Anyone else noticing a trend among many in creating Web sites that are over-the-top glurgey and kountry kitschy?
Some signs of a truly glurgely Web site seem to include:
A page devoted to the owner’s cats
Lots of stock clip art
Flowery background and graphics
Very long pages
Forced background MIDI
Poetry, usually sappy
“Christ Jesus” mentioned several times
Tons of oversized, poorly designed “awards,” most equally flowery
Lots of links to equally glurgey Web sites
Creator is typially a woman in the Southern United States, in a low-paying occupation i.e. daycare, home healthcare aide
What’s the glurgiest Web site out there?
You forgot how they’ll often use a photograph as a background for the site, making things practically unreadable. And use horrible, horrible color schemes. Lots and lots of emoticons are a must too.
and animation of some sort. Angels, waterfalls, butterflies…
shudder
jjimm
August 26, 2002, 9:30am
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How about the conspiracy theory ones?
Rules:
Background must be black.
Text must be predominantly green.
Text size huge in places.
A nightmarish jumble of fonts, colors, caps
Copious use of the image border tag.
EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!
Oh my, I have a glurgy web site.
I put it up about five years ago, and haven’t updated the look of it in at least three.
One page is about family cats <shudder>. Pictures dating back to 1945. I did update this page a year ago, so my new kitty is right at the top.
Glurgy o not, it’s staying exactly like it is.
Dont forget mouse cursers with butterflies or sparkles following it around.
Or a word following it around where all the letters trail after it. GAAHH!!!
Blinking text–especially if the colors clash.
And not just stock clipart, but horribly distored stock clipart–for example, a piece that is one inch wide and six inches tall.
Lamia
August 26, 2002, 4:40pm
9
Several years ago I wrote a little piece on Tacky Website Disorder , and I think the situation has only gotten worse.
And you’re noticing this now ?
I’ve watched this crap continue to grow and mutate since before Netscape 1.0.
If anything, it’s gotten much worse since IE was introduced.
