Topic: How not to design a website:

The title says it all, here is an example on how not to do it.
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/aj.vandenhurk/inleiding/inleiding.html

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"Art has to be forgotten. Beauty must be realized."
Piet Mondriaan

Webpages that Suck

The programmer's national anthem is 'AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH''

Wolfen's Sig Site

heee its my website !!!!!!!

so wat is not good at my website?
and i know hou easy it is hou to say that. every one can say wat is not good so tell me wat is good to do otherwise then?

greeting Dragon kiss

Sometimes I become aware my website is ugly, but this one beats me

Sorry Dragon Kiss, but in my opinion you should consider reducing the "visual cacophony". It would improve your website a lot.

Anyway, if you are asking for a review this need to be moved.

thats all a bit exxagerated there

elysiumart

Very colourful and imaginative.
I think you could do with some alternative text to show over the buttons.
Also there doesn't seem to be much of a theme to the whole thing, and ytes you could certainly do with some help with the English translation.

Tanx no i know what you mean....... and yes bad english translation. i want to change the menu but i have to know what i want first

greetings Drgon Kiss

What you want is a entirely new site.
1) get rid of flashing things
2) if you use tiles then make them fit together
3) don't use that kinda table borders ... if possible dont use visible borders at all (i think it was <table border="-0"> )
4) waay too many banners
5) everyone has a calendar themselves ...especially useless is that kinda javascript clock that shows exactly the same time that windows's clock shows
6) i like that Dragon Kiss banner with two little dragons
7) get rid of these huge grey buttons
8) make your website work with different resolutions ... actually it kinda works but with opera this look just horrible
9) make your website work with different browsers
10) think of a theme ... i really didnt understand what's that site about
11) get different buttons ... ones that would look nice

get rid of that kinda things:

and that kinda things:


and hey I didn't mean to be rude, you maybe just lack experience
i'm sure you will make brilliant sites somewhere in the future

[This message has been edited by Arthurio (edited 07-07-2003).]

[This message has been edited by Arthurio (edited 07-07-2003).]

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Tanx for your message Arthurio,

Look at it with diverend eyes now.
you talked about the visible borders . you say don't use it. what can i use than? frames?

greetings dragon kiss

And the moral of this story is: Posting a link to a site in the Asylum will light up the server stats at the other end (unless they get big traffic) so think twice before saying something derogatory.

Second moral to this story: No matter how bad you think someone's site is there are always hundreds of others out there that suck more. Lets not throw criticisms around without being asked for advice.

Dragon kiss: Do you want me to move this to site reviews so you can turn this to your advantage and sort out the problems with your site?

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

music is bad .. slows down site .. buttons need work

thats oke Emperor,

i want to learn of this, because this is my first site and i know i have to learn alot. i know that. good moral's by the way !!!

by visual borders i meant table borders not tables themselves ... use tables but adjust the border thickness to -0 so they won't be visible

Actually, you'd be much better off using CSS rather than tables... but if we are going to discuss the site I think this thread would be better off in Site Reviews...

OK off to site review with you.

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Emps

FAQs: Emperor

*giggle*

Kasta sten i glashus? Jag?

more people with GOOD ideas for my site?

Let me suggest this to you.. think of your site as a house with different rooms.. you now have everything in the entryway. You can create other rooms each with a different theme.. movies, books, music, favorite links.. and so on.

You don't have to use the images/banners provided by the sites you link to...

Be kind to your viewers, many are still using modems. Music and animated things slow things down and many users won't wait for your site to complete it's download.

Personally, I dislike that grey background your buttons are sitting on
and do consider the suggestions posted by Big Al and Arthurio...

[edit] btw, your calendar/clock applet crashed the first time i brought up your site in Opera.. you do need to test your pages in different browsers to see how they look! not everyone uses ie ...

in addition, see this spyware link on Comet before you use or recommend it.

also at the upper right corner of this page you will find a link "FAQ?".
there is lots of info in the faq including a link to :FAQ: web design
and for newcomers: :FAQ: reception room

[This message has been edited by velvetrose (edited 07-18-2003).]