Learn good design by looking at bad design.

I Find Karma (adam@cs.caltech.edu)
Thu, 16 Jan 97 22:51:02 PST


Try
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

or just shortcut to
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/home.html
if you have no patience.

> Once, not so long ago, it was OK for your web page's
> address to be a virtual path -- http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/ .
> Now, if you don't have your own domain, people don't
> feel your company is the kind of company they want to
> do business with. The same is true about the look of your
> web page. Once, it was OK to slap any old thing up there
> and be done with it. Now, people look at a poorly
> designed site and ask, "Do we want to do business with
> them?" Upside magazine phrased it best when it
> discussed the importance of marketing, "Word of mouth,
> frequency of press appearances, Web site quality and the
> frequency and quality of advertisements all serve to
> create the image of a 'real company.'"

You mean it isn't okay to slap any old thing up there
and be done with it?

Fast forward to the Awards page
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/awards.htm
According to Megan, I can bestow awards on FoRK.

Checking out...
http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/icon.html
I hereby grant FoRK the "Stop Kitty Porn" Award and the
"Carpal Tunnel" Site of the Week. Stick em up, baby.

http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/kitty.gif
http://www.thecorporation.com/icon/carpal.gif

So Rohit, how does it feel to have college applications out
of the way (again)?

Adam

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adam@cs.caltech.edu

Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?