My God, It’s Full of Stars

I love find­ing sites that have been on the Inter­net since 2001 and haven’t been updated since then. See, the Inter­net is a rapidly evolv­ing field, and as such, con­stant updates are a neces­sity. Some­one should have told this guy that con­tent updates should accom­pany lay­out updates. I con­stantly harp on ani­mated graph­ics (specif­i­cally, cheesy ani­mated gif images) and lame music that auto loads. This site has both in spades.

The site is appar­ently the whole world to a guy named Allan. Rid­dle me this, Allan… What on earth does a scuba div­ing wel­come graphic have to do with the stars in the back­ground, the spin­ning globes, the clap­ping hands, the psilo­cy­bin inspired disco scene (seri­ously, that is just creepy), etc on this page? The dis­jointed nature of the images is but one issue.

My god, it’s full of stars!

I can’t seem to fig­ure out what this guy was think­ing with the “nav­i­ga­tion” scheme on his site. He has an index page, but also a home page that links to a cou­ple other pages which are with­out rhyme or rea­son. Pages are named things like “page2” and “Mixed­Bag”. In fact, you must check out Mixed­Bag. There is a nice lit­tle “poll” on it where the guy asks the ques­tion “What do you think of my site?” Unfor­tu­nately, the option “Sucks don­key balls” isn’t on the list of options. I guess con­struc­tive crit­i­cism is not welcome.

The music on this site… I’d almost for­got­ten it due to the fact that I muted my lap­top speak­ers. Yup, on every page you have an obnox­ious song (taste depen­dent, of course) that auto loads. Don’t like it? You have the option of stop­ping it and start­ing a midi! Yeah, rock on with the midi. Whatever…

I have looked at a lot of bad sites, but it never ceases to amaze me what peo­ple will allow onto their web­sites. Look around, read some­thing, hell, ask some­one. See­ing a site like this, I find it hard to believe that not one of the 3.2 mil­lion peo­ple who vis­ited the site (seri­ously? 3.2 mil­lion?) ever sent an e-mail to let this guy know his site sucked. I know of one who did.

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