CEO Gone Mad
October 7th, 2005Here’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. o
October 7th, 2005 at 5:28 pm
hOLY cRAP.
October 7th, 2005 at 5:29 pm
wow. that’s some kind of crappy.
October 7th, 2005 at 5:31 pm
Ugh.
October 7th, 2005 at 5:32 pm
Un-freaking believable! Makes me want to buy the product:)
October 7th, 2005 at 5:36 pm
I’ve been hating that page for a year now. Go to it regularly and can’t ever ever find anything…Where oh where did Aladdin go?
October 7th, 2005 at 6:06 pm
Thier site has been going down hill for years now. With successive owners it hasn’t gotten any better.
Bring back Raymond Lau.
October 7th, 2005 at 6:08 pm
And good luck downloading *just* Expander. The only way to get it is to download one of the free trials of either Deluxe or Standard. Screw you, Allume.
October 7th, 2005 at 6:28 pm
whaaaaaaa!!!! my eyes are bleeding!
October 7th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
What happens on bad web pages should STAY on bad web pages. Quick, disinfect the Blurbomat! Yikes! All they’re missing is some flashing buttons.
October 7th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
ACK! Ugly as a mud fence, and I think I had a seizure!
October 7th, 2005 at 7:52 pm
client: “make that bigger”
“well, now that other thing gets lost, make IT stand out”
“okay, that other thing needs to stand out”
Another case of “if everything is bold, then NOTHING stands out”
(in best whiny artfag voice “web design is haaaaaaarrrrrrd.”
October 7th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
This site looks like a great candidate for October 2005 Blurbomat Whore…you think?
October 7th, 2005 at 8:22 pm
I hope that some designer’s soul isn’t laying underneath that website. And if it is, I hope it finds it’s way here to accept my condolences.
October 7th, 2005 at 8:25 pm
I found WALDO!
October 7th, 2005 at 8:42 pm
Oh. Oh my.
October 7th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
Puke.
October 7th, 2005 at 9:49 pm
Jon, think about it. I’ve read yours and Heather’s blogs for months now. If you are the emperor, don’t walk around naked and think you are stylin’. Dooce and blurbomat are great, mostly; ain’t nothing perfect, you know. Inspired me to start up. But watch out for all the syncophants, you guys are smarter than that. I will always be checking in. I’ve read all the posts, and if that’s the way you want to be known, guess what, I know you. I’m trying NOT to suck. You guys don’t.
October 7th, 2005 at 9:58 pm
First of all, it’s ’sycophant’. (Personally, I’m only the syco part…) You must be talking about people who try to win favor by flattering boy bands.
Damn. That page is hur-ting. Buncha little billboards.
October 7th, 2005 at 10:09 pm
That hurts my eyes.
October 7th, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Actually, I think some of the older Mirabilis web sites beat this (Mirabilis is the creator of ICQ):
http://web.archive.org/web/19990208014857/http://www.mirabilis.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20000815053636/web.icq.com/
October 8th, 2005 at 1:33 am
Really, really bad. Gah.
October 8th, 2005 at 7:48 am
somebody needs to give this same message to the people at godaddy. maybe in the early days when we were all giddy with excitement at this new-fangled internet thang…but now? sigh.
October 8th, 2005 at 8:36 am
Bleck. Oh, and thank you for sharing.
October 8th, 2005 at 8:41 am
edward tufte (www.edwardtufte.com) would have a stroke.
October 8th, 2005 at 9:10 am
I was just on that page yesterday, and I thought the very same thing - and as a graphic designer I HATE IT SO DAMN MUCH when some business people decide the best way to market their site is to PUT AS MUCH CRAP ON THE PAGE AS POSSIBLE. Goddammit they make me want to type in all caps….(end of rant, LOL)