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#1 January 17 2010

Ayman
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Web Design Crimes!

Hey, I thought of creating this thread were each member who has seen a really bad web design and would like to share can share it here, maybe samer you can make this thread sticky if you don't mind :)

Lets start with this, the official website of the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education, it really looks bad and it reminds me of the days of Windows 95 especially the colors. Here it is: http://www.higher-edu.gov.lb/english/ What do you think? Do you have any other bad looking websites you would like to share? :)

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#2 January 17 2010

arithma
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Re: Web Design Crimes!

I checked the higher edu, it actually contains good content. Perhaps the couple or three fonts on the front page should be changed, but that's it. -On second view, the content needs to be sanitized.

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#3 January 17 2010

Ayman
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Re: Web Design Crimes!

I checked the higher edu, it actually contains good content. Perhaps the couple or three fonts on the front page should be changed, but that's it. -On second view, the content needs to be sanitized.

But what about the colors and the table layout? We are in the 21st century and we have CSS3 and some websites still depend on table layouts :S

Last edited by Ayman (January 17 2010)

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#4 January 17 2010

J4D
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in that job im sure they did not need a graphic designer "tewfeer"

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#5 January 27 2010

richy
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Most of the Lebanese ministries related websites suck big time.

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#6 March 2 2010

Kassem
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lol I have to agree... you really need to check out my faculty's website, it is definitely a web design crime! here's the link: http://www.gestion1.ul.edu.lb
But to give Dr. Ali Saleh some credit, he is NOT a web designer, he's a network engineer in the first place and the website does the job very well. There's some serious database work powering up this website, and at least that's the first faculty in the Lebanese university that allows students to register online (THANKFULLY!)

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#7 March 3 2010

nuclearcat
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It is a crime - that website is running on Microsoft Windows :-)

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#8 March 3 2010

Kassem
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If you're referring to the site I posted you are absolutely right! It is running on MS Windows Server 2003 inside the university's premises. You should check it out while we're registering our courses, simply PATHETIC!

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#9 October 25 2010

MegaCool
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Re: Web Design Crimes!

I dont know how the hell I stumble by this website, wish I didn't

http://www.egypt4000.com/

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#10 October 25 2010

mk555
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MegaCool wrote:

I dont know how the hell I stumble by this website, wish I didn't

http://www.egypt4000.com/

Egyptians make crazy things

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#11 October 25 2010

Bassem
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Re: Web Design Crimes!

AymanFarhat wrote:

[...] official website of the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education
http://www.higher-edu.gov.lb/english/

Here's something I found on that website:

deprived.png

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a hilarious mistake?
PS. It says "Deprived of Science and Technology"

Last edited by Bassem (October 25 2010)

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#12 October 26 2010

Georges
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Bassem. Your FF looks Weird !
Which addons are you using ?
What about that blank tab and the search box

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#13 October 26 2010

MrClass
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Re: Web Design Crimes!

AymanFarhat wrote:

Hey, I thought of creating this thread were each member who has seen a really bad web design and would like to share can share it here, maybe samer you can make this thread sticky if you don't mind :)

Lets start with this, the official website of the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education, it really looks bad and it reminds me of the days of Windows 95 especially the colors. Here it is: http://www.higher-edu.gov.lb/english/ What do you think? Do you have any other bad looking websites you would like to share? :)

Lol man, html frames? site in html? dont tell me they manually edit the web content on frontpage

Mega epic fail

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#14 October 26 2010

MrClass
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MegaCool wrote:

I dont know how the hell I stumble by this website, wish I didn't

http://www.egypt4000.com/

max lol!

had to scroll like hell on my ipad. EVER HEARD OF CSS! l3ama

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#15 October 26 2010

Bassem
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Georges Raad wrote:

Bassem. Your FF looks Weird !
Which addons are you using ?
What about that blank tab and the search box

Well, I can't let you see what I'm searching!  that's private info.

As for addons, click here for what I use in the screenshot, so we don't hijack the thread.

Here is the addon list for my desktops.

Last edited by Bassem (October 26 2010)

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#16 May 1 2012

Ayman
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Here is one I just found today! http://www.cib.gov.lb/

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#17 May 1 2012

geek
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@AymanFarhat: the "English Version" link is hilarious! reminds me of downloadwww.gif

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#18 May 1 2012

MrClass
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lol @ the "English Version". Page probably done on MS Word or something

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#19 May 1 2012

rolf
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Bassem wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a hilarious mistake?
PS. It says "Deprived of Science and Technology"

You're sure it's a mistake?

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#20 May 4 2012

Brashen
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Most Lebanese sites are committing design sin. I attribute it mostly to clients....Clients are bad enough when thay start asking for bull crap to be stuck on their website and when they're allowed to edit their own back content. That goes doubly so for Lebanese clients. They think they're God's gift to the design world and that everyone will want to see their Frankenstein creations.

But let's not put all the blame on the clients, there are a lot of bad 'designers' out there. I'd say probably 70% of the people out there, think they can do design because they have a pirated copy of Photoshop on their PC. A further 20% think they're designers because they own Apple products. That leaves us with a paltry 10% who know what they're doing, innovate when they design and genuinely like what they do.

But then comes along that twit of a client who demands shit like; "Oh can I have zee meenu buttens 3am byit7arako plzzz, l2ano we are a car dealership and anno siyaratna byit7arako"

This is all true...

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#21 May 11 2012

Ayman
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#22 May 11 2012

m0ei
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"ليك شو حلو"

It's even uglier than this site http://thebiguglywebsite.com/

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#23 May 11 2012

MrClass
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Guys how do you find these stuff?

Last edited by MrClass (May 11 2012)

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#24 May 12 2012

Abbabbj
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Bassem wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a hilarious mistake?
PS. It says "Deprived of Science and Technology"

I use OCR often "Optical Character Recognition" to convert hard copies to soft copies this is one of its common mistakes the word is "Department of ..." however it was taken as a wrong word example:"Depirvnment" and the spelling checker found that the word deprived fits better

check our universities website:
ulfds1.ul.edu.lb
the problem is that it won't open if you write www. in the url
can anyone tell me why?!

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#25 May 12 2012

MrClass
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Abbabbj wrote:

Bassem wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a hilarious mistake?
PS. It says "Deprived of Science and Technology"

I use OCR often "Optical Character Recognition" to convert hard copies to soft copies this is one of its common mistakes the word is "Department of ..." however it was taken as a wrong word example:"Depirvnment" and the spelling checker found that the word deprived fits better

check our universities website:
ulfds1.ul.edu.lb
the problem is that it won't open if you write www. in the url
can anyone tell me why?!

Simply because the domain name is ul.edu.lb and a DNS A record with the name "ulfds1" is pointing to the web server. No "www" DNS A record exists and is not pointing to anything.

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