Puzzle for developers

Apr 3, 2012 Begin the Rant    Bad website filed under: Duds, Pipe Bombs

A really bad puzzle shop page. This one is borderline not that bad, but it’s getting featured due to the fact that they are clearly trying really hard to do this and just failing. There are a whole series of these “serious” shops that all follow the same format and are janky. The site is plain as hell and ugly as a motherfucker. The navigation is flat and boring, there is a riot of information in all the wrong places, the eyes don’t know what to focus on and the palette is whack… But it’s also highly ranked by Google. They have a decent domain. They must be making money. I wonder how much more successful they could be with the right branding and marketing strategy…

I pose this as a serious question for developers: what if I came to you as the owner and asked what you thought of it? We all get that once in a while. “So you’re a designer. What do you think of my site? I didn’t want to pay someone and I figured I could do it myself.” What case would you make to offer a redesign? Or would you not pick up that project because you know how those people are?

http://www.seriouspuzzles.com/

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