Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Jeff and Jim's Pizza

Jeff and Jim seem to make a darn good pizza, but not so much a darn good website.

Jeff and Jim made the classic mistake of throwing a website together using cheap website software thinking that was their only choice.

Awful background that I can only imagine is supposed to be fire, but looks more like the battered hood of a red '76 Dodge Dart after crashing through the annual rotary belt sander conference. Repetitive images as backgrounds are no good.

Oh, and I know you are proud of your awards, but they are ugly. Un-ugly them or get them off the page.

There is no salvaging this site. It's over. So long. Thanks for all the fish.

In the off chance that Jeff or Jim read this, I am going to be helpful here. I know you are a small business and, believe me, I know that small businesses don't have a whole lot of resources for creating a website, but this is inexcusable. Let's look at what the other student's have made.

Clean, contemporary, and wont make your customers afraid of your company being a front for a child abduction ring.

"Oh, Right! MY tiny little pizza joint can have a website like THAT! PSSSSHHH! Riiiight!" I can almost hear the owners say. Open up the cash drawer, and take out a hundred bucks. Pay 58 bucks for this template and spend the rest on an HTML book. Don't have time to learn HTML? Then pay the 17-year-old geek next door a hundred bucks to modify and upload it for you. It will take him a couple of hours and you will have a website you can be proud of. Hundred too steep for you? Then google some free templates. There's lots of them.

Generating original HTML should be done by three types of people ONLY:
1. Experienced web designers
2. Students
3. People making joke pages

If you don't fall into at least one of these categories, then you should stick to lapping up the leavings of actual website designers.

Sorry Jeff and Jim's Pizza Website... I hate you.

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