Hello! Content? Where are you?

Have you ever looked at a site and thought (or said out loud, or screamed at the top of your lungs to the gods), “I seri­ously hope no one got paid to do that?”  Well, you’d be AMAZED at the num­ber of these I have in the pipeline.  I’m los­ing my mind at the num­ber of peo­ple who not only hang out the shin­gle as “design­ers,” but the num­ber of idiots who look at the absolute crap they pro­duce and hire them anyway.

There is a such thing as TOO much white space

So, you are look­ing for a house in Ken­tucky (notice, I didn’t say I was).  What web­site, log­i­cally, would you look at with­out even search­ing?  That’s right, you just fire up your lame copy of IE 6 and type in the address bar some­thing like, “www.ky-homes.com” because you LOVE domains with a dash in them.  I mean, who doesn’t put a dash in every­thing just for fun?  Well, you’d be sur­prised to know that ky-homes.com sucks.  I know, who woulda thunk it?

See, if you wanted to move to Ken­tucky (the green­est state in the land of the free, as the song tells us), this site would lead you to believe that you have your choice of a 485 acre farm which has noth­ing on it, a duplex for rent or a duplex for sale (and I think they’re the same duplex).  I guess you’re not mov­ing to Ken­tucky.  I already bought the duplex, and I’m dou­bling the rent so that you can’t afford it.  It’s the farm or noth­ing, pal.

So, what’s the prob­lem with this site?  They charge peo­ple for list­ing prop­erty.  If you can’t hire a proper designer, how can you charge me for a list­ing?  Hmmm…  Let’s see.  At first glance, I see a home page with 5 pic­tures, two of which are ani­mated gifs (eww…) on a sucky graph paper back­ground that reminds me of kinder­garten (not really, because I was drunk the whole time and I don’t remem­ber it).  Well, that part sucks, but but what’s really wrong with it is…  Some­one put a “designed by” link in it.  Why?  If you can’t design, why point fin­gers at your inabil­ity to design?

How do we know this site was done by a non-designer?  Well, it was done in a big table with loads of font tags for one, but that’s a tech­ni­cal rea­son.  What about the real rea­son?  OK.  Look at it.  Case closed.  Even mediocre web design­ers are all around us, so what pos­si­ble excuse could there be for this site?

We’re here to point out the obvi­ous for those of you who lack the abil­ity to recog­nise it for your­selves.  So, leave a com­ment.  You can say things like, “OMFG, that site blows.” or “Try my get rich quick scheme.” or even “Dude, you’re an ass­hole.”  We’d love to hear from you (which is utter BS, we just want you to say “hi” and then shut up).

Oh, and one more thing.  Stop hir­ing peo­ple who’s “design” is stuck in the late 90’s! There is no excuse for it.  Also, in the com­ments, tell me if I should bother with the “designer” of this site’s own site or just ignore it and hope it goes away…

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