Just plain awful website

campkev

http://yvettesbridalformal.com/index.htm

Jayman

That has to be a joke. Please, tell me it's a joke. My faith in humanity would slip even closer towards negative infinity if I found out that someone out there thinks that is a good design...

snoofle

That was actually painful to look at, and I don't just mean from the perspective of a developer...

PJH

It changed back in November '06:

Yvette's

We've had something like this before, and it was a 'genuine' site, in that you could place legitimate orders on it. Apparently.

DOA

Great, now it's burned into my corneas

bstorer

Good news: it appears to be down now. Bad news: you won't get to learn about the genius behind this wonderful site design. For some reason, he is not wearing a shirt in his photo.

valerion

Christ you could've included a health warning or something with that link!

timbo

Anyone else tempted by the MSPaint Pix,
click here ~* link?

blakeyrat

The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.

morbiuswilters

@blakeyrat said:

The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.

Link? There's no way in hell I'm searching through that crappile for it.

RogerWilco

Seems to be genuine. At least one of the pages has this background, which seems to be what their shop looks like:

yay - crap

Seems to be even the same "style" especially if the bit of gold coloured stuff at the top right is a huge "Yvette's" logo.

Dejà Vu ?

astonerbum

@PJH said:

It changed back in November '06:

Yvette's

Yvette's

We've had something like this before, and it was a 'genuine' site, in that you could place legitimate orders on it. Apparently.

could someone have just defaced it and it was never looked at???

bstorer

@morbiuswilters said:

Link? There's no way in hell I'm searching through that crappile for it.

Why would you pass up the opportunity to find this masterpiece for yourself?

The_Quiet_One

Where to start? The random color choices? The bizarre floating... object that just circles around my monitor no matter where I turn? The god-awful MSPaint image near the bottom with the random Asian characters that don't even seem to be consistant with a single language?

But, let's forget that and look at the good things about this site... for example, Yvette's has RED HATS!!! The music is soothing, and it has a possibly edible chocolate cake recipe.

blakeyrat

@bstorer said:

@morbiuswilters said:

Link? There's no way in hell I'm searching through that crappile for it.
Why would you pass up the opportunity to find this masterpiece for yourself?

Thanks, I would have posted the link but I was on an iPhone at the time.

PJH

@astonerbum said:

@PJH said:
It changed back in November '06:

Yvette's

Yvette's

We've had something like this before, and it was a 'genuine' site, in that you could place legitimate orders on it. Apparently.

could someone have just defaced it and it was never looked at???

No. Unless the person defacing it has been continually changing the defacement.

That's not to say it actually is a real business, just that someone is still 'maintaining' the site. There are some 2010 links there, for example.

badcaseofspace

You can still see it's a cat, right? 1-0 for the ~~contemporary~~ EGA graphics artist. And to top it off, he got world famous today.

Maybe he just needs some helpful directions on acquiring a 24-bit display output thingie.

emurphy

@bstorer said:

Good news: it appears to be down now. Bad news: you won't get to learn about the genius behind this wonderful site design. For some reason, he is not wearing a shirt in his photo.

Do they actually say that he designed the web site (as opposed to just some of the paintings)? Though he certainly might be both, or else they're both heavy smokers ifyouknowwhatimean...

havokk

Wow, that site made it into Vincent Flanders' "Worst Web Pages In The World" list (http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/the-worst-web-page-in-the-world/).

Watson1

I think my eyeballs just melted. They didn't even do that the first time I saw goatse.

This is Eighth Circle of Hell material. Really: one of the punishments will be having to use an entire web that looks like this.

The_Quiet_One

@Watson said:

They didn't even do that the first time I saw goatse.

There was a second time?

bstorer

@emurphy said:

@bstorer said:
Good news: it appears to be down now. Bad news: you won't get to learn about the genius behind this wonderful site design. For some reason, he is not wearing a shirt in his photo.

Do they actually say that he designed the web site (as opposed to just some of the paintings)? Though he certainly might be both, or else they're both heavy smokers ifyouknowwhatimean...

