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Feb 6, 2003 | 02:06 PM

veloLexus

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phpwebhosting... thanks SD

I registered 4 domains with joker.com (they seemed to be the cheapest) and setup my site with phpwebhosting. They have a pretty good feature set for the price and were easy to deal with.

So, www.qnotephoto.com has been hatched (don't bother, there's not much on it at the moment). Now it's my turn to design an annoying website. You know the type... things like "click here to enter", attempts at abstract "art" where the buttons and UI components aren't named, oh yeah... LOTS OF POPUPS, especially the style that are designed to look like windows dialog boxes that trick you into clicking them when they're really a button redirecting you to another website for the sole pupose of really pissing you off and I really ought to throw some punctuation in here because this sentence has really overstayed its welcome (and I'm really using the word "really" too much) and here it comes.... PERIOD! (no... exclamation point).

So far my top pick for MOST ANNOYING WEBSITE ON THE PLANET:

http://www.salomonsports.com/

I dare you to try and find information on the 1080 freestyle skis without jumping through hoops and swallowing fire.

Cheers, Joe

Feb 6, 2003 | 03:21 PM

ish

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Re: phpwebhosting... thanks SD

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Originally posted by veloLexus

I dare you to try and find information on the 1080 freestyle skis without jumping through hoops and swallowing fire.

only took me a few minutes. not too bad. its a nice website (lots of animation) but really busy with a lot of stuff. it could easily be taken down a notch or two

Feb 6, 2003 | 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by wrx ish
only took me a few minutes. not too bad. its a nice website (lots of animation) but really busy with a lot of stuff. it could easily be taken down a notch or two

I'm on DSL and it doesn't take me too long to find it either but I bet it's a horrid experience for a dialup user. From a user interface standpoint the Salomon website is one of the worst. If it takes me more than 15 seconds to go to a website and find the product I'm looking for and have all the data loaded on my screen then there is something seriously wrong with the design. In addition the icons are HORRIBLY implemented. Gray on gray doesn't give a user enough contrast to realize that it's actually part of the user interface. Grayed out icons and text generally indicate that an option is not available. In addition they have that bright green product selector attracting your attention so that's most likely what people are going to click on first. I'm sure that's what they're hoping as it causes the user to unknowingly participate in a market survey (it asks questions about your body measurements, etc.). BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD WEBSITE.

They make awesome skis boots and bindings though, I love my XScream 9's and XScream boots.

Cheers, Joe

Feb 6, 2003 | 05:14 PM

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that's one of the problems of the web.

when it first got "popular," every company wanted to have their website like what solomon did. lots of animation and FLUFF.

unfortunately, people wanted it now and yesterday. at first, dialup was the only way.

but the web designers had a fast connection and blank check to do just about everything. and corporations also had a fast connection and liked all the FLUFF.

a few years ago, even the place where i worked, the main web page had a rotating graphic on it. as a dial up user, it took forever to load.

so i screamed about it and asked for a text only option. about a year later, it did.

i had the same problem with specialized bikes. holy cow. and i knew the dude who headed up the web dept of them too...

btw, if anyone needs some PHP scripting (programming), lemme know... i work for peanuts...

(php, mysql and apache)

Feb 6, 2003 | 06:27 PM

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make sure to take advantage of all the cool tools they have... like:

- mailing lists.
- your own domain's email address like joethephotodude@blahblah.com
- php enabled and mysql.