# Ridiculously tacky web pages. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149 "2001-10-23T19:36:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/41 "2002-08-03T18:35:49Z")
Yall know that the text on the bottom of the “Hatt-baby” flash is Swedish yeah? Its a huge trend from about 2 years ago in Sweden to take greek, turkish, etc songs and put “swedish” lyrics to them, if you read the text then the lyrics _really_ sound like what the text. So the song goes, “They hat is yours, the hat is yours hat-baby. The hat is funny, the hat is funny, etc…” I must have seen a hundred different ones last year, and they were all hysterically funny 🙂 Podkayne, that link supposed to go to a korean hardcore porn website? Cos it does you know 🙂 AlbertRose ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/42 "2002-08-03T19:03:21Z")
Don’t let 'em get you down, **Esprix** , I think you’re darned cute as Linus and they’re all just jealous:D ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/43 "2002-08-03T19:12:26Z")
OK, I dunno about you guys, but Podkayne sent me to “Hardcore Asian Porn”. Lookout, folks. S’been reported to a mod. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/44 "2002-08-03T19:30:38Z")
Me too, but it’s gotta be a mistake. (It doesn’t even fit **podkayne** ’s description!) I once clicked a link that was supposed to take me to a description of an episode of the old _Ellery Queen_ show, and ended up at a porn site. 😕 But yeah, if a mod could disable that link, it’d sure be nice. (I tried other domains – .org, .com – but all pointed to the same page, which was obviously discussing sleep disorders.) ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/45 "2002-08-03T19:37:35Z")
**BE CAREFUL!** Notice that this thead is over a year old. Some of the links are dodgy. I’m emailing the mods to disable the bad ones. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/46 "2002-08-03T19:51:40Z")
Ah, I didn’t see the date. Still porn now, though. I assumed it was a mistake, I know Podkayne is in good standing and all. Sorry if I sounded accusatory… I just wanted to get the post off ASAP. No harm, no foul. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/47 "2002-08-03T19:57:10Z")
Apologies to anyone who clicked on the [sleepscore.com](http://sleepscore.com) link above. It’s a year old, and it looks like somebody else has bought the domain name. The site I originally linked to has moved to sleepscore. **org** and they’ve improved their site considerably–though I still think it looks pretty tacky. 🙂 I’ve emailed the mods to disable the porn link. I hope that it doesn’t cause anyone any trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/48 "2002-08-04T10:49:32Z")
heh…funny how i should pop onto this thread only for it to mention sleep disorders…i have my own sleep disorders website…based on a newsgroup i frequent… but i won’t give the addy out cuase it’s a very boring site! ---
**Author:** ![jmpride62](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@jmpride62](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jmpride62)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/49 "2002-08-04T10:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by minlokwat \* > \*\*Sorry guys, but this one still takes the cake. > > Someone posted it earlier on the SDMB and it is a classic. > > [http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/](http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/) > > Enjoy! \*\* Dear God!! And, he’s 48! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/50 "2002-08-04T11:24:13Z")
haha…i’m in trouble now! i just re-visited the scribex site tracker and it seems that some of you have been checking out their site…so now when the “creators” of this site check their traffic, they’ll come here and read what we’ve been sayin about em… ooops 😃 let me just ask tho in all honesty…do any of you find anyting redeemnig about their web design skills? ---
**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/51 "2002-08-04T11:29:19Z")
drat…can’t edit our own posts on this board? excuse the above typos 😃 my typos are legendary! ---
**Author:** ![Caught\_Work](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Caught\_Work](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caught_Work)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/52 "2002-08-04T11:53:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tal \* > \*\*\<\\> > let me just ask tho in all honesty…do any of you find anyting redeeming about their web design skills? \*\* Nope. Not a sausage. Bugger all. Zip. Nada. None. Nil. Zero. Less than 1. They have a page counter. It’s all in pink. The graphics are rather crappy. I have no idea what the plethora of \\ are for. They are a “secretarial and promotions service”, that’s for sure. The shiela on the right looks like something a pimp would promote. Maybe I’m getting out of hand here, but there is a not a redeeming feature I can spot. My SO just walked in and said quote: That’s really bad. It looks like a porn site. It also appears that Indian Dreams found a better designer, as their linky linky no worky. The funky colours at J O’B indicate that they are also colour blind. TCC are so cheap they don’t even host their own site, so no wonder they went to these guys. Do you think they made their own graphics with, ooh, say, MS-Paint? OK, I’m out of criticisms. I really don’t want to post this, but really if you are offering your talents for sale, then you should have some talent to sell. Flames will be ignored.😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@Tal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tal)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/53 "2002-08-22T08:24:39Z")
hmmm…i wonder if scribex have been here…i just got this message from them about the webiste i referred to earlier in this thread \*We are perhaps a little old-fashioned but we feel that poaching someone else’s customer is a somewhat distasteful practice - and we gather that the approach was made by you people, and not by the client. We are further less than happy with the fact that the site we had prepared bore our copyright notice which appears to have been totally ignored, and I might add that the photos on the site (which you have continued to use) were in fact taken by us, and did not belong to the client. We may take advice on our position.\* ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2002, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/54 "2002-08-22T16:33:02Z")
Um… if the website was paid for by the customer, anything on it then becomes property of the client. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2002, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149/55 "2002-09-01T06:18:30Z")
They’re such freaks, Tal! I feel like telling them that, as a customer of the Traralgon Book Exchange, I was horrifed by their tacky and unprofessional webpage, and begged you to make a better one for them. Scribex should be ashamed of themselves, their pages are disgraceful. Their email to you also shows they’re stupid - how can it be poaching when you sell someone another something? It’s not like Scribex were updating their site and continuously earning money from them. The Traralgon Book Exchange should sue Scribex for that travesty of a “webpage”. Repeat after me: I will adjust my screen color settings to high resolution, I will cease using Publisher as a webpage tool, I will stop using ugly flashing animated graphics that have nothing to do with the topic at hand, I will learn a thing or two about making webpages pleasing to the eye before I start calling myself a web designer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-tacky-web-pages/89149.md?page=2)