CEO Gone Mad

Here’s an example. Someone needs to tell the person(s) making the decisions about a home page that going Las Vegas doesn’t make their product line more attractive.

Note: I’ve compressed the hell out of the image for bandwidth reasons. Plus, it makes the page look worse.

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  • mediaguy

    The ceo’s son must have created that website. Holy shite is that a violation of web best practices.

  • http://crazymadmomma.blogspot.com Sonia

    I couldn’t close that psycho page fast enough!

  • wo

    awesomely hideous

  • margie

    I’ve always thought that web design is like plastic surgery or pastry chef — although I can’t do the job, I sure can tell bad work when I see it. That is the ugliest website in the history of everything. Oh, and confusing too.

  • Brian

    There is a real site on the net dedicated to these type of web pages:

    http://​www​.webpagesthatsuck​.com

    Who needs coffee? That site just woke me up and made my eyes hurt.

  • http://www.thechurchofangst.blogspot.com susan

    holy shit! i worked for this guy. you should see how he dresses…

  • http://madisonsquaregordon.blogspot.com/ Madison Square

    I think I just had a seizure. Yep, I am pretty sure I did. Look away people, just look away!

  • http://www.eighthourlunch.com db

    Why stuffit when you can stuffit deluxe to the tenth? Is it just me, or does that vice look like an arm holding boring a large screw into something?

  • http://www.eighthourlunch.com db

    Ok, lesson one: sleep first. Post later. Edit less.

    “does that vice look like an an arm boring a large screw into something?”

  • http://www.grokdotcom.com Ross

    While the butt-kissers kiss butt the reality is that most snooty web “designers” haven’t a clue about a little something called conversion rate. On an ecommerce site, that’s basically the bottom line, but people stuck in their own world tend not to know that too well. Not to mention the stupid “Me too, Jon!” idiots who litter this site’s comments

  • http://mariasinstantkarma.blogspot.com/ Mary

    Have you heard/seen the new slogan for Alaska tourism? “Before you DIE.…Alaska!” Morbid.

  • Jill

    Hey Ross, you don’t have to be a fucking web designer to know that that site looks like a shit bomb hit it. What kind of conversion rate could the braintrust designer have had in mind when it makes visitors run for the hills? Brilliant.

  • Geehem

    Nice bit of linguo: in French, allumÈ (with the accent, but I’m gonna jump to conclusion and assume that’s what they really meant) means loony.
    CEO gone mad indeed.

  • http://sotoots.typepad.com Trent

    They just wanted a little pizazz.

  • http://turtlellini.blogspot.com Turtlellini

    You know…if I take my glasses off…I can see the Virgin Mary!!!

  • http://yourfavera.blogspot.com Michael Moore

    its like a porn site for software! I bet each one opens up four popups, requires you to pay for a week of access, and sends your email account 700 emails about “hard drive enlargement”.

  • mk

    I think it needs more purple.

  • Polly

    I’m by no means a creative genius, but…

    YIKES.

    MM thought the same thing as me. I expected a huge pair of hairy balls to flash up at any moment.

  • http://bigdlittledmistatruffyandme.blogspot.com Karen Rani

    Sorry to post this here Jon, but

    HOLY SWEET FREAKING JELLO!!!!!

    CONGRATULATIONS LETA!!!!!!!!!

    You Go Wit Yer Bad Self!

  • http://www.xerratus.com John McGuinness

    OMG… I pulled up allume​.com to see for myself, I’m a web developer (C# ASP​.NET programmer to be exact).

    It took over a minute to fully load. I’m at work, on a T1 line! WTF!

    Then I looked a bit deeper, those aren’t images, IT’S ALL FLASH! Now, I’m not a flash hater but there are limits.

    To allume decision makers, you’re idiots!

  • http://newsuccess.org Amy

    I literally got a headache looking at that. Jon, just discovered Heather’s blog & your blog today while surfing. Hilarious stuff, thanks (well, except for the headache-inducing website example. I coulda done without that.) Read some of yer back-posts, congrats on quitting the job. You know what job stands for, don’t you? Just Over Broke. It;s been over a year since I quit mine and 3 years for the hubby. Yeeeeeee-hah!!!!

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