Why Greek Sites Suck #2: AutoTriti.gr
You know it’s that time of the year.
The time when I’m getting the November blues, or I’m getting too stressed, or I’m on PMS or whatever. The “Why Greek sites suck” saga is here.
Since I was recently on the market for a used car, I turned to the one medium that feels easier to me, which is of course the mighty interwebs. The Boyfriend suggested that I should check out the Autotriti.gr site, that is a site of greek driving magazine, that supposedly features a full-scale gallery of used cars, along with a convenient search form.
And so I did - mind you, I only wanted to check prices according to the criteria I had set.
First of all, in my teeny tiny (well, not THAT much) 13” Macbook screen, truth is, you really cannot see much in their frontpage, apart maybe huge ugly ads and pointless ugly imagery.
Hovering the menu items hides its text in Safari - classy.
So I decide to conduct an advanced research, woe is me. But wait - my page has gone all the way to the right (from all the way to the left, plus, half of my page is conquered by an ugly ad which I cannot turn off, with sound which is default on to top it off.
As you can see, to see the content I have to scroll horizontally. What were these people thinking, really (apart from the advertising money).
Ok then, to the search. You think this form looks too simple? Wait till you see that:
You know how I did that? By selecting an option one page at a time. That means, in the first page, I select the brand, phoosh, refresh, I have to select a model, phoosh, refresh, I have to select the cc, et cetera. Really, you have to try it to believe it. And of course, restarting the search procedure does not work.
On a geekier note, each and every one of the search terms is passed in the query string as a GET variable. That means over 20 vars up there, after a while. *sigh*
I don’t know how these sites have users. I cannot possibly understand how. Am I too strict? Maybe. Will I ever be close to the naive user webmaster? Never.
