How not to design a testimonials page
I just came across this page while scouting out the competition for a new project..
Here's the weirdest testimonials page I've ever seen.
This is just cracking me up. I've never seen anything like it. Can you think of any reason to put your testimonials in a select box?
Michael James Swan posted this at 06:26 — 17th November 2008.
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Hmmm... Looks like the website designer was smoking a crack pipe or something.
I cannot see why?
Testimonial pages can always be a good thing or a bad thing... Hmm, this one is bad.
~ Mike
pr0gr4mm3r posted this at 14:18 — 17th November 2008.
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'A' for unique use of form fields.
decibel.places posted this at 14:50 — 17th November 2008.
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That is an unusual use of select
Reminds me of those pages from the mid-90s with all the buttons...
It was probably very quick to build from template
One clue to the choice - the testimonials are not copyable...
How would this affect SEO? I'm not sure...
[Before I viewed this thread, I was sure you were talking about my testimonials page which is not too weird, I think. Psychologists call that response ego-centric
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cmoyer posted this at 02:50 — 20th November 2008.
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That is a very weird way of doing it, but it works, I guess.
I see what you found about not being able to copy.
If the designer increased the height of the fields it would make the boxes look like an iframe at least but the way they are it is just different. The designer must have had some unidentified thoughts going through his head when they designed this!
FireFleur posted this at 03:03 — 27th November 2008.
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Probably testing out an SEO idea.
Still it is quite innovated, but I suppose you could keep coming up with this style of thing - once down that road
greg posted this at 16:54 — 27th November 2008.
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That's just stupid
Next thing people will be using white text on a black background ...er...
decibel.places posted this at 17:02 — 27th November 2008.
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Actually, I have heard that white text on a blue background is less straining than black on white...
greg posted this at 17:28 — 27th November 2008.
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urgh.
I made a site once where the client wanted black background, I convinced him to let me use a very weird shade of blue/purple for the text instead of white, and that seemed to work well. took the extreme "glare" from it, which is the usual problem
Zaccaria posted this at 18:54 — 29th November 2008.
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Here's the weirdest testimonials page I've ever seen.
This is just cracking me up. I've never seen anything like it. Can you think of any reason to put your testimonials in a select box?
What the heck!?
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