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RaelRode · 10-03-2007, 18:15

Browsing the web and decided to look into a Damp Course association. The BWPDA is a company that gives damp coursers their accreditation etc so I came across their webiste and it occurred to me. If I had a damp course company I wouldn't want people going to that website to see my name on it somewhere because the design is so pre 2000 esque!

The main "hate" points are the dreadful hover buttons and the use of tables to create the design structure. And whenever you click on a "desired area" you get forwarded to yet more pre 200 esque websites with basically the same design for each.

What are your views on this association whom are about to be announced as a "you-must-be-BWPDA-associated-or-you-cannot-trade-if-you-are-a-damp-proof-company" and the web design is appauling. Also the fact that they take 5% of every companies turn-over each year for being associated is also, appauling.

What do you think??

Its not about the company its mainly about the design, just the fact that they are quite big and have a crappy website design.

datahound · 10-03-2007, 18:18

instead of dragging them through the mire flip them an email and pitch for the business?

theantidote · 11-03-2007, 21:56

I've found that it's a lot easier to list every big company with good, compliant designs rather than those without. It's going to be at least 10 years before the majority of the internet has websites that are XHTML and CSS compliant, maybe longer if you consider that a lot of "designers" are still pumping out table based crap and what's even worse is that's what they were taught in their web design course at their fancy universities.

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RaelRode Designers are strange :) Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Shrewsbury, UK Posts: 1,733	Start a free-for-all Browsing the web and decided to look into a Damp Course association. The BWPDA is a company that gives damp coursers their accreditation etc so I came across their webiste and it occurred to me. If I had a damp course company I wouldn't want people going to that website to see my name on it somewhere because the design is so pre 2000 esque! The main "hate" points are the dreadful hover buttons and the use of tables to create the design structure. And whenever you click on a "desired area" you get forwarded to yet more pre 200 esque websites with basically the same design for each. What are your views on this association whom are about to be announced as a "you-must-be-BWPDA-associated-or-you-cannot-trade-if-you-are-a-damp-proof-company" and the web design is appauling. Also the fact that they take 5% of every companies turn-over each year for being associated is also, appauling. What do you think?? Its not about the company its mainly about the design, just the fact that they are quite big and have a crappy website design.

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theantidote can't draw but can code Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 109	I've found that it's a lot easier to list every big company with good, compliant designs rather than those without. It's going to be at least 10 years before the majority of the internet has websites that are XHTML and CSS compliant, maybe longer if you consider that a lot of "designers" are still pumping out table based crap and what's even worse is that's what they were taught in their web design course at their fancy universities.

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