- Clumsiest Corporate URL
A sure indicator of a company composed entirely of people who've never used the Web in their life, or alternatively are too stingy to pay up to domain name squatters
Nominations:
EMI dancesite <http://www.dancesite.com/>
crap writing, empty pages, nonsensical design.
NomiNation <http://www.uk.com>
What a big rip off! A fee for being in uk.com?! Suckers!.
HM Stationary Office <http://www.theso.co.uk>
They use this domain for email, and their alternative web domain is the even more hideous http://www.the-stationery-office.co.uk/, and these guys are professional publishers.
Evening Standard On-line <http://www.thisislondon.com/>
Oh please, what was wrong with www.standard.co.uk?.
NTK .NOT nominations <http://www.ntk.net/not.cgi>
For not realising they had HM Stationary Office listed twice ! (Alright, we fixed it now - Dave)
Internet Works <http://www.iwks.com>
Unmemorable, unpronounceable, barely typeable. That's Future Publishing!.
Dateline <http://www.datelline.uk.com>
Overuse of .com domain name where .co.uk is more appropriate.
Lycos UK <http://www.lycosuk.co.uk>
Mmm, two UKs in one URL! Tasty!
British Midland <http://www.iflybritishmidland.com/>
It's long, its clumsy it's hard to type and there isn't a hope of guessing it from scratch.
Harley-Davidson-London <http://www.harley-davidson-london.co.uk/>
Excessive use of hyphens, extra localisation information.
Chrysalis Records <http://www.chrysalis-uk.com/>
This site has loads of graphics, Impossible navigation and zero content.
- Ghostliest Site
Sites that sound great, but haven't been updated for ages. Broken links a bonus!
Nominations:
C'Lock magazine <http://www.clock.co.uk>
Uncle Rupert discontinues it... but forgets to archive it COS HE DOESNT UNDERSTAND!!!.
Nerdware <http://www.nerdware.org>
It's sad beyond belief!.
- Least Lamented Net Magazine
Plenty to choose from, some of which still have live Websites. Coming soon: a complete list of all the ones that went bust this year, in case you've forgotten them already.
Nominations:
None received.
- Most Disappointing Rip-off of Suck
In tribute to all those who see themselves as ground-breaking and original as the last ground-breaking and original guy.
Nominations:
Rant <http://www.rant.co.uk>
No, please! More obvious targets!
NTK <http://www.ntk.net>
Superior in every sense except the complimentary one.
The Lard Enquirer <http://www.lard.com/enquirer>
for continuingly misspelling month old stories in an unreadble format.
Weird magazine <http://www.weird.co.uk/>
Looks good, the art is great. But isn't funny. Or weird.
Rant <http://www.rant.co.uk>
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Tired <http://www.tired.co.uk>
Also a contender for Ghostliest Site
- Most Gratuitous Use Of Frames
Work this one out for yourself. Oh, where do you start?
Nominations:
The VNU Website <http://www.vnu.co.uk>
Just appalling. Appalling.
Jean Michelle Jarre <http://www.jarre.com>
It's the virtual Jean Michelle Jarre's home, but does the real JMJ's home look like a tiny minimaly renderd, hard to naviate white 'space' boxed in by tiny frames? .
Matthew Thompson's World <http://www.flirble.org/mattt/main.html>
As you can see - I'm crap and got the URL wrong the first time round. So don't I deserve an award for not knowing my own URL?? Please?.
Matthew Thompson's World <http://www.flirble.org/matt/main.html>
Well I'm hardly going to win awards for the amazing design of the site so I might as well slate it myself!.
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- Most Mediocre Net Journalist
Another 'open round'. Have fun. Note that you have to supply an URL (or a representative quote of their writing) for this category, just to prove how mediocre they are.
Nominations:
Spyder <http://>
Oh, come on...
Dr. Keyboard <http://www.the-times.co.uk>
for stating the blatantly obvious.
Wavey Davey Winder <http://>
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Dave Green <http://alt.venus.co.uk/davegreen/>
Because he claims to be.
Leslie Bunder <http://www.teletext.co.uk/couk/bunder.htm>
Nominated for services to stating the obvious (What I want from the web ... up to date sites, more email - what he needs is a spell checker!).
The Times "Interface" Team <http://www.the-times.co.uk>
Press release re-writing beyond the call of duty.
Kate Russell <http://www.computerchannel.co.uk/>
Sadly, no longer sarcastically referred to as "our resident expert".
- Most Overrated Website
The site that everyone plugs, and everyone recommends, but in fact is rubbish.
Nominations:
The Mini Site <http://www.mini.co.uk>
Mini is right. Okay, well-designed - but does anyone go back there twice?
Time For Teletubbies <http://moose.spesh.com/teletubbies/>
It's bloody tellytubbies innit.
Kate Russell <http://www.computerchannel.co.uk/>
Sadly, no longer sarcastically referred to as "our resident expert".
DigitalMindStream <http://www.abel.net.uk/~dms>
Because of all the porn, drugs, bombs and free perl scripts. Alright, I just wanted a link to my site, OK ?.
- Most Underrated Website
The opposite of the former. Good sites that don't get any coverage because they aren't very flashy or lah-di-dah, but are really useful. Like the good old Internet Movie Database.
Nominations:
Geek Code Generator v.3.1 <http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~northrup/geek/geek.html>
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The Good Old Internet Movie Database <http://uk.imdb.com/>
Everyone's too busy trying to work out how to rip them off to do them justice.
RootShell <http://www.rootshell.com>
All your useful anti-social exploits in one website! Wow!.
SavvySearch <http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form>
A meta search engine that searches loads of other places, and no adverts either !.
CricInfo <http://www.cricket.org>
it may look crap, but an average of 2.5 million accesses a week say it's the most popular single sport site in the world. And you can look up the accesses.
NewsHub <http://www.newshub.com/>
All the headlines you can read in a variety of areas from loads of sites, updated every 15 minutes. What more could you want?.
Nerdware <http://www.nerdware.org>
It's sad beyond belief!.
Cheeses of Nazareth <http://www.cheesesofnazareth.com/>
Because they domain name is fuxxin brilliant.
Internet Oracle Resources <http://www.pcnet.com/users/stenor/oracle/index.html>
Everyone forgets about the Internet Oracle, but I still find it good for a laugh and a nice way to waste time at work.
- Worst Design Innovation
Pointless innovations in the Web world.
Nominations:
Novell UK's "3D" site <http://www.novell.com/uk/3d>
Novell says "we have created a 3d Web site" - but are they using Superscape software or somthing similar? Are they hell. You have to get a pair of green/red specs to view it. And even then it's crap.
Danda's Personal Eyes <http://www.danda.co.uk/personaleyes/>
It's a "see the spectacles on your own face" gimmick. But you have to send them the photo by post. DoooHHhhhH!.
PixFX Creative Division <http://www.pixfx.co.uk/creative.asp>
Creative? Creative over use of the transparent gif trick .... uggh!.
Microsoft's Tiny Fonts <http://www.microsoft.com>
IE4.0 shows fonts bigger than Netscape. So if you design for IE 4.0, you're condemning 70% of the public to myopia.
Parlophone Records <http://www.parlophone.co.uk/>
I's so damm ugly, yet it used to look so nice( about 1 year ago! ).
The unentertaining shockwave games at www.herc.co.uk <http://www.herc.co.uk>
Shockwave! Satan's gift to designers
Hot Wired <http://www.hotwired.com/>
Oh look please, this one is obvious! Who decided that gaudy colours and abuse of HTML was trendy? I wear they