Look, Ma! I’m a Web Designer!
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- Stephanie Gets Tough on Spam…
- Stephanie Adams is Back…
- A Letter to Playboy Enterprises…
- Go Away, Stephanie Adams!
- The Ugly Saga Continues…
- Stephanie Threatens to Sue, Again…
- A Playmate Provides Evidence…
- Stephanie Adams, Lecturer…
- Stephanie Threatens my ISP…
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Just because you have a knife doesn’t make you a surgeon. Just because you have a wrench doesn’t make you an auto mechanic. And, just because you have a computer, Photoshop, a lot of time on your hands, and an Internet connection doesn’t make you a web designer.
Today, while trying to gather some ideas for projects at work, I came across one of the absolute worst “web design” companies I’ve ever seen, some racket called Goddessy. I’m hoping that by the time you read this, the link doesn’t work and the site is gone forever. [The web designs are gone although the site is still up, but there's no such thing as "gone forever" on the Internet as shown by this archive.]
For $2,000 for a small or new business, or for a mere $10,000 for a large company with “a vast number of pages”, this “web design specialist” will “provide innovative and brilliantly composed ideas that will enable your company or business to have a strong presence on the internet.” More likely, you will tear your hair out after having given any of your money to this bozo. You’d get a much better design if you asked your neighbor’s kid to do the work and gave the rest of the $2,000 to charity.
Now, I’m not saying that richard’s ramblings… is the best site in the world, nor is it an example of my best work. While I intentionally am not designing this for every browser, every computer, and have stated so, this isn’t a site representing a business nor will it ever be. However, a reasonable amount of thought and expertise has been incorporated into the design, usability and architecture of the site.
Can you imagine someone asking for a Egyptian-themed website, and ending up with something looking like the image to the left? This person “guarantees perfection”, and offers a “brilliantly created web site for your company.” To top it off, the vomitous websites were created using Microsoft FrontPage, an obvious sign that they needed massive help spewing the code they managed to publish. I also can’t resist pointing out the “Our success is your success” quote; isn’t it supposed to be the other way around?!
Don’t assume because someone has figured out how to make a button in Photoshop that they know anything about web design. The proverbial roomful of monkeys have probably produced better website designs than “Sorceress” — the webmistress of Goddessy.
It’s no wonder that the title of Web Designer is rarely viewed with respect given that there are hundreds of thousands of these would-be “professionals” out there.
*sigh*
Jesus H Christ!!! Her web design is a total sham! And here’s a correction. She’s not using Photoshop at all. In fact, if you look at the source of her pages, she’s using FrontPage for all her examples which, by the way, means that she’s using Image Composer. Actually, I noticed this almost immediately when I saw the layouts and button shapes which looked like basic FrontPage layouts. Looking at the page source just confirmed that.
Furthermore, if you look at the properties of the images, you’ll notice by their size that they aren’t even optimized! Aiyee!
Perfection? Bûllšhìt! Intelligent? Maybe, although most psychopaths have been known to be closet geniuses… However, I question the intelligence of any person who believes they can pass off completely amateurish rubbish as professional design. She should take a good look at what professional sites look like by going to CoolHomePages.com. As for the money she claims to make per year, I doubt that little if any is generated by her web design services. She’s just not good enough. Period.
Oh well… In any case, sorry I didn’t identify myself. I’m a friend of a friend of yours who told me about this, and just in case you wanted to forward this rant to her, I wanted to remain anonymous.
Out of curiosity (since you’ve removed the screen shots) I went back to Goddessy.com to see how bad it was. Interesting to note that she no longer has the blue on black (or blue) motif. I guess that’s an acknowledgement by her that it was a bad design.
Speaking of nudie models doing web design, Asia Carrera has a surprisingly good “buttkicking” site - funny, maintained by her and with some great geek shots. http://www.asiacarrera.com/ Not the best design, necessarily, but a much better example of a skin queen doing web development.
Yeah, I’ve seen Asia’s site before, and played Unreal with her skins! She truly has a passion for computing and the Internet.
I admit, originally..several years ago…I was one of those “pretending to be” a web designer. However, quickly I learned while I could produce a simple website flawlessly and it looked good..I didn’t know everything. Just because I had dreamweaver and photoshop, didn’t make me a ‘designer’.
I went back to school and got my degree in graphic design. web design is now one of many things I can do. I also am a member of the AIGA and GAG, and those prices listed were pulled out of her ášš. Pricing for websites is a lot more complicated than a ‘flat rate”.