Get-a-Clue List

We put together a few funny hints & clues to poke fun at problematic web design. Do you suspect your web site may be a candidate for the get-a-clue list? Don’t worry! Contact us and we’ll help you design a new site or assist you with an existing site.

	The copyright line on your site says 2001. Psssst—yah know it’s 2009, right?
	You own 2 fancy luxury car dealerships, but the dealership sites look like Elmo put them together using free downloadable clip art. Niiiiice big buttons Elmo.
	You have a simple non-animated, non-Flash splash page that redirects to your home page and your business or organization truly cares about search engine rankings.
	Your site is black and has flames all over it, but you sell baby apparel (and you aren’t Harley Davidson).
	When you view the source code for your site, there aren’t ANY meta tags and all of the title tags throughout the entire site say “Main”.
	You have lots of blinking, flashing neon colored text everywhere on your site and your company does not make neon signs.
	On the home page of your site there’s a button called “Main” and a button called “Home”. Even worse, both buttons have the hover state set to off so your audience is doubly certain to get confused.
	The “on sale” products in your online store have the original price lower than your store’s discounted price. You entice buyers with a negative percent off. You can save -33%!…yes, we really saw that.
	75% of the searchable keyword phrases used on your product’s home page are enormous text graphics.
	The headers on your site have all been styled to be orange and underlined. Unfortunately, your site’s text links are also orange and underlined. Your viewers destination? L-O-S-T!