Comments on: Hand-Coding Wanted for “Bad” Design

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:54:30 +0000

Hi Im actually beeboy From ogilvy and thats me on the internet and commercial and I’d just like to prove that to you by saying there will be a new commercial in January or Febuary

By: chris

chris — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:09:16 +0000

“there are so many web templates and publishing aids available now that it is actually very difficult to create a site like this one unless you can make HTML code by hand.”

what a hoot!…one look at the code suggests it was put together using something akin to dreamweaver…code like this is very easy to output with ‘publishing aids’…

no self-respecting, professional hand-coder would output code as atrocious as this…hand-coding is to be esteemed and aspired to…it helps you learn html code better…oh, and web developers with a propensity for semantic html and web standards would never output code like this either…

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:28:46 +0000

I do agree that we do need to take a step back. But how far? I think the “beeboy” site is a deliberate example of a lot of sites still out there with the clipart mailbox. Also the Levi site mentioned it terrible. There is no way I would even stay on the site. It appears to scroll side to side (yet does not allow it) and the navigation is confusing to say the least. I have no idea on what they want me to do, or how to access anything useful.

If this is the way design should go, I want no part of it. I too do not like the greasy look of web2.0 but please don’t go back to far.