Wait… You want to do WHAT to my skin permanently?

OK…  It is my con­tention that if you do some­thing cre­ative with your time and energy, you should put cre­ative time and energy into your adver­tis­ing.  Since no one under 40 reads a news paper and would rather check the Inter­net, and a tat­too par­lor deals pri­mar­ily with the “under 40″ crowd, WTF is with these guys?

What a good look­ing crew. Site sucks, but the crew…

Mys­tic Flash Tat­toos & Pierc­ings seems to have missed the fact that they are artists, and that what they do is a per­ma­nent addi­tion to the skin of their clients.  One look at their web­site told me that I would not be vis­it­ing them to get my next tribal tramp stamp with a heart in it.  Their site was done in such an ama­teur man­ner, it makes me won­der what else they might do half-assed.  On the pages where the back­ground doesn’t inter­fere with the text, they tell you things like, “We have sil­i­cone gen­i­tal bead implants” (a fact that I either find fas­ci­nat­ing or scary as hell, and I’ll get back to you as to which).  On the pages where the text is roughly the same color as the back­ground, like the After Care page, they sim­ply tell you that you’re on your own.  Thanks guys.

The fact that, in this day and age, peo­ple still put up web­sites which use the phrase “under con­struc­tion” any­where in them (and they’re not talk­ing about build­ings or park­ing lots)  is dis­turb­ing.  I guess the stu­pid “under con­struc­tion” ani­mated GIF of a stick man with a shovel has finally been deemed ugly, so we don’t see that.  Instead, we see a lit­tle ani­mated tat­too nee­dle com­plete with blood spurt.  How quaint…

Well, at least on the “Crew” page you can click the links to learn about the artists.  Then again, there is a warn­ing at the bot­tom of the page that says otherwise…

Let’s hope the “fin­ished” prod­uct is bet­ter than what they have now.  At this point, the face they present on the web isn’t wor­thy of any­thing but ridicule.  If you’re a per­son who, upon look­ing at that mess, dri­ves to the heart of Idaho Falls to “get you some ink,” you need your head exam­ined.  I’m sure they’re very good at what they do, but they suck at web design.  I sup­pose when you’re open “Tues­day — Sat­ur­day  1:00 P.M. –8:00 P.M. ish,” and some­times on week­ends, your time is limited…

Tip:  Hire some­one who isn’t an artis­tic imbe­cile to put up a site that doesn’t scream “I’m too cheap to bother with my web pres­ence!”  Also, naked chicks on your loca­tion page (not that any­one would bother going to it after see­ing your home page) might turn off the bible thumpers who want to tat­too a pic­ture of Jesus to their inner thigh.  I’m just sayin’…

Oh yeah…  I hate Flash, but hav­ing an index page that isn’t even Flash is just lame.  It’s like kids dec­o­rat­ing their bikes with alu­minum foil over card­board (or card­board­ium alloy)…

Book­mark It

Hide Sites