Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Corporate: website information

I’m putting together some content for my company website, I want it to be a good site rather than a bad one. If you’re looking at a website about a company what kind of information do you want to be available? What annoys you about websites? Can anyone give me examples of good sites or bad ones? (please label which is which, my non-artistic eyes might not be able to tell).


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  1. stompyboots

    My biggest pet peeve is companies who hide their contact details so cunningly that you can’t even find them with the sitemap.

    Otherwise, I want easy navigation, some sort of logic/structure to the contents (of the site, not a Table of Contents), and, unless they really are relevant, not many pictures or images. Nothing to do with browse speed (I’ve got 2MB), but just because quite often it can make it look like you got overeager with Clipart.

    Oh, and no guestbooks. I really hate guestbooks, for no reason whatsoever.

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    • neilh

      A well designed site doesn’t need a sitemap, thats something that irritates me, finding a site that should have easy to find information, spending ages reading through a poorly thought out sitemap to discover that actually they don’t have a link to the info you’re after.

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    • neilh

      Agreed they’re generally a sign of bad site design – I’m very much into the idea of deep-linking, too, so one of the criteria is that it be possible to link directly to any of the pages without any weirdness.

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  4. neilh

    Yeah, its gonna be straightfoward, no fluffing about, there aren’t really products at the moment (though there will hopefully be some later), but the whole thing will be built from logically structured information. I’ll post a link to it once its done so you can all tell me whats wrong with it.

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  5. dmh

    A good sign of website quality is a bit at the bottom saying “Best viewed in Internet Explorer 6.0.2900 at 2048x1536px resolution.” Horizontal scroll bars are a great sign of quality too, along with making all links say <a href="...">Click here</a>.

    </sarcasm> ;o)

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    • neilh

      That said I did find one site which had an intentional horizontal scroll bar (and no vertical scroll), it worked quite nicely, but mostly they’re just a sign that it was made by a muppet.

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