The First Rule of OMFG, Talk About OMFG…

The Inter­net has put such tremen­dous power into the hands of the masses that new avenues have been forged. New meth­ods of com­mu­ni­cat­ing, mak­ing boat­loads of money, and shar­ing ideas have been born of this con­cept. New forms of awe­some have come about and gone away in spans of months. Unfor­tu­nately, the new and old forms of suck just keep being repeated.

It seems that Mom and Pop shops spring up all the time, and as every­one knows, a web­site is a must. Instead of find­ing a decent web designer, do-it-yourselfers go the route of putting together a site on their own. They have the free ver­sion of MS Front­page, or learn that Word can export in that HTML stuff. This is usu­ally a bad idea (as we’ll come to see). Jump­ing on the web with designs on mak­ing bil­lions of dol­lars will usu­ally be met with dis­ap­point­ment, not only for the “designer,” but also the viewer.

What do we do to pre­vent the suck from infect­ing the whole inter­web? The only thing we can do. We point at it and laugh. Maybe awards for the lamest of the lame will bring about pos­i­tive change. I know that this has been / is being done in sev­eral other places, but with con­struc­tive crit­i­cism and help we can keep suck from tak­ing over the Internet.

Per­haps the best thing we can do is point would-be web­mas­ters to won­der­ful tools like Word­Press, Joomla, Dru­pal and other won­der­ful con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems which are free of charge and sim­ple to use. Maybe they just don’t know how sim­ple it can be…

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