merely spartan/utilitarian/functional/bland and boring.
However there are a lot of websites out there that are very pretty, take forever to load and are completely schizophrenically disorganized!
I'd take functional over pretty any day.
Thankfully the whole "splashpage" thing seems to be finally dying out.

Anybody want to point to some good examples of website design?
I would nominate the A G Russell website as a good 'un! Very well organized/laid out, excellent graphics/pics/info.

I wish the guys at cutlery shoppe would take a look at the A G Russell site. I have done a lot of business with cutlery shoppe over the years, their catologues are some of the nicest out there, great photography and layouts but their website is at best merely "functional".
 
I'm with Gollnick. I'll take that to the over-the-top flash animation that we have to deal with on many sites now.
 
That site is merely spartan/utilitarian/functional/bland and boring.
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Aside from the typos, misspelling, misaligned columns, and inconsistent formatting.

I agree about the fast-loading simplicity though. Flashing banner ads, video and sound files, cookies, and all of the other crap is a plague upon the internet.

I never saw the point in "Splash Pages" either.

Another peeve of mine, pages that have to be scrolled side-to-side. A pain in the nuts...

Most of the knife-related websites are decent. I don't mind waiting for some high-quality detailed photos to load, the information is usually presented in an orgainized manner, and ads are either not present or minimal. Some exceptions - KnifeForums takes forever and ever to load. It's always been a problem with them. And at DLT Trading the thumbnail gallery photos are way too large (the photo file size, not the physical size) and takes much too long to load.

-Bob
 
Old story! We're back to the year 1995 - oh well!
Wait till Web V2.0 + IPV6 come out- all this will be relegated to the museums of unnatural webdev
 
Isn't it strange how all of a sudden the flashy, over-animated "creative" websites have fallen out of favor (at least with this crowd). I have been preaching this for the past 8 years! I hired and fired 5 web "designers" and "web masters" on behalf of one of my clients until I found someone who actually understood the meaning of my mantra, "Loads fast, navigates easily". Leave the other crap to the gamers. :rolleyes:
 
Another thing that can make sites hard to navigate is some of the newer, artsy fonts. They're distorted and splattered looking, and they're not very fun to read. Poor color combinations (like black on navy blue) can be a big turn-off.
 
NeedleRemorse said:
Another thing that can make sites hard to navigate is some of the newer, artsy fonts. They're distorted and splattered looking, and they're not very fun to read. Poor color combinations (like black on navy blue) can be a big turn-off.
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Yeah i've seen a few with purple (small font) text on a black background. You need to select the text just to be able to read it.
 
I'm a habitual text highlighter- I prefer to read white on black or dark blue. I switched from IE to Firefox recently and it's driving me nuts that I can't double-click and select a paragraph, just a line at a time.
 
One of my old favorites of bad web design:

http://www.globalaigs.org/

Sadly, it no longer automatically plays the Glaucoma Hymn; but it still has the Monty Pythonesque bobbing heads, and the revolving, exploding Earth, among its many wonderful attributes.

By the way, I welcome criticism of my own website (other than the fact that it is [perpetually] unfinished, with lots of dead links and incomplete information... I already know that), if any of you care to take a look. Thanks.
 
Evolute said:
One of my old favorites of bad web design:

http://www.globalaigs.org/

Sadly, it no longer automatically plays the Glaucoma Hymn; but it still has the Monty Pythonesque bobbing heads, and the revolving, exploding Earth, among its many wonderful attributes.

By the way, I welcome criticism of my own website (other than the fact that it is [perpetually] unfinished, with lots of dead links and incomplete information... I already know that), if any of you care to take a look. Thanks.
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Yeah thats pretty bad too. And don't forget the Zombie blinking eye in the bottom left corner, creepy!
 
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