Crawford House Collectibles – Choose Link Color Carefully

Overall, the site design is unpleasant to the eyes. The background is nice, and not too distracting, but is quickly overshadowed by the use of red and blue on top of it. This is a bad choice of color schemes. Look away from the site, and then look back, and see how long it takes your eyes to focus on the red print. Blue is…

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Crawford House Collectibles – Is It In Stock?

Ouch. Where do I start... 1. Home page - ugly. The "Control Panel" uses a "techie" style that is so out of keeping with the product line its almost funny (but it ain't!). Meanwhile the text is strictly html 101. The mottled background is both distracting and unappealing. A total disaster. No images. No specials. Nothing that would make me want to go another click…

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New Generation Web Design Annoyances

Web is a constantly changing medium, so does web design. Designers like to experiment from time to time. Some of the results may be attractive, but do they really add to the overall value of a design, or are they there just to decrease usability? I believe the latter is true for the following five design decisions.

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