According to my first link:

Author and Fashioner of Yvette's Site ~*

RTapeLoadingError

@bstorer said:

Author and Fashioner of Yvette's Site ~*

Out of interest, anyone know what the ~* punctuation mark means?

b_redeker1

@RTapeLoadingError said:

Out of interest, anyone know what the ~* punctuation mark means?

This represents a burning fuse, the message being: get the hell out before all this blows up.

Or possibly this is an eyeball melting.

RTapeLoadingError

@b_redeker said:

@RTapeLoadingError said:

Out of interest, anyone know what the ~* punctuation mark means?

This represents a burning fuse, the message being: get the hell out before all this blows up.

Or possibly this is an eyeball melting.

You could be onto something there - it does look a bit like an eyeball popping out complete with optic nerve

sh_code

and it's getting even "better"

i found a direct link from that monstrisity to this... subpage? other page?

hell, who knows

http://yvettesbridalformal.com/FineArtPanamaCity19.html

anyone has an idea why this guy's taking pictures of his refridgerator?

CivilD

I've seen this before. The story went that someone designed them a 'proper' website that you can still see on the wayback machine, but after they refused to pay for it he decided to give them a website they deserved (which initially just a couple of pages). After the link started getting tossed around the designer has been having fun with it, taking the joke further by adding even more gonzo pages to it. So there you have it.

ammoQ

This might be some kind of viral marketing, since it is so extremely bad that it looks like they did it on purpose, so people like us spread the url.

galgorah

@RHuckster said:

...The god-awful MSPaint image near the bottom with the random Asian characters that don't even seem to be consistant with a single language?

My coworker who is from Hong Kong says the middle one is chinese and translates to "I like china".

amischiefr

@blakeyrat said:

The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.

A fox you say? Ahh so Indora wrote this site. That explains quite a bit. Furry's like bright flashing lights.

crippledsmurf

In one section of the page background you can see an old HP running what appears to be 9x at and insanly crap res. On that desktop i believe is an icon for Prodigy or CompuServe, I can't say exactly which but I do remeber it was an icon for a provider that was in the Online Services folder that shipped with windows 98 and the providers were The Microsoft Network, AT&T WorldNet CompuServe and Prodigy

blakeyrat

@amischiefr said:

@blakeyrat said:
The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.

A fox you say? Ahh so Indora wrote this site. That explains quite a bit. Furry's like bright flashing lights.

There's no way Indora is cool enough to score a blunt.

Watson1

@RHuckster said:

@Watson said:
They didn't even do that the first time I saw goatse.

There was a second time?

Yup. I think the guy who sprang it on me was a bit disappointed with my lack of reaction.

Watson1

@CivilD said:

I've seen this before. The story went that someone designed them a 'proper' website that you can still see on the wayback machine, but after they refused to pay for it he decided to give them a website they deserved (which initially just a couple of pages). After the link started getting tossed around the designer has been having fun with it, taking the joke further by adding even more gonzo pages to it. So there you have it.

So it is a punishment. I knew it!

bob171123

@blakeyrat said:

@amischiefr said:
@blakeyrat said:
The fox smoking the blunt is epic. The filename suggests it's supposed to be a cat (gato), but I'm sticking with fox.

A fox you say? Ahh so Indora wrote this site. That explains quite a bit. Furry's like bright flashing lights.

There's no way Indora is cool enough to score a blunt.

It was just one of his furry comics he rolled and lit up. Funny thing about Indora is, that gets him more high than Harold and Kumar could every hope to get.

merely_a_lowly_inter

@RHuckster said:

Where to start? The random color choices? The bizarre floating... object that just circles around my monitor no matter where I turn? The god-awful MSPaint image near the bottom with the random Asian characters that don't even seem to be consistant with a single language?

That's where noscript is nice :).

