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Memo to those who design webpages for businesses:
1) Businesses want to make money. The link that leads to the "Give this business your money" section should be large, easy to find, and ideally even colored like candy to thus help our desire to click it. I don't care how pretty the page is. If the customer cannot find the link and/or button which means "click this to give our business money" then your web design has FAILED.
2) Scanning in the company brochure, text and all, and putting it online in huge .gif format is not a website. Take it down, design the page properly. Hint: text is the thing that you type in.
3) Most things that you think need to be in pdf format, do not. (For an example, see #2). For those things that do need to be in pdf format? Warn people about that before they click on them.
4) I'm having a hard time figuring out a reason why I shouldn't email the businesses that stupidly gave you money to design this crap, and telling them that for a hundred bucks I can revamp the site into something that works and have it done in an hour. For not taking your jobs away from you, I would like a gift. Ideally chocolate, but money is also acceptable.
5) ARGH.
(The sad thing? I'm not even talking about the same website with each of the points. But rather 3 different sites that I came across today, all of which sucked hardcore.)
1) Businesses want to make money. The link that leads to the "Give this business your money" section should be large, easy to find, and ideally even colored like candy to thus help our desire to click it. I don't care how pretty the page is. If the customer cannot find the link and/or button which means "click this to give our business money" then your web design has FAILED.
2) Scanning in the company brochure, text and all, and putting it online in huge .gif format is not a website. Take it down, design the page properly. Hint: text is the thing that you type in.
3) Most things that you think need to be in pdf format, do not. (For an example, see #2). For those things that do need to be in pdf format? Warn people about that before they click on them.
4) I'm having a hard time figuring out a reason why I shouldn't email the businesses that stupidly gave you money to design this crap, and telling them that for a hundred bucks I can revamp the site into something that works and have it done in an hour. For not taking your jobs away from you, I would like a gift. Ideally chocolate, but money is also acceptable.
5) ARGH.
(The sad thing? I'm not even talking about the same website with each of the points. But rather 3 different sites that I came across today, all of which sucked hardcore.)
