Posted by Logician on 02/02/07 16:28

On Jan 31, 5:17 pm, "Travis Newbury" <TravisNewb...@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 30, 6:34 am, "Andy Dingley" <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
>
> > On 29 Jan, 13:06, "Logician" <s...@logicians.com> wrote:
> > > A simple example of what I mean:www.9to5seating.com. This is a
> > > catalog based site using Flash.
> > That's one of the worst Flash-based sites I've seen in ages. I love
> > it, simply because it makes me reminiscent for a site I worked on in
> > 2000 which had a similarly horrible "Whack A Mole" menu system.
> > _Why_ does the publisher of this site think that making user
> > navigation deliberately difficult to use is a good idea?
>
> The publisher obviously doesn't think he is doing that. They think it
> is a cool site and the visitors love it. If they (the chair company)
> have seen an increase in revenue since creating the site (which I
> doubt because it does suck) then they are happy and will continue down
> the same path as long as it is making them money.
>
> Also, looking at the text animation, I would guess that this is a
> swish site.

Another example from my book:
http://www.fila.com/uk/eng - a catalogue based site but not one which
allows buying of goods.

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