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Nepresso

Submitter’s comments: This web site has many different layouts. It seems like they were all designed separately and then put together to make one web site held together with string and gum. Click on their site map and poke around to see what I’m talking about.

Also, you’ve got to love (hate) a largely flash-based web site And links with vertical text. And auto-playing music.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Yeah. I hate those things, too, and I also hate coffee. (My only addiction was the caffeine pill Vivarin. When I wrote my first book, I put the empty Vivarin containers on my door. These were the large Vivarin boxes and you can see what it takes to write a book.)

What I really disliked about the home page is that it looks like you have to register to use the site (you don’t). It also talks about “capsules,” which made me think they sold vitamins (I guess it has something to do with coffee, but how would I know?)

At least you can turn off the music and it seems to stay off (unlike some other sites where it starts playing when you go to a new page). Sideways navigation is annoying and it’s wrong. I’m not sure about the site map. I found a drop-down menu, which is annoying and shouldn’t be used.

The major problem occurs when you go to the Nepresso System page. Logically, I sat there waiting for something to happen. WTF? Nothing happens!

Nepresso