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Sport Fishing With Dan Hernandez – Bad Web Design Example #1 for June 28, 2011

June 28th, 2011 12:12 am by Vincent Flanders

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Once again, “Where’s the focus?” Dan has so many ads and self-promotional things going on that it’s difficult to see where to go. It doesn’t help that the contrast sucks on the top horizontal navigation menu so you can’t read the links.

I love ads. My old man was in television broadcasting from 1948-1990, so advertising makes me happy. Hell, I even appeared naked on a full-size billboard to promote an ISP where I was employed. But there are limits to advertising and self-promotion. Basically, when your advertising gets in the way of your content, then you’ve gone too far. Dan’s gone too far. If you don’t want to visit the site, here’s a screen capture.

Sport Fishing With Dan Hernandez

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Kit 80p · 717 weeks ago

The site is a trifle...busy.

I remember when I was a kid, a certain sort of advert cropped up where folks used what I call the "irritation/annoyance factor." The idea seemed to be that the more irritating the advert, the more easily you would remember that business/product/service; greater sales would supposedly follow. The "busy-ness" of this site is certainly very annoying/irritating, but I won't be using Dan's services or buying any of his merchandise.

Give your site a bit of class, Dan; clean it up and organize it. You might be surprised at the results.

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Lambadafan Ed · 717 weeks ago

I'll probably remember his name for a day or so. Restrictions on presentable web page size has a way of eliminating windy and flowery writing. One should keep in mind that websites grow and it's better to introduce discipline to a website at it's start than to have to go back and refit every old page to a new format. There is no reason to have a google search box within the page. Locating the pagelinks at the top of the page has a way of wringing out oversize useless banners. Some day it may be useful to construct a book from the narrative on the website, real difficult to do from a 2 inch scroll in an I-Frame, The first consideration is the speed by which a visitor can view every page of the site. Placing the pagelinks identically at the top of every page makes that possible. Letter size paper is 855 pixels wide measured in Landscape mode, which allows for printing 4 pages of a book. The most common size flatscreen at the moment is 17", which allows 76 pixel wide thumbnails in the margins. His videos and ads could be combined into one page, my website page under this article will show how.

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