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Casual Articles - Six and a Half Keys to Creating an Ugly Web Site
For many years my family owned one of the most influential retail wine operations in the country. Maria was our Italian wine expert, and she loved Italian wines, as well as many other varieties (actually only Italian wines, come to think of it!). To her, Italy wasn’t the center of the fashion world; it was, without question, the center of the food and wine universe!Maria left our company to work at a wine importer. The company had an exquisite portfolio of Italian wines. She was excited to try h
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I al
As the old adage goes, a good beginning is half the battle won. And when it is a matter of battles to be won in the corporate sector, a good start is an absolute must. It is important to have a good impact not only on your clients, but also your shareholders, your employees and also all the other people who are associated with your company in some or the other way.This holds true particularly for meetings and events of your company, which often act as the interface between the company and the variou
Let’s put brown, purple and orange on the same site and see what people think. I don’t know who designed some sites, but they must have never learned about complementary colors on the color wheel. Or if a designer hasn’t chosen non-complementary colors, they choose to put too many colors on the page. It’s almost as if a rainbow had vomited on your computer screen. There are colors everywhere. If you want an ugly web site, put as many colors as you can think of to design with, go crazy. You might win an ugliest web site contest.
2. Use Too Much Movement
When I first started designing web sites in 1996, one of the cool things people did on sites was to have blinking text or rolling text within the page. I worked on a site this past year that had three animated .gifs that boggled the eyes. I was able to convince the client to lose one of them, but it still creates havoc on a visitor’s eyes. If you want an ugly web site, may sure you have at the very least three graphics moving in some fashion.
3. Don’t Have Good Navigation
There are sites out on the Net that don’t have navigation on every page. You have to use the back button to get back to the previous page. Other sites also have different navigation on the pages so you get lost. So if you want to have an ugly web site, have inconsistent or non-existent navigation. This will surely irritate your visitors.
4. Use Images that are Not Optimized
Graphics on web sites don’t need to be greater than 72 d.p.i. (dots per inch). Some people create graphics on their site that they’ve blown up graphics from small graphics. This creates jaggedy edges on the graphics. There are also sites that don’t optimize their graphics so they appear faded or pixilated. They have run the graphic through an optimizer but it didn’t quite work. Feel free to use any of these tips if you truly want an ugly web site. BTW, you can also badly scanned photographs that are too dark or have crud on them.
5. Don’t Take into Consideration People have Different Sized Monitors
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I als
Everyone wants to succeed in life. And no one starts a business of any sort, on-line or off-line, wanting to fail.Yet the sad fact is that 80% of offline and 97% of internet businesses will fail in the first year. 84% of internet businesses will never make any income at all.So what can you do to ensure your success?Luckily these four simple (never confuse simple with easy), tried and tested steps dramatically increases your chances.1. Set Out Your GoalsSuccess means some
2. Use Too Much Movement
When I first started designing web sites in 1996, one of the cool things people did on sites was to have blinking text or rolling text within the page. I worked on a site this past year that had three animated .gifs that boggled the eyes. I was able to convince the client to lose one of them, but it still creates havoc on a visitor’s eyes. If you want an ugly web site, may sure you have at the very least three graphics moving in some fashion.
3. Don’t Have Good Navigation
There are sites out on the Net that don’t have navigation on every page. You have to use the back button to get back to the previous page. Other sites also have different navigation on the pages so you get lost. So if you want to have an ugly web site, have inconsistent or non-existent navigation. This will surely irritate your visitors.
4. Use Images that are Not Optimized
Graphics on web sites don’t need to be greater than 72 d.p.i. (dots per inch). Some people create graphics on their site that they’ve blown up graphics from small graphics. This creates jaggedy edges on the graphics. There are also sites that don’t optimize their graphics so they appear faded or pixilated. They have run the graphic through an optimizer but it didn’t quite work. Feel free to use any of these tips if you truly want an ugly web site. BTW, you can also badly scanned photographs that are too dark or have crud on them.
5. Don’t Take into Consideration People have Different Sized Monitors
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I al
All businesses must advertise and that includes small businesses that you would never consider. For instance Taco Stands need to advertise and if you notice that is why they usually have rather large funky signs to attract customers and yes this is affective, but it takes more than simple signage to maintain the customer base needed to propel such a small business and insure their success.Taco Stands must consider localized, affective ways to advertise on a shoe string and they must capitalize on su
3. Don’t Have Good Navigation
There are sites out on the Net that don’t have navigation on every page. You have to use the back button to get back to the previous page. Other sites also have different navigation on the pages so you get lost. So if you want to have an ugly web site, have inconsistent or non-existent navigation. This will surely irritate your visitors.
4. Use Images that are Not Optimized
Graphics on web sites don’t need to be greater than 72 d.p.i. (dots per inch). Some people create graphics on their site that they’ve blown up graphics from small graphics. This creates jaggedy edges on the graphics. There are also sites that don’t optimize their graphics so they appear faded or pixilated. They have run the graphic through an optimizer but it didn’t quite work. Feel free to use any of these tips if you truly want an ugly web site. BTW, you can also badly scanned photographs that are too dark or have crud on them.
5. Don’t Take into Consideration People have Different Sized Monitors
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I al
Develop your skills and talents to perfection and outsource what you lack. If you have a talent for writing, become the perfect salesletterwriter and if you don't know how to build a web site let an expert do that for you. By using education and outsourcing all tasks in your business are done well and you stay ahead of your competitors.1. Your Objective and StrategyIf you organize your business you formulate an objective and develop a strategy to reach that objective. You also define the tool
5. Don’t Take into Consideration People have Different Sized Monitors
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I al
In my previous article entitled: Market and Customer focus - Baldrige Assessment Case Studies for Category 3, I shared about common assessment findings of several companies being assessed by a group of trained and experienced assessors. In this article, I will provide similar findings but on Information and Analysis, of the Baldrige Criteria. It is provided in the form of case studies which include Criteria summary as described in year 2001 Baldrige Criteria, assessment findings in terms of Streng
People have different sized monitors and they have their screen set to different resolutions—like 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, 1280 x 1024, and 1600 x 1200. These are all in pixels. Some ugly web designers set their width at 100 percent, which can really make the site look ugly for people who have their screens set at a higher resolution. I normally set the width for my pages at 765 pixels wide (so it shows up okay in an 800 pixel width resolution). I also like to center it, even though it can create gaps on either side. There are some who set the width at wider and it can cause scrolling or bunch up the graphics in an odd fashion. If you’re serious about designing an ugly site, please set your width at 100 percent.
6. Have a Distracting Background
I have a client who sends me emails that are a template from her Outlook. When I reply, the template blends in with my words and make it difficult to read. The same thing will happen to you when you have a distracting background. Some ugly web designers like to put a watermark of some sort in the background. I don’t mind these if they aren’t too dark. The times I’ve done these, I set them at about eight percent gradient and then have them a neutral color. It can look cool if done writing. And it usually helps if it’s a more solid logo or image. But if you want to have a truly ugly web site, have a darker, distracting background.
6.5. Have a Silly Splash Page that Does Nothing for Your Site
Most of the people I talk with about web sites hate Flash splash pages. It normally doesn’t add anything to the site and just wastes time. Nobody wants to waste their time on something that’s useless. I like to reserve Flash for the top of the page, navigation or a tutorial within the site.
So, I think you’re ready to go out there and create an ugly web site. Just use my easy six and a half steps, and you will be the proud owner of a truly ugly web site in no time. I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
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