Worst website 2012

LINGsCARS

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Is your reading broken?

Yes Kenny.

That, typically, is the quality of English expected from the type of person who criticises my website.

However, as they are probably Irish, I give them some latitude. But now that you point out their writing is crap, I stick the boot in.

As I am Chinese, it's like a chicken talking to a duck.

Ling

Kenny Logins

There you go ^^ . That's who I'd go to if I was in the market for a new car.

tricky D

Yay, Ling is back!!

Did you have a sound in the office to alert you to this thread?

@_ciaran_ and kickslate and any others not familiar with Ling, take a look at her post history especially the 'Ling is in the well' thread. It's a top-notch and eye-opening read.

LINGsCARS

Hahahaha,

Of course I am back. I never left really.

I see where people come from when they visit my website and follow the referrer and then murder them. It's all great fun

Ling!

Fanny Cradock

Love the source code. Pure class as they say.

LINGsCARS

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

Love the source code. Pure class as they say.

How did you find that?

You must have a lot of time on your hands.

Ling

Fanny Cradock

I do computery related thing-a-ma-bobs for a living.

Gordon

Jaysus Ling, those absurd planets are ridiculous. Any plans on doing UK dragons den again?

LINGsCARS

Gordon wrote: »

Jaysus Ling, those absurd planets are ridiculous. Any plans on doing UK dragons den again?

No, no, that's done and dusted now.

Next, I am doing 2 talks. One in Cardiff at Handheld with Zeldman (late Nov), and one in Shanghai (early Nov in English)... 4th Annual Digital Marketing Revolution Summit 2013. Tra-laaa

Ling

CelticRambler

My favourite of the moment in the not-fit-for-purpose category comes from our local tourist board. Imagine you're a tourist and want to visit ... http://www.berryprovince.com

It's worse than the ireland.com site.

KonFusion

I presume you've all seen this amazing bootstrap theme/template: http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/

And it's responsive!! :pac:

So awesome.

Trojan

KonFusion wrote: »

I presume you've all seen this amazing bootstrap theme/template: http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/

And it's responsive!! :pac:

So awesome.

Genius!

tricky D

KonFusion wrote: »

I presume you've all seen this amazing bootstrap theme/template: http://divshot.github.io/geo-bootstrap/

And it's responsive!! :pac:

So awesome.

It doesn't have a spinning globe. Am disappoint.

ivanc

Here's a site that would benefit from a flying toaster or two - http://www.docket.ie/

Maglight

Dear God, and they probably paid someone to build it too

Trojan

Meta discussion: I'm not sure about the ethics of posting real (i.e. non-joke) web sites in a thread with this subject.

I do still love the deliberately done stuff like Geo Bootstrap and the wonderful LingsCars.

Am I being overly sensitive, or is it unfair or unethical?

KonFusion

Trojan wrote: »

Am I being overly sensitive

Not necessarily. I get where you're coming from.

Perhaps a change of thread title/new thread (since the the thread title here is '2012' anyway) with a more forgiving title such as "websites in need of a spruce/some love".... Or is that too...er...lame?

You get the idea.

I would agree that saying "dear god that website is terrible etc what morons are they for having that" and so forth is a bit much and seems a little petty. Perhaps an attack the website and not the company/person rule?

Kenny Logins

Maybe it should be restricted to sites with analytics installed?

"Good news - the numbers are up this month."

"Bad news - it's only because they're mocking us on boards.ie."

Reamer Fanny

Remember when the marquee tag used to be cool

Kenny Logins

https://ncts.ie/locations.html

Must have been a school project, they used this - http://www.serif.com/webplus/

omega42

the future of Longford Commerce is well

http://www.longfordchamber.ie/

yoyo

Kenny Logins wrote: »

https://ncts.ie/locations.html

Must have been a school project, they used this - http://www.serif.com/webplus/

The animated 'book now' gif :eek::eek: . Seriously though do these public service websites not have to conform legally to usability standards, glaring orange with white text for the menu items, animations, blank image alt tags :S

Nick

Dazza

http://www.emotionmedia.ie/

It hurt my eyes..

Kenny Logins

Flash! Arrrrgh.

ivanc

omega42 wrote: »

the future of Longford Commerce is well

http://www.longfordchamber.ie/

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

Duckjob

omega42 wrote: »

the future of Longford Commerce is well

http://www.longfordchamber.ie/

For some strange reason I hear the Doctor Who music in my head when I view that site :pac:

28064212

Dazza wrote: »

http://www.emotionmedia.ie/

It hurt my eyes..

I like it, it's very minimalist:



* The internet is a much nicer place with flash disabled

Sonnenblumen

Trojan wrote: »

Meta discussion: I'm not sure about the ethics of posting real (i.e. non-joke) web sites in a thread with this subject.

I do still love the deliberately done stuff like Geo Bootstrap and the wonderful LingsCars.

Am I being overly sensitive, or is it unfair or unethical?

Perhaps before making any critical comment, the contributing judging experts should post samples from their respective individual portfolios of excellence? From what I've seen, there's hardly an abundance of inspiration.


I too am surprised that this thread has been allowed to develop, after all who here knows what were the project circumstances/brief in which case it is unfair to developer and/or client.

A lack of professionalism on the part of some?

HurtLocker

omega42 wrote: »

the future of Longford Commerce is well

http://www.longfordchamber.ie/

Hahah :D:D
Reminds me of the webpage I designed in 4th year during computer class in the background while playing football heads and fantasy football :pac:! But mine was better :pac:

Just the Enter button... I cringed.
:D

Edit:just look at the email button. :pac: f*ckin hell.

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Sonnenblumen wrote: »

Perhaps before making any critical comment, the contributing judging experts should post samples from their respective individual portfolios of excellence? From what I've seen, there's hardly an abundance of inspiration.

Would you say the same to the posters in the Film forum?

Sonnenblumen wrote: »

I too am surprised that this thread has been allowed to develop, after all who here knows what were the project circumstances/brief in which case it is unfair to developer and/or client.

A lack of professionalism on the part of some?

This isn't a professional forum, it's an open one. Unless someone is posting in a professional capacity (if, say, the Blacknight rep came on) slating a site, then you might have a point.