Eshin Direct

Ten reasons why you know a website has been designed in Hong Kong by amateurs:

10. Critical information and calls to action pop up at you because the site owner said it needed to be attention grabbing to the designer. They also forgot to tell them to put an additional link on the main page just in case you might be blocking popups.

9. Use of frames and iFrame to hide poor design skills. You’ll usually find the main content in sub frames.

8. Contact information and content seem to be mutually exclusive. When you do find an email address, you wonder why the site owner spent money on www.hisdomain.com and mycompany@netvigator.com

7. The site loads great in Hong Kong but if you are abroad, then you might as well get a cup of tea while you wait for the site to load. If you don’t have broadband, don’t even bother. (Okay, I’m guilty of this one too).

6. It’s nice of the designer to let you know that this page hasn’t been updated since May 15, 2002.

5. Should a 50×50 GIF file really be blown up to 600×600 using the width and height properties of the img tag, especially if it is the site’s logo?

4. Impressive use of gaudy and bright colours such as #40F5FF and #FF9900 .

3. You wear glasses to prevent web glare as you click on a Hong Kong site link because you know there will be a wonderful explosion of often mismatched colours in half a minute (Click link only if you are wearing Gucci sunglasses and have sun tan lotion of at least SPF 40 on).

2. The designer has been lazy and decided to use only Asian fonts which display Western text in this horrible bastardization of Times New Roman.

1. Pointless flash intros designed to either accomodate the designer’s ego to show off his (usually poor) flash skills or satisfy the site owner’s misguided belief that he’s advertising on TV.

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