And You’re a Marketing Firm?
September 26th, 2008 by FuzzTagged as: bad websites, marketing.
I just went to a marketing firm’s website and I was astonished by their terrible website:
- The title on every page is, “Untitled Document.”
- The horrendous flash open is 38 seconds long.
- The horrendous flash open has obnoxious music that you can’t turn off.
- The “skip intro” feature is impossible to see without scrolling down and rolling over a 25px wide graphic.
- The header image creates rollover text in the body field that disappears (blank body area) upon rollout.
- There is no phone number, address, email address, nada in the header/footer. You have to physically click on the “contact” link in order to get any info.
- The portfolio page features a static flash document for each and every piece of their portfolio.
- Each page in their portfolio is located in the root directory of the site. I’d hate to be their web guy (furthermore, I’d hate for them to be my web guy.)
- Their services page just has a bunch of bullet points.
- Their about us page has a bunch of text. (they should talk about more of what they can do for their client in the services page than what they do themselves in the about us page — in my humble opinion)
This company seems to have a lot of huge clients… which leads me to ask, “how big could they be if they did it right?”
September 26th, 2008 at 10:04 am
Probably not that big.
We do all that pretty much right, and we’re only six people. (Thought some of our clients are pretty big.)
September 26th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Perhaps “huge” was an overstatement. “Very-large Milwaukee-based companies” would be a better description.
They (who shall still remain nameless) obviously haven’t read Third-Person’s seven steps on SEO.