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Mercia Tourist Board – Example of Bad Web Design for February 23, 2012

February 22nd, 2012 10:10 pm by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: It is meant to be a site about history but has all that unnecessary, jarring gumpf.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I had never run across the word “gumpf” before. Love it. “Random junk.” I think it’s a subset of Over-the-top Web Design. There are OTT websites that have a consistent theme and then there are Gumpf OTT—or GOTT websites—as in “Mein GOTT.”

There’s way too much crammed on one ugly page. I’m not sure they’ve licensed the likenesses of Clint Eastwood are Arnold Schwarzenegger and it’s just plan horrible looking, which is a shame because I really liked the Anglo-Saxon English class I took and to have these representatives screw it up is a bit sad.

Oh, the site is mildly NSFW (I think). Depends on how politically correct your company is and how much bathing suits offend. On the other hand, there might be worse pictures. Dunno because I have no reason to stay on the site.

Mercia Tourist Board

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Hannafate · 683 weeks ago

Using a picture of Fawlty Towers for the "hotels" link is idiotic. Who would want to go there?

And, I can not see the connection between the subject of the site and American action actors.

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Kit 80p · 683 weeks ago

This site is just plain tasteless, and very poorly done at that. An unattractive color palette, numerous poorly "PhotoShopped" images, a disorganized page that goes on forever - you name it. The only positive points are that they didn't seem to bother to use some crappy Flash animations.

I don't give a tinker's cuss how many visitors your site may have had (porn sites get a lot of visitors too, but that doesn't make them any less disgusting). This is one awful website.

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