Why Greek Sites Suck #5: Fridays.gr
Ah, Fridays, Fridays. Home of all things pricey food, cheap quality. Everything a true glutton wants and more.
Why a company would go with a life-metaphor site is beyond me. Fridays.gr is an awesome red, cartoonish creation that tries to accomplish the drive-in look - the fact that drive-ins don’t even exist in Greece never crossed the advertiser’s mind.
In front of the Illustrator-made screen there are parked cars, on hovering them with the mouse you can see them moving, you think hey, they want to be clicked! You click, nothing happens.
You hover the screen, it flashes up, maybe it wants to be clicked? You click, nothing happens.
When you manage to find a proper clickable area, you have to wait again for the new page to load, the screen to come closer, the clouds gather again up there. *yawn*
Getting to a page with actual content, you find out that it can be scrolled up and down with a custom, Flash gem of a scroller. Classy.
Aaaaaaand that’s the “Your opinion matters” poll. Bonus points to everyone that actually manages to fill in the damn thing.
And it’s all made in Flash, of course. It took a little over two minutes to load. No, really.
Anyone want gyros? It’s on me.
September 8th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Hmmm… now that you mentioned gyros are you familiar with any greek Souvlaki site in the Internets?
September 9th, 2008 at 12:18 am
Hey sugar
Glad to read a post like that…
Altough your pictures are not working right
September 9th, 2008 at 8:38 am
You beat me to it. I was going to write something about the site.
I tried to find some info about one store of Friday’s 3 days ago and managed to go to the site. At first I couldn’t believe my eyes. But then it was reality. I remembered it was a bit different, strange maybe but usable.
But now it looks like a project done by a student for practice. Want to browse through the pages and find something? No. You have to read everything or wait until the text ends. Back to the top? Again wait… Search? Why? so you can find everything you want fast and leave? Copy text? No, because you may steal our precious recipes.
But now I’m thinking that maybe they wanted something to remind them of the 90’s. Because the site is so 90’s…
Ah… What the heck. Again we only make a buzz for nothing. As if we are going to be heard…
September 9th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
@Eleftherios
Sorry, nope
@Basilis
I think they’re ok now. Blame me for replacing the wp-content folder with the default Wordpress one.