Giant FAIL
One would expect a giant like Facebook would be able to afford .. well.. at least something better than what they have. Let alone all the recent changes that are a complete nightmare from the point of view of usability, their advertising campaign setup is as horrifying as it can get. I know many people who setup a PPC campaign on Facebook & weren't able to find the campaign to make any changes to it. How lame is that?
The Most User UN-Friendly
New-Bee
Less gimmicks, easy to navigate, easy to read, easy to understand. Depression D is something a bit odd in between other psycho websites & blogs, it has humanly touch to it, unlike other websites that just have boring & scientific content. That said, the best part of it is the simplistic design which has not much if anything, yet has a great appealing look & easy to understand & navigate.
Simplicity = WIN
Google Shmoogle
Google has been one of the better search engines that delivered better results for the user. However, lately in its journey to fight those trying to gain the system Google went overboard trying new changes too often & too soon. As a result you see a bunch of low quality sites coming up in searches simply because they have matching domain name with or without dashes and billion dollar companies. Looks like the efforts to fight spam ended up in killing all the small website owners.
Google Shmoogle
The Cholesterol Website
Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of unreliable information out there. However, those that scare me are the ones with references to government & educational websites. It’s “pick and choose” game & you need to be careful to be aware of what the author likes to pick & choose. That said, you can find some great read as well, like The Truth About Soft Drinks
The Most Unreliable
eCommerce Fail
Prima Tea made the rookie mistake to redesign the website with a lot of fancy images & other fancy stuff that is hard to load. As a result it takes forever to load the website & at times pages won't load at all. For an eCommerce website that's an epic fail in my book. Fancy look doesn't always mean better for the user. Don't be surprised if your customers get pissed off because of the super slow loading times & start shopping elsewhere.
Prima Tea - Online Loose Leaf Tea Store
The Most Overloaded
Mood Killer
Dr Alexander Simring provides information opinion style on digestive health. What struck me was the design chosen for a medical website. It could be that I’m too old fashioned or not open enough for innovative style blogs for doctors, but it seems to me that more traditional pallet color is what you should pick when you are creating a medical website. The last thing I want when I have medical problems is having my mood sunk further by dark shady colors. Also having a logo instead of an empty placeholder would be great, thank you very much!
The Most Awkward Medical Website
Go Green Electricity!!
Do you remember those annoying promotions when a company advertises how you should buy from them because their product is cheaper than their competitors’? I generally find them lacking taste. However, Lekker Energie found a very smart way to use the same technique in a good manner. Lekker Energie offers an online calculator on their website (www.Lekker-Energie.de) which shows how much you can save by using them, now that’s pretty cool way to increase your conversion rate.
Smart Promotion
Sheer Disappointment
I generally get excited when I see some videos on a certain website, so I was when I saw them available on Richard Morrison’s Vancouver Real Estate website. Videos would seem to me as a great way for a person in real estate to pitch his service and I was eager to play them & learn a few things from someone who knows how to convert a lead in real estate market. All that excitement & all I found was disappointing 40 sec clips, 2nd half of which was some annoying text over a blank background. With that content you might be better off removing the videos altogether.
http://www.realestatevancouver2010.com/
Awkward Real Estate Videos?
Sitemap & SSL Fail
Belvini offers a nice selection of wines; they have a great online store that is easy to navigate. 2 Things that I found annoying is that while they have an SSL certificate their login area still has some unsecured content. Trust me, if you are running a legitimate online store you really don’t want your customers getting “unsecure content” warnings on their browsers when they are actually about to purchase from you. Another thing that I found funny was how their webmaster missed the point of having a sitemap. Having a sitemap is supposed to make it easier for your visitors to find a page on your website that they otherwise would have hard time finding through the regular navigation, however Belvini decided to just throw all their links on one page with no grouping or anything. That’s not what I call a good sitemap, I call it a sitemess. Take a look...
Auswahl an Weingueter von Belvini.de
Wine Shop SSL Glitch
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