My Beginning List

Most of us spend a good amount of time on the internet. Hopefully, you are one of the lucky ones that haven’t crossed sites as worse as this one. If you are, you might be able to help me add to this list I started on aspects of bad website design. Please let me know if you have anything to add.

The Color Theory: More is Better

Ah, hate to be the one to break this to you, but it is not. Professional web designers spend hours choosing the appropriate colors to use in moderation. The key here is moderation!

Can You Add Anything Else?

Have you ever found a site and you don’t know how they fit all this information on one page? Just like color, content should be clean and simple.

What Am I Looking At?

Have you found a site where the text actually sits on top of other text? How are you suppose to read the site never mind understand what you are looking at?

All of This Flash is Burning My Eyes

Alright, Flash is cool, but in moderation. You might want to catch our attention, but Flash rotating around eight or more spots on the page can burn our retinas and make us nauseous. Sorry, but it’s the truth.

I am sure across my journey of the good, the bad, and the ugly sites I will have more tips to share.

Seeing Double or Seeing Butterflies?

If you didn’t throw your computer out the window from my last blog I would like to take this opportunity to welcome you back. Now tell me, did you hire Randy Pan to create your website or are you still looking for another well-rounded and seasoned web designer? Green is the new black in case you haven’t heard.

Well, since it has been quite awhile from my last post I would like to pose a new question on the unholy unity. The unholy unity = content and design just in case you forgot. Alright, here is the big question for the day. Is it worse to read bad content or find content that is impossible to read? (Before you answer, maybe you should take a look. Or, should you?)

Hmm… decisions, decisions. Would you rather be entertained by the butterfly as you attempt to navigate through the site or actually be able to read the double-layered text to find out why this site was created in the first place? It’s a question almost as complicated as what came first… the chicken or the egg.

Ponder that for some time and I will bring you another cleaver/odd/misleading website for you to sort through.