Regular readers are aware that I enjoy dabbling in web design and mess around with my template quite often. One thing I never do though is criticise or ridicule the aesthetics or design of anyone else's site, even if I'm sometimes tempted to - that wouldn't be fair. Until today.
I think I can do this with a clear conscience since the object of my ridicule isn't some poor individual blogger but the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I'm not referring to their main site which, while not particularly impressive is at least functional and reasonably professional looking. I'm talking about their 'Top Ten Most Wanted' page here.
It's absolutely awful. The page bears no relation to the main site at all with no FBI logo and few clues to what you're looking at. Then there's the ITV2-style logo which again doesn't reference the FBI seal and would shame a 1st year graphics student. The box below with the 10 fugitives in it is shaded a lovely lilac and the 10 photos are of varying quality and misaligned. And the whole thing clings to the left of the browser with a huge white space on the right - perhaps that's supposed to represent how much they know about the whereabouts of the ten.
My web design career remains more of an aspiration than a reality but since my only client so far was the reasonably high profile Iain Dale perhaps it's not that ridiculous for me to approach the FBI and offer my services...?
I think I can do this with a clear conscience since the object of my ridicule isn't some poor individual blogger but the Federal Bureau of Investigation. I'm not referring to their main site which, while not particularly impressive is at least functional and reasonably professional looking. I'm talking about their 'Top Ten Most Wanted' page here.
It's absolutely awful. The page bears no relation to the main site at all with no FBI logo and few clues to what you're looking at. Then there's the ITV2-style logo which again doesn't reference the FBI seal and would shame a 1st year graphics student. The box below with the 10 fugitives in it is shaded a lovely lilac and the 10 photos are of varying quality and misaligned. And the whole thing clings to the left of the browser with a huge white space on the right - perhaps that's supposed to represent how much they know about the whereabouts of the ten.
My web design career remains more of an aspiration than a reality but since my only client so far was the reasonably high profile Iain Dale perhaps it's not that ridiculous for me to approach the FBI and offer my services...?
2 Comments:
James Bulger has also been caught!
Doh!
Perhaps they arrested the guy who designed it for crimes against css/html or some such?!
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