My East Ky

Wow where to start on this? I found the “malls” one day surfing around I think there was a advertising link on Appalachian news express. Anyway I am completely dumb founded that businesses would advertise on these web sites. I’ll be the first to admit I’m no web designer but come on these web sites are completely horrid! Things that erk me in no particular order

• That damn talking voice that you can’t turn off!
• The graphics look awful…I know he might be trying to save loading times by reducing the quality of them but man you got to have a trade off…plus ever heard of Photoshop? I thought I was going to have a seizure when I click on Respiratory Health
• The sites do not seem to be cross platform compatible i.e.: Firefox…not everyone uses internet explorer
• SEO & Alt tags, the sites have absolutely none, good luck being picked by search engines
• Not sure what it was designed in? Maybe FrontPage lol might want to try Dreamweaver.
• Disabled right click..Why? No real use . (edit view source or just save the web page)
• It’s 2008 looks like it was cutting edge in 1998.

There’s a lot more but that’s all I feel like typing right now. I will give the kudos to the owner though it’s a great idea with very very poor execution. Plus they are actually advertisers on his site so they/he must have a good sales pitch. Just think how many advertisers he would have if he had a decent looking website. My advice (which is worth a penny) is to take those advertising dollars your getting and hire a real programmer and designer to do the job right, because all your doing is probably discouraging your advertiser from ever really getting on the web the way they should be. Might want to check out Freelance Designers or Get a Freelancer.

Oh and if you never seen the “malls” before here you go The Malls