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When web design goes bad

Since Eric kicked things off here nearly a year ago by pointing out some creative differences with a web deign firm, I thought it might be time to point out another example of web designer’s web sites gone badly wrong:

aPe Computers

I really don’t feel the need to say much. Just watch their space-elevator-world-shattering-apocalypse banner for a while and “Feel the Quality” while enjoying those fantastic rounded corners.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007 at 4:33 pm by tim and is filed under web design, funny, terror. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “When web design goes bad”

  1. eric Says:

    March 6th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    looks like they ran out of money after the flash banner. but oh what a flash it is.

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  2. jonny Says:

    March 8th, 2007 at 8:57 am

    Wow. Web geeks making fun of other web geeks. Not that I exclude myself from geeky things or ridiculing others, but it struck me as humorous.

    “Haha! Your sword of giant slaying strength +5 is nullified by my armor of light +7, and I’m partially concealed so that raises your THAC0 by at least 2…”

    Your own critique betrays you.

    None of us are cool.

  3. eric Says:

    March 8th, 2007 at 10:08 am

    Ha. I love the analogy - though I don’t think anyone was making fun of anyone for their geekyness, so I’m not sure anything is really nullified here. The critique was of their design, and I do hope that ours is better than that despite our obvious geektitudeness.

    And in our geek defense, no one here has ever said TEH PWNXORED that I know of. Until now. Damn.

  4. Tim Says:

    March 8th, 2007 at 11:16 am

    Jonny, THAC0 is sooooo 2nd Edition, dude. You’re, like, totally stuck in the 90’s.