# Glurge Web Design 101 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 26, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574 "2002-08-26T04:34:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/1 "2002-08-26T04:34:48Z")
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: 1. A page devoted to the owner’s cats 2. Lots of stock clip art 3. Flowery background and graphics 4. Very long pages 5. Forced background MIDI 6. Poetry, usually sappy 7. “Christ Jesus” mentioned several times 8. Tons of oversized, poorly designed “awards,” most equally flowery 9. Lots of links to equally glurgey Web sites 10. 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? ---
**Author:** ![Netbrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71e660/32.png) [@Netbrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Netbrian)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/2 "2002-08-26T06:08:43Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/3 "2002-08-26T08:25:19Z")
and animation of some sort. Angels, waterfalls, butterflies… _shudder_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/4 "2002-08-26T09:30:04Z")
How about the conspiracy theory ones? Rules: 1. Background must be black. 2. Text must be predominantly green. 3. Text size huge in places. 4. A nightmarish jumble of fonts, colors, caps 5. Copious use of the image border tag. 6. EXCLAMATION MARKS!!! ---
**Author:** ![Avoid\_Freud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5fc32e/32.png) [@Avoid\_Freud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avoid_Freud)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/5 "2002-08-26T10:11:04Z")
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 \. 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. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/6 "2002-08-26T14:56:00Z")
Dont forget mouse cursers with butterflies or sparkles following it around. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/7 "2002-08-26T15:09:13Z")
Or a word following it around where all the letters trail after it. GAAHH!!! ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/8 "2002-08-26T16:12:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/9 "2002-08-26T16:40:33Z")
Several years ago I wrote a little piece on [Tacky Website Disorder](http://www.geocities.com/yellowlamia/babble/badweb.html), and I think the situation has only gotten worse. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/10 "2002-08-26T16:40:36Z")
Good, thick, syrupy sites … [http://www.geocities.com/halogirl\_24/links.html](http://www.geocities.com/halogirl_24/links.html) [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4328/indexpg2.html](http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/4328/indexpg2.html) [http://www.perfectsites.com/Sandy/](http://www.perfectsites.com/Sandy/) [http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4602/Home.html](http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4602/Home.html) [http://www.geocities.com/elainemarieslittlelantern/](http://www.geocities.com/elainemarieslittlelantern/) ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glurge-web-design-101/125574/11 "2002-08-27T05:04:27Z")
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. 😃