WHAT YEAR IS IT?!?!

[raudf]

I'd say set them up a Geocities site and see if that make 'em happy. Sites like that are why the little red X box in the corner exist.

[Kit-Ginevra]

'Professional' and 'neon orange' do not go together... not unless your site is about to burst into Flashdance. Pink on the other hand is fluttershy-cutey

[Ben_Who]

Yay, it's 1998 again! That means I'm earning more than I ever have and ever will. My parents are healthy again, my neighbors are sane, and my sister just had a sweet little baby girl.

OTOH, no new Doctor Who for seven years...Eh, I think I'll go back to 2013. At least they can design a website there.

[Seshat]

'Professional' and 'neon orange' do not go together...

Actually they do ... if you're using or designing safety gear. And even then, I'd describe the colour as 'safety orange', not 'neon orange'. So .. yeah.


Poor Seraph.

[RootedPhoenix]

professional + neon orange + glitter-shiny-YAAAY!1! = Professionally speaking, we hate your eyes.

[ComputerNecromancer]

"What about autoplaying music, customers probably LOVE to listen to rock, maybe even a radio!"

"Can we put an autoplaying video on the side too? That way its always running, and they always can see how good we are?"

My blind friend *loathes* sites with autoplay *anything*. They make it impossible to hear her screen reader read the page to her. Which kinda defeats the purpose of having a site in the first place.

[Jester]

Are these people trying to sell water heaters, or convince people they don't need water heaters. Hard to say from what they are asking for in a site.

IANAHM (I Am Not A Handy Man), and I know shit about water heaters beyond the fact that they make my dishwasher and morning showers possible, but I DO know that if I was looking for someone to sell me one, install one, or repair one, the website they have described would be guaranteed to make me quickly move on to the next one.

Hell, it almost sounds as if their competitors are designing their website to make the competitors look better by comparison!

[Argus]

So, the water heater in your home isn't supposed to be flashing, maybe spinning, and sparkling?

This comes to mind.

[Draper Mel]

If there are any pages that aren't finished yet, put a yellow triangular sign with a stick figure guy digging a hole on them and the phrase "Under Construction".

And check around and see if there are any webrings we can join. Kids love webrings.

[HawaiianShirts]

"Can we put an autoplaying video on the side too? That way its always running, and they always can see how good we are?"

At work the other day, I had to visit the website of one of the organizations that my employer collects data from. The home page was full of apostrophe errors, and it had an auto-playing pop-over video of some guy in a suit blathering about the benefits of doing business with this company. The video wouldn't let me close it until 30 seconds in. Color me annoyed. At least my work computer has no speakers.

Of course, what I needed was not on the home page, and their navigation links weren't very descriptive, so I had to click around to find what I wanted. The auto-play video was on EVERY PAGE!

I finally gave up, slogged through three more pages of nonsense to find their phone number, and called them.

[Moirae]

Reminds me of the original website when the owner of my hotel took over another hotel. The website had loads of gaudy and childish animations and stuff on it. It looked like it was made in the early 90's by a child and even then... it was just painful to look at. The owner got rid of it within a couple days of taking over. What replaced it wasn't much better but it was better. A few months later, he replaced it with a professionally built site.

I don't know what's wrong with people.

[mhkohne]

At work the other day, I had to visit the website of one of the organizations that my employer collects data from. The home page was full of apostrophe errors, and it had an auto-playing pop-over video of some guy in a suit blathering about the benefits of doing business with this company. The video wouldn't let me close it until 30 seconds in. Color me annoyed. At least my work computer has no speakers.

Of course, what I needed was not on the home page, and their navigation links weren't very descriptive, so I had to click around to find what I wanted. The auto-play video was on EVERY PAGE!

I finally gave up, slogged through three more pages of nonsense to find their phone number, and called them.

Between the auto-play video nonsense on every news site, and all the dang ads that try to do stuff, I've turned javascript off by default, and I have an extension in chrome that lets me turn it on/off om the fly.

I hit a lot of pages that just won't load, but I get to decide when they get to do stuff.

[raudf]

If it doesn't load, chances are I don't want to see it.

Whatever happened to reading a news article? Now, most written articles have an autoplaying video with it.. which makes the written part redundant. Autoplay off is hit or miss and good grief, the video is irritating. I want just the "facts," I don't need a news caster adding their color to those "facts." Besides, if I want to see video, I'd watch the farking station on satellite and save the bandwidth!

[Alpha Strike]

Evidently it's 1999 again. And this person wants their customers to think they sell Vegas-ready Daleks instead of water heaters.

I have no idea what a "Vegas-ready" Dalek is but it sounds awesome!

[dalesys]

I have no idea what a "Vegas-ready" Dalek is but it sounds awesome!

Enough of dasblinkenlights to outshine the sun strobing with enough power to give a tree an epileptic attack.