Archive for July 21st, 2008

Why Greek Sites Suck #4: Ad-network.gr

Monday, July 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm

You missed WGSS didn’t you? You didn’t? Nice.

‘Cause it’s here again. I couldn’t let this roam free in the ‘nets.

For those not understanding greek or those that refuse to reopen the above page in a tab, it’s an online advertising firm or something, offering marketing solutions even to bloggers. Would you let those people near your blog? I wouldn’t even let them touch my laptop bag.

So without further ado, let’s count the ways this little gem here sucks:

  • All the text in this site - and I mean all - is an image. With a hover effect. That makes the text more pale on hovering.

  • If you look a bit at the code, you see that everything is probably generated by Macromedia Dreamweaver. Which is bad, bad, bad. DW is a great editor and can be a pretty nice WYSIWYG application, but Christ, no.

  • You cannot really say what’s linkable and what’s not on navigation. Everything is white - no underline or difference in colour or size.
  • There’s a strange effect: if you click on the text of a page, it automatically redirects you to the next one. Pure class.
  • <td colspan="16" rowspan="14">. ‘Nuff said.

Well, as you see, somewhere along the way these guys messed it up. This is usually the moment when I advise people to just switch off the PC and head for a walk, or paint, or learn chinese.

I do that to myself too, all the time.

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by Sugar