The Final List of the Worst Web Sites Of 2008

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It's been a few years since I was involved in web technology but back then Jakob Nielsen was the big cheese as far as usability goes ( http://www.useit.com/ ) and I'm pretty sure his website is still a good resource.

Main things that come to mind with regards to havenworks are

Navigation - Images are very small and it's hard to work out what some of them are. There's no text to tell you what each one does. (You can hover over them and find out but that only works in Internet Explorer and a large proportion of people don't use it any more.)

Colours - OK red is the appropriate colour for Republican news but putting blue text over it is a problem as certain colour combinations are difficult to read or cause the eyes to strain when viewing them. Some words are a few different colours :uuh:

Layout - Seems like they've tried to bring the newspaper style layout to the web and it just hasn't worked. Print media is designed this way because it is much easier to read relatively short lines (I think the optimum is roughly 12 words per line if my memory serves me correctly). Having column widths that change with the users screen resolution is usually a good thing but Havenworks has columns which are too narrow even at high resolutions like 1680x1050+ and just plain silly in lower ones like 1024x768 (2-4 words per line).
On the other end of the scale we have columns which span the whole width of the screen (at the bottom of the page).
 
-Kai- said:
I guess it would be the same impression I get when I read one of Izyan's post.

mixed with
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very expressive impression indeed :)

Rida said:
First impression :uuh::uuh::uuh:

second. ^o) The person who made it is mad.
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I wonder if that person is still alive ^o)


Azy said:
It's been a few years since I was involved in web technology but back then Jakob Nielsen was the big cheese as far as usability goes ( http://www.useit.com/ ) and I'm pretty sure his website is still a good resource.
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Nilson is still the best in web design usability, he studied all details even the tiny one...I found his material very beneficial indeed. thanks for the link though

Main things that come to mind with regards to havenworks are

Navigation - Images are very small and it's hard to work out what some of them are. There's no text to tell you what each one does. (You can hover over them and find out but that only works in Internet Explorer and a large proportion of people don't use it any more.)
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I tried to go through the site to get anything, but it was a real nightmare

Colours - OK red is the appropriate colour for Republican news but putting blue text over it is a problem as certain colour combinations are difficult to read or cause the eyes to strain when viewing them. Some words are a few different colours :uuh:
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if you notice the buttons at the top of the homepage, I dont know why on earth they make each button with different color :uuh:
and I was suffering from eyes hurt yesterday when I was studying that site...seriously

Layout - Seems like they've tried to bring the newspaper style layout to the web and it just hasn't worked. Print media is designed this way because it is much easier to read relatively short lines (I think the optimum is roughly 12 words per line if my memory serves me correctly). Having column widths that change with the users screen resolution is usually a good thing but Havenworks has columns which are too narrow even at high resolutions like 1680x1050+ and just plain silly in lower ones like 1024x768 (2-4 words per line).
On the other end of the scale we have columns which span the whole width of the screen (at the bottom of the page).
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its awful, there is no enough space between the texts and the borders of the columns....if you noticed the page is very wide at the top but not in the bottom, some columns are just empty there while you are going down on the homepage


thanks Azy for ur points there.....may I use some of them in my homework?
 
Azy said:
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thanks...then I think since you have been working on the field, I might need your help in the few coming months if you don't mind...I am working on a project talking about the same topic
 
bump...........

plz brothers and sisters......for those who read the thread but did'nt leave a comment.....I need more feedback from more people about ur first impression when you saw that site for the project now
 
its filled wid loads of stuff n all tht blue is hurting my eyes lolz weird website
 
the webmaster has put hell in a nutshell...may be they were trying to display an example of ''saving electronic paper"....i wonder who would like to visit such a website!
 
I thought it looked a little busy, sort of like our fridge with the achievements of my nieces and nephews...:hmm:
 
The first word that jumped in my head when I saw the page was: HEADACHE.

So I guess that's my first impression.

Second impression...I thought it looked a little like a newspaper. A horrible, disorganized newspaper.

:D Hope that helped sis! G'luck|!
 
jazakum allah khair everyone for your help............rep for everyone replied and help :D

who more wants to have a rep? lol I still need some more :)
 
Ya Allah..... what kind of website is that... yeah... my eyes hurt...:shade:

I think that it the messiest website ever... and this is the first and last time to see that website... (dont expect me to read those articles or news or whatever) ... plus, yeah.. to many tiny heads... hate those too... too many colours too... messy .. messy .. messy ..
 
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Oh, my dear God. SubhanAllah, what an atrocity. I can't believe the name that site has: havenworks?! The word haven means (according to the Meriam Webster Dictionary): a place of safety; a place offering favorable opportunities or conditions. But, this website is not a place a safety! This makes Huffington Post look like a dream, and I really thought HuffPo was the worst of the worst!

There is no organization, no space between anything and this makes a person (well, me anyway!) claustrophobic. There is no use of color. Images are tossed up and it looks like they serve no real purpose. It's a real shame that the site is so unusable that I don't even know what they are about. Honestly, if I clicked on it expecting something, I'd be annoyed and thinking that it's some kind of spam site.

I wonder if it was designed to be the worst website ever; I say this because the page title has a winky thing in there, like this ;-) . What's up with that? Is the guy who put it together thinking it's funny to horrify our eyes like this? Weird. I've never seen a smiley in the title of page...especially one that's supposed to deliver real information.

SubhanAllah. I need chocolate to soothe my soul after witnessing that train wreck!

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its actually not that bad,there is alot of information which could keep you entertained for a long duration,the lay out is mediocre and all it needs is de-cluttering,and just updating in terms of looks and design thats all..........all this about my eyes ''hurt'' is just alil exaggeration

thats my input :)
 
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I thought my computer was messed with the graphic card but then AHHHHHHH. No offence to the creator. And we shouldn't critize a website poorly made because at the times of Prophet Muhammad(PBUH) there was barely anything to write with or write on and guess how the Quran was firsly formed probably very bad condition if we saw it but do we critize it? No so don't do that if you don't want to get critized yourself.
 

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