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A Guide to Building Lame Websites

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A Guide to Building Lame Websites

Jun 29, 2004By Michael Stoner

It’s easy to make websites look good and function poorly. In fact, one reason why aren’t there more guides for building websites that truly suck is because building a bad website is so much easier than building a good one.

This article-“How to Build Lame Websites”is a terrific, tongue-in-cheek look at many ways in which you can optimize your website in order to make it even lamer than it is. Charlie Morris provides many different examples, from design to content, to help establish and reinforce the image of cluelessness that a site projects. One that he misses is how far a big Flash animationwithout a “skip animation” button-will go to convince visitors that the organization whose site they are visiting is truly clueless, but he cites many other prime examples.

Our thanks to our friends and colleagues in Web Communications at the University of Missouri-Columbia for sharing this one with us.


  • Michael Stoner Co-Founder and Co-Owner Was I born a skeptic or did I become one as I watched the hypestorm gather during the dotcom years, recede, and congeal once more as we come to terms with our online, social, mobile world? Whatever. I'm not much interested in cutting edge but what actually works for real people in the real world. Does that make me a bad person?