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Site: Warehouse Furniture

Submitter’s comments: They’ve had their advertisements running on TV for some time now, and needless to say, there might be some similarity between the quality of their ads and the quality of their web page.

Right off the bat, you notice their wonderful red-to-yellow gradient background, with black surrounding it. Their layout is fixed, and they’re letting you know it. There’s useless Flash animations scattered throughout their site and take a look at the code that powers the web site. It’s wretched. It seems to have been generated by something.

One more thing, they resize their images in the browser. Quite large images, I must add. The recliner images look like they’ve just been squashed by an anvil.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: It’s been a long time since I’ve seen gradients like these. The site would be improved by 80% if the backgrounds disappeared. I got rid of the background and this screenshot shows I was wrong about the 80% improvement. It’s more like 500%.

We certainly don’t need a Flash logo or much of any of the Flash that’s here. The reason the recliner images are squished is probably because they scanned in an ad and made it fit in a smaller space.

Warehouse Furniture