Funky Cat Studio

So I was sitting here thinking about web design. I have been working on websites and graphics for somewhere around 9 years. I’ve seen a lot of websites, and have been disgusted by most of them. I’m known for my strong opinions, so I figured I’d just toss my opinions out there for you to chew over. Having all this experience as a browse-aholic and- webmistress ought to help give you an idea of what is generally acceptable and what is not.

The DO NOT’S:

- Teeny tiny fonts are bad, even on your stupid little pixel graphics. If you don’t want us to be able to read these things, I suggest you don’t put any font there at all.

- While we’re on fonts: Font color is one of the most important things in web design. What I see on a lot of these cliquey, pretentious websites is, oh I dunno, a purple background with lavender font. Um NO. This is the first thing that usually makes me hit my back button. You should be using WHITE or BLACK font, depending on your background color. There’s other times you can get away with other colors, but generally speaking, you can’t. And I don’t care if that particular shade of purple matches the little hearts in your Brittany Spear’s header graphic.  Just NO!

- Pop up ads. Need I say more? Well I probably do… not only are these annoying as fuck, but some of them carry things like, oh I dunno, VIRUSES! And maybe even a TRACKING COOKING or 3. Apparently some people say they are making $50 + a day on pop ups.  Who in their right mind is going to be clicking around on “YOU’VE JUST WON A MILLION DOLLARS!” These are badbadbadbadbad!

- Hidden navigation. What the fuck is the point of someone going to your site and reading through it if you’ve got your navigation hidden? You know what I’m talking about. Do you know how long it took me to figure out that those 3 x 3 pixel, unlabeled squares were actually part of the navigation? I found that out by accident, people!

- TyPiNg LiKe A MoRoN. It makes you and your site look stupid and un-cool. I’m not an elitist, but I’m also not an easily amused, single minded 13 year old giggling girl that thinks its cool.

- Stolen/Unoriginal Content. A few weeks back from the date of writing this, I discovered glitters. Then I figured out what glitters were for. Yay, cool! How neat is that? I found a butt load of said glitters at a website and that was all fine and dandy. Then I got stuck in this loop of websites who also offered glitters. I ran across 5 or 6 sites that had the same- exact glitters. Who stole from who? Does the original creator of these glitters even know that they’ve just been ripped up the ass? The same goes for everything else. You’re all ripping off of everybody else. Stop it.

- Stolen/Unoriginal Layouts. Basically the same idea as the stolen/unoriginal content. One you start traveling that loop of cliquey Glittery/pixel sites, guess what? They all look THE SAME and they all have THE SAME kind of stuff. I know it’s hard to be original sometimes these days, but that doesn’t mean you should -try- to look like everybody else. God/Goddess/Whoever made us all different.. right? RIGHT?!

That’s all I have to say for now on this matter.