Man, it is amazing what people will buy on Ebay. Here is someone doing web design. Sorry looking sites made in Frontpage. Look at the background the shadowing and the page titles.
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Megan posted this at 15:46 — 27th October 2001.
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I really can't beleive some of these people who try to make money doing this. It makes all of us look bad.
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taff posted this at 17:32 — 27th October 2001.
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hehehe...
"We make custom web sites with their own custom graphics...to create a web site that is unique to YOU"
With one exception, every site in her portfolio, her OWN site AND the Ebay page itself ALL use the same background texture!
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mairving posted this at 21:16 — 27th October 2001.
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My favorite now. One on of the pages, she has for the Alligators, she has a picture of a couple of alligators. It was saved as a gif file and is 195K. On the T-shirt site, she has one image that is 194K and another that is 151K. These are only the ones that I looked at. I guess that she never said that she would optimize the graphics.
Mark Irving
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Busy posted this at 23:16 — 27th October 2001.
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"We challenge ANYONE to find a better web site ANYWHERE on the Internet for a lower price"
Maybe there is hope for me yet
Must be made for Netscape, the mouseovers dont work on IE, they could of at least been transparent, checked a few other pages and its her index page at fault, she's missing some code somewhere, the table background (white) isnt showing up
buds fishing page uses a black background, no texture woohooo
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Mark Hensler posted this at 23:55 — 27th October 2001.
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I highly doubt they do any of their graphic design in house. Most looks like free clip art, or perhaps provided by the client.
I have no idea how the hosting is done, but for only 6 pages, they prolly through the sites on the same shared server. You can get free search engine submission from several places.
I've written scripts for less than $500. Who would pay that for 6 pages done in FrontPage?
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detox posted this at 13:02 — 28th October 2001.
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You know what really gets to me? It isn;t that there are people out there that sell this 'service' it is that people out there buy this service. If you were renovating your house and putting in a new hitchen, would you go for the guy who says he would do it for $200 ??!!!!!
You get what you pay for.....
in this case I was more impressed with the contents of my tissue when I last blew my nose!
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The Webmistress posted this at 15:26 — 28th October 2001.
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You could always build a site about it and join Busy & DM in their bid for worst/grossest site!!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Jack Michaelson posted this at 19:55 — 29th October 2001.
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Oh my god! it's REALLY bad! Did you see the 'Yes we do now flash too' link? Just sad... all text transitions are Flash 5 presets or downloadable presets...
On the other hand: These sites are good for our self confidence
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jackchen posted this at 03:12 — 2nd November 2001.
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I wouldn't pay $200 for a piece of bullsh!t.
Did you guys read the comments left by previous clients?
Man, either they're all made up, or they're left by cows.
Enigmatic posted this at 18:06 — 2nd November 2001.
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Those are the people who are decreasing the rates for quality web design, make the market worse and worse... Jeez, what a amateur!
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Megan posted this at 18:35 — 2nd November 2001.
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Some people are just really, really easily impressed.
sticky posted this at 19:06 — 2nd November 2001.
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Most of these so-called web designers were using my free templates from my site to sell website packages. The cheek.
I wouldnt bother with e-bay, they are all a bunch of rouges on the Internet section of e-bay. I was giving away free good quality web templates untill those (expletive here) started abusing the word "free" and started to re-sell them as "proffesional website packages". Now I have to charge a subscription fee for my templates. Thank god e-bay have woken up to these rouges and removed their auctions.
Im all for people having a try at designing websites and making money for doing so, but they are over saturating the market with crap and tarring the good webdesigner with their brush. Hopefully good webdesign will always rise to the top.
And that people will soon see through them.
Cheers, Sticky