Comments on: Why Greek Sites Suck #6: Reporter.gr

By: Yannis

Yannis — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:56:53 +0000

OK, I do this for a living. Not design mind you, but talk to the clients that pay for the sites. And they suck, and that’s why their sites suck, in fact they always choose the least imaginative designs. And designers subconsciously know this and offer a proposal that sucks (just to be safe). And yes they want banner space to make money to pay for the sucky site design. In fact its a self sustaining bad design thingimajibbie… ouf..

By: stathis

stathis — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:40:21 +0000

Well, Greek sites suck. Greek designers stuck at Web 1.0 suck too, as do post-Web 2.0 ones. Why do they not know how to design? BECAUSE THEY’RE FRIGGIN’ GREEKS.

Well, I am too, but I don’t suck so much – I think.

Let’s go into the Greek average net-surfer psychology. They see anything filled with blinking stuff as cool, and think that every site that has seventy nine point two banners is successful.

In the site you’re mentioning I especially like the G-ads mixed with the others, and the fact that the total height of the ads is nearly two times the height of the content.

God, they suck.

By: alexandros

alexandros — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:05 +0000

“Jesus web designer Christ on the advertising cross.”.. best rant-quote of the day

By: Svelon

Svelon — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:50:34 +0000

Is there any useful content in there somewhere?

By: stelios

stelios — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:15:07 +0000

correction: it came up after a couple of hours.

By: Nick Andrik

Nick Andrik — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:50:12 +0000

I see one on top (which is the company’s logo and it is “mildly” animated) and 3 small spinning on the left for the “new” labels.

For once more, I am happy with my ad block plus plugin. I don’t even dare to try the page without it.

By: stelios

stelios — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:10:51 +0000

I have a strong suspicion that your blog posts don’t show up in my rss reader..