teammatt3 wrote: I just

Duke Nukem — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:54:54 +0000

teammatt3 wrote:

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?

What the heck!?

urgh. I made a site once

greg — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:28:20 +0000

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

greg wrote: Next thing

decibel.places — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:02:14 +0000

greg wrote:

Next thing people will be using white text on a black background ...er...

Actually, I have heard that white text on a blue background is less straining than black on white...

That's just stupid Next

greg — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:54:32 +0000

That's just stupid

Next thing people will be using white text on a black background ...er...

Probably testing out an SEO

FireFleur — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:03:17 +0000

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

That is a very weird way of

cmoyer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:50:47 +0000

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!

That is an unusual use of

decibel.places — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:50:25 +0000

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 ]

'A' for unique use of form

pr0gr4mm3r — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:18:00 +0000

'A' for unique use of form fields.

Hmmm... Looks like the

ms2134 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:26:13 +0000

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