Help me explain why this web design is horrible
- Started
- Last post
- 43 Responses
- jenray
I'm trying to convince a friend that the site someone made for his business looks terrible and he needs to seriously reconsider some choices within it.
Please help me by listing all the reasons you can think of that this site is unacceptable.
Thank you
- jenray0
heh, oops.
- cosmo0
do
it
your
self.
- OSFA0
I would tell him he needs a link so that people can visit it....
- neue75_bold0
- lacks genuine mirth...
- Nairn0
heh, cosmo - i was just about to say - why not mock up a better version and prove it out-right?
- jenray0
I have done it myself, he doesn't seem to be convinced, thanks.
Also, the link is in the first response, I forgot to put it in the post.
Here it is again.
http://www.rukusapparel.com/
- TheBlueOne0
I think it speaks for itself.
Wow, the Edie shirt is only $26! I better order that right away...
- mg330
1) Logo is terrible in execution alone, but even worse when it's over a background where you can't read it.
I do like the shape of the fading pictures though. Too bad it's not blended in with more graphics or something.
- cosmo0
hehe, nairn cool people think alike.
- Jaline0
so.
much.
airbrushing.
- jenray0
I had someone mock up a better one as well, and it looks great. He thinks that one looks "generic" because it doesn't use "cool fonts" like his.
I asked here so I could show him that other people agree.
Or disagree..
- TheBlueOne0
You need new friends. Preferably ones that have something resembling taste and aren't completely fucking blind.
And that site? It needs more whimsy. Not enough whimsy.
- melq0
if your friend can't tell that sucks then you should just save yourself the headache and let it be.
- TheBlueOne0
And this friend designs these t-shirts?
If the answer is "yes" than that explains alot...
- jenray0
I don't know if he's so much a friend, I'm just trying to help him out.
My friends are good designers/like good design.
That shit is just PAINFUL and I don't seem to be getting through to him.
- ********0
just tell him it's graphically similar to string-emil.de
- cosmo0
I mean seriously, if he/she can't see the difference between a good and bad layout. Let him/her have that site.
Show other sites based on the same concept. Maybe that will change the outlook.
- jenray0
wow, unfortunately http://string-emil.de/ is superior to his site I think.
- spl33nidoru0
if your friend can't tell that sucks then you should just save yourself the headache and let it be.
melq
(Apr 23 07, 12:42)
- jenray0
Yeah, you're right. I don't know why I'm bothering. I think it's just blowing my mind that someone can't see how bad it is, and that I can't explain to him why that font is not "cool", etc.