Hell, a site designed like that I wouldn't let through even if they were legitimately gonna give me money. Just out of contempt.

monkeypants

@SEMI-HYBRID code said:

and it's getting even "better"
i found a direct link from that monstrisity to this... subpage? other page?
hell, who knows
http://yvettesbridalformal.com/FineArtPanamaCity19.html

anyone has an idea why this guy's taking pictures of his refridgerator?

I literally had to lay my head on my desk and laugh for several minutes, tears streaming. I'm not sure which is more amusing, the music or the dancing stick-men.

The_Quiet_One

According to the text, he seriously thinks he's some kind of Andy Warhol-like genius for shooting photos of Grape Jelly, refrigerators, Italian seasoning, and making happy stickmen dance to music.

RTapeLoadingError

gen-ius [jeen-yuh s]

1. an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc

Creative? Well the website didn't create itself...

Original? I don't think there's any doubt that this is original stuff.

And as a bonus it encompasses art, music and (computer) science

SlyEcho

@galgorah said:

@RHuckster said:
...The god-awful MSPaint image near the bottom with the random Asian characters that don't even seem to be consistant with a single language?

My coworker who is from Hong Kong says the middle one is chinese and translates to "I like china".

It says "We love South Korea" in Korean, "We love China" in traditional Chinese and "We love Japan" in Japanese.

It surprises me I could understand all three.

alegr

@RTapeLoadingError said:

@bstorer said:
Author and Fashioner of Yvette's Site ~*

Out of interest, anyone know what the ~* punctuation mark means?

It's a chocolate eye. With a chocolate log falling.

SteamBoat

One stick butter

http://www.yvettesbridalformal.com/PeachCobbler1.html

I'm glad they have thier prorities down.

MArk B.

HTMLCoder_exe

Couldn't resist the temptation.

http://tinyurl.com/worlds-ugliest-site

blakeyrat

@HTMLCoder.exe said:

Couldn't resist the temptation.
http://tinyurl.com/worlds-ugliest-site

The temptation to... link to it?

WTF.

derula

@blakeyrat said:

@HTMLCoder.exe said:
Couldn't resist the temptation.

http://tinyurl.com/worlds-ugliest-site
The temptation to... link to it?

WTF.

Good going HTMLCoderExeSwamp. You know much very much about sharing. Relink is

an essential power only Swampies know about. Way to go BlackeyRatSwamp! Maybe

you should download source.txt and start to jam it.

The_Quiet_One

@derula said:

Maybe you should download source.txt and start to jam it.

This prompted me to actually check the HTML source... it's apparently generated by Yahoo Site Builder and uses a strange combination of div, table, spans, and font tags. It's truly a WTF to the highest degree.

I never thought I'd ever see a font tag nested in a span tag, nested in a one-cell table, nested in a div. Although I think that approach is more of a WTF on Yahoo's part, rather than Yvette's part, besides the fact that Yvette decided to go with Yahoo Site Builder to create this monstrocity.

derula

@RHuckster said:

I never thought I'd ever see a font tag nested in a span tag, nested in a one-cell table, nested in a div.

Hey, at least it's better than a div nested in a one-cell table, nested in a span tag, nested in a font tag.

Nyquist

@derula said:

Good going HTMLCoderExeSwamp. You know much very much about sharing. Relink is
an essential power only Swampies know about. Way to go BlackeyRatSwamp! Maybe
you should download source.txt and start to jam it.

Somebody call an exorcist.

Cad_Delworth

@RTapeLoadingError said:

Out of interest, anyone know what the ~* punctuation mark means?

I think it has to mean 'approximately a star.'

Incidentally, I do especially love the media player stuck at random places on EACH PAGE of the site this clown 'developed' for Yvette.

And I'm stunned that few have yet mentioned the portraits of brides which this guy has produced for Yvette's presumably unsuspecting customers.

But then again: has anyone looked at the GOWNS Yvette sells? Especially those for the, er, 'fuller figure.' Maybe the site design isn't so out of tune with the 'classiness' of Yvette's business, after all? You can see its tasteful and charming frontage on this page: [url]http://yvettesbridalformal.com/BdaySean1.html[/url]
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