Awful Sega Websites
Just what the internet really needed. More Sega Freaks doing fantasticly stupid things. Now they have websites too.
Usually I just wouldn't visit these type of sites but often the best way to advertise is to go to these peoples sites and post links in their guest books to get the morons who would actually visit these sites on purpose to see my link. Although this gets me lots of visitors the downside is that the visitors I get don't want to read the site they just want to insult me through my guestbook.
Some of these DC sites I have to visit are just so awful that I have to mention them on my site somehow. I used to post it on my main page in the news but that just falls off the main page eventually so I needed a spot to insult the stupidity of these sites full time. Here it is.
Animated GIFs, Flashing backgrounds, MIDI Music and worse...
Is your page on my list? Want to know why?
If my summary of your awful website didn't spell it out clearly enough for you then the likely reason is that you have committed one of The Seven Deadly Sins of Web Design. Click the link to see the detailed list but to sum it up for you the things most likely to piss me off are:
1. Animated .gifs
Animated .gifs are the plastic pink flamingos of the web world. Decorations of questionable value. An animated .gif does add motion to a page -- but is a rotating, flaming email icon really enhancing a page when the visitor has to sit through a longer download ? How impressed is the reader seeing your whirling, pulsating "New" icon for the fifteenth time?
2. Background Images
The purpose of your site is to present information to your audience in an effective manner. Make sure that your background image doesn't make your text difficult to read. Gift wrapping paper makes bad stationary.
3. Links to pages that don't exist!
Contrary to what jokers like Paulos and Cmikeska might tell you, those animated under construction images are NOT a valid substitute for actual content.
4. MIDI music
MIDI music isn't very good to begin with. And you really don't need a different one playing on every page of your site! To make matters worse, many sites don't provide any way to control the volume or turn the music off.
5. Failure to keep your site up to date
It's been said that Web site creation and procreation have something in common -- that the act of creation is much more exciting than the care and feeding that inevitably follows. Too many Sega fans post awful websites, rant about how great any given Sega system was, and then dissapear into the void, leaving their flashing, whirling, pulsating opinion to its own devices.
All of the above issues are really easy to fix. But if none of those apply to you then I must have simply found your content retarded. I mean, really, does anyone on the internet need to see what kind of shelf you keep your game collection on or your furry porn drawing of sonic and tails? I think not.