Re: see what a bad web site can do?

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:16:04 +0200, "TheM" <DontNeedSpam@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"Le Chaud Lapin" <jaibuduvin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:275b792a-1590-4718-a369-2b00ec8f5150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Oct 22, 2:25 pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=MSWIDJQTBK5MQQSND...


Thinking of bad websites, a few days ago, someone was poo-pooing Casio
PDA's, so I decided to go to their site to see if it was true. I was
appalled at what I saw:

http://www.casio.com/

I clicked on the "English (other countries)" link. My skills in
graphic design are not only lacking, they are non-existent, but this
site is downright ugly. All that prison-wall-blue. It looks like it
was designed by someone who never ventures out of the confines of his
own mind.

For the first time in my life, I decided to notify a web master about
how ugly his site is5. But...[warning: prejudicial remarks
forthcoming]: ...I suspected that, in Japan, this nasty-looking color
might be a favorited, so anything said to webmaster would probably
fall on deaf ears. I decided I would call the USA subsidiary instead.

I don't mind this shade of blue. I find the site very responsive, you get
to the particular product very fast. Overall I don't see the problem.
I've seen much worse sites, ok initial page where you select the country
is kind of ugly.

If you were my customer I'd think you're a real *** to go through
this much trouble to express unfounded opinion.

M


The Philips and later NXP sites were notoriously engineer-hostile.
You're probably too young to remember.

If you tell me what you sell, I'll make sure we don't buy any.

John

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