Worst Websites
Rick Jones Pianos – An Example of Bad Web Design for April 5, 2013
April 5th, 2013 1:01 am by Vincent Flanders
Submitter’s comments: Supposedly the largest piano retailer on the East Coast.
Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s comments like the above that confuse me. Why? The site sucks. Is the company successful because nobody sees their website, but the company has great word-of-mouth? Is the company successful because the website is so poorly designed, but it matches the expectations of their customers? Do they have great TV and other media campaigns? Would they be the biggest piano retailer in the world if they had a better looking website?
The tables, the borders, the centered text, the long home page, and images are resized in HTML or CSS (PageSpeed says that “Serving scaled images could save 3.1Mb [98% reduction] on the Testimonial Page).
It’s 1995-ugly.
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