Okay, so I thought that the Episcopal Church website was a pretty failure, an ornamentally clueless exercise in design-for-ineffectiveness. It’s a technologically tone-deaf organization, so although I’m always hopeful, I don’t expect much.
But who told the All-Music Guide that their redesign was a good idea? What person, with what eyes and what brain, flipped the switch from their former (clunky but functional) page layout to the present monstrosity? And who tipped them off that it would be a good idea to base the design on one browser? The least secure browser around? And to present a headline advising users that “You are accessing allmusic.com with a browser that is not currently supported. The appearance and functionality of the site could be impacted. allmusic.com is optimized for Internet Explorer 5.5 and above for Windows”?
Someone should make allmusic.com the target of a serious redesign makeover. And heavens to betsy, if a professional web design firm can get paid for that presentation (although maybe it was redesigned by somebody’s in-law), why are any excellent designers looking for work?
[Later:] It’s even worse than badly designed. The interface now requires (free) registration, but it keeps logging me out, requiring recurrent re-logging. Queries time out constantly. And the database still has numerous misspellings.
Posted by AKMA at July 13, 2004 04:23 PM | TrackBackNoted, and deleted! (Wonder how that happened. . . .)
Posted by: AKMA at July 14, 2004 08:43 AM