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Techniche 2012 – An Example of Bad Web Design For September 4, 2012

September 4th, 2012 4:04 am by Vincent Flanders

Submitter’s comments: Suggested sucky website.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I’ve never seen anything like the home page. Actually, it’s the strangest Splash Page I’ve ever seen. Scroll over the word “Techniche” and tell me you’ve seen this technique before today. The strangest part of this technique is that nothing is clickable. You have to click “Skip to the Main Website” to go to the content.

On the left side there’s a Mystery Meat Navigation menu and none of the symbols has, as far as I can tell, any relation to the topic. Oh. There’s more Mystery Meat at the top of the page.

The site is totally fouled up. By “totally fouled up” I mean…you know what I mean.

Techniche

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Kit 80p · 656 weeks ago

So what are the purpose and intent of this website? Shouldn't I be able to intuitively sense that rather than figure it out after clicking through multiple pages?

That positively cryptic landing page is cute but stupid. Taking a look at some of the sub-pages, I see too much well-written jargon.

The site is far too complicated. Make it simpler, please.

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hannafate · 656 weeks ago

It seems to be either a technical college, or an engineering festival. Either way, I'm not impressed.

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Kit 80p · 656 weeks ago

Interesting ideas; my money is on the engineering festival, although the terms "engineering" and "festival" seem strangely out of place next to each other.

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oneblankspace · 656 weeks ago

It looks like they forgot to close the quotes on an a href= because one of the links is &lt ;https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1221920923 target=>

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Pete · 655 weeks ago

It looks like they have created their own "niche" for idiots, the mouse over effect on the landing/splash page does not work in IE9, which is an amatuer mistake.

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