Anything is Better Than Working

To avoid starting work this morning, I decided to browse the internet for my 2 good websites and 2 bad ones.

So far, I found a purposely bad website that is called Web Pages That Suck. The author, Vincent Flander claims you can learn good design by checking out bad design. It has a blog area that is up to today's date in which he comments on bad websites for the day and whatever else he needs to say. I found it amusing with helpful links and tools for web design. I haven't decided if it would still be considered a bad website for class example or a good website since it is bad on purpose.

Bad Webpages
I stole this webpage off of the website above for an example of a bad website. Before reading their explanation, I checked it out myself and came to the same conclusion. The website is for a company called Brite Vision Technologies for an IT website they should probably fire whoever they had design the webpage. It uses the frames design and some of the frames are in the PDF format which also takes forever to load which is pretty bad because I am on my work computer and it has cable internet. I could have designed a better website than this.

In looking for bad website, I found The Worst of the Web which is supposed to be reviewing bad websites that readers submit but I think that the website itself isn't that great. It say updated daily but once you find the archives you are looking for there are maybe 2-5 updates a month in the past year. There are 3 cartoon guys, Buzz, Melvin, & Chip, that give their comments of the page of the day (or month in their case) and even the comments are annoying. At first what to do on the website isn't entirly clear and right before I said, "Screw this site, it's stupid," I found the archives. They do have quite a few example of bad websites though.

Good Webpages
I'm using The Onion as an example of a good website. Automatically on viewing you can tell that it is a news related website by the way it is layed out to look like a news paper. There are 3 columns of information and there isn't too much text to find what you want to read. It is easy to follow and has very funny/interesting content. The website is easy to navigate and find your way back to where you were originally.

Another website I chose for good design is RottenTomatoes.com it is a movie review/information website. The homepage has statistics and current release information along with an easy to navigate site for information about every other movie. My only complaint is that it's kind of a puke green color (or the color of rotten tomatoes) but it's nothing too bad that would make you not want to view it.