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Website Nightmares

Feb 4

ToddDesign, New Project, Programming, Web, Work accessibility, internet, new hamsphire, nightmares, usability, Web, website No Comments

Do you ever watch the show Kitchen Nightmares (either US or UK) with Gordon Ramsay? I do. It’s a great show and no matter how much of an ass or jerk he comes off to be, he always does it in the best interest of the owner(s) he is trying to assist.

Bluntly, no sugar coating or dancing around in circles he tells these people what it is and what the facts are. They need to hear it that way or change will never come and they will be stuck in the same rut as they have been for X amount of years.

This got me thinking as I ventured around the net looking at internet nightmares like I have. It really got my gears turning when I saw some of the disgusting garbage I saw over the course of the past couple weeks. Especially from “designers” and “design firms” that reside in the same state I live in, New Hampshire. They however, seem to reside in the state of ignorant bliss and love to slap horrors together with Front Page or IMVU and call it a day, charging clients and customers with exorbitant amounts of money.

One even called themselves an “SEO expert” and made a seemingly busy and popular site with tables for layout. Something I thought “professionals” got out of the habit of doing many, many moons ago. The 90’s to be exact. Never mind the fact that i think “SEO expert” is a crock of garbage and it’s all about how you code a site and the structure, usability and accessibility of that site that makes it popular, not 7,000 keywords and a block of meta info the size of the New York City phone book.

So… onto what I was thinking. Well, I don’t know if I should give that away, but I will say, that I plan on doing something similar to the show Kitchen Nightmares. I’d get a separate domain, but feel like one is enough.

Look for the six03 version of “Website Nightmares” coming to a browser in front of you.