Cyberkitsch - it's a start
Bensen has been doing research on cyberkitsch, but is too lazy to blog, so I'm helping him blog.
As we all know, our journey of cyberkitsch started at our discovery of this page at Walled City expounding on the grotesqueries of cyberkitsch, which brought up the all too familiar cursed sites (see the page for details) by pre-1998 netizens.
Bensen's first find was something religiously unnerving, practically blasphemous, and totally scary, I shall not post it here. Ask him for the link to see the (I quote him) "wonders of american faith".
design. rants about the bad, the worse and the ugly of web-design. Though not awfully pleasing to the eye, the site's a good read, so take a look.
Next he uncovered this site on (surprise, surprise) kangraoos. Kitschy, indeed - the standard websafe, gaudy colours adorn the page, but this one mercifully scrimps on the animated GIFs.
Next was Monkey Kung Fu, the name enough to make you shiver. Two fonts on the page was bad enough, colours in 16-bit, and an awful marquee. Enough said, I didn't scroll through half the page before I left for my bath.
When I returned to the conversation, Bensen discovered that we were not the first to explore this - though I figured that a while ago - and neither would we be the last! Losers.org - Losers on the Internet, has this section on design. Nicely done, they rate 'em losers on a scale of 1L to 5L, though the site is a bit liberal in it's dosage of capitals. Find some really bad web-design here, they have other sections for other groups of losers - groupies, goths, wannabes and so on.
This page topped the charts today. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Anyway, that's all for now, until I/we can be bothered to search some more, you'll have to survive, or at least try to, with what I leave with you now.
As we all know, our journey of cyberkitsch started at our discovery of this page at Walled City expounding on the grotesqueries of cyberkitsch, which brought up the all too familiar cursed sites (see the page for details) by pre-1998 netizens.
Bensen's first find was something religiously unnerving, practically blasphemous, and totally scary, I shall not post it here. Ask him for the link to see the (I quote him) "wonders of american faith".
design. rants about the bad, the worse and the ugly of web-design. Though not awfully pleasing to the eye, the site's a good read, so take a look.
Next he uncovered this site on (surprise, surprise) kangraoos. Kitschy, indeed - the standard websafe, gaudy colours adorn the page, but this one mercifully scrimps on the animated GIFs.
Next was Monkey Kung Fu, the name enough to make you shiver. Two fonts on the page was bad enough, colours in 16-bit, and an awful marquee. Enough said, I didn't scroll through half the page before I left for my bath.
When I returned to the conversation, Bensen discovered that we were not the first to explore this - though I figured that a while ago - and neither would we be the last! Losers.org - Losers on the Internet, has this section on design. Nicely done, they rate 'em losers on a scale of 1L to 5L, though the site is a bit liberal in it's dosage of capitals. Find some really bad web-design here, they have other sections for other groups of losers - groupies, goths, wannabes and so on.
This page topped the charts today. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Anyway, that's all for now, until I/we can be bothered to search some more, you'll have to survive, or at least try to, with what I leave with you now.
