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Sunday, 21 September 2014

Dumb Web Design


Amongst some of the annoyances you find on the Internet, over cluttered, over busy websites, can be as much an annoyance as unnecessary and continuous pop-ups. Personally, when undertaking a search I want to follow a thread not have the whole bloody sewing box shoved in my face.
I was going to highlight some of the websites I considered particularly awful but then thought of something more desirable.
All the search engines have a favourite and/or bookmark button. So why can’t these brilliant browser designers come up with an alternative button that basically says that this is a crappy website and I never want to see it again. Ideally, it would automatically block any access to that website either directly or by link. Don’t you think that would be useful? I would.

So,just for fun, I came up with the button above, which I called the Dumb Web Design button. When clicked it would not only block the website but send a message back to the company or organisation recognising the fact that someone disliked their site enough to use it.
Please note: THE ABOVE BUTTON DOES NOT WORK. I do not have the coding skills but I just designed something funny to get the point across.
This could start a whole new trend.  How about the, Clear Revolting Ads Please (CRAP) button or the This Website Is Terrible (TWIT) button? Maybe we could get some control back and send a message to the Webmasters our true feelings and save ourselves numerous unnecessary mouse clicks to boot.

Just a thought.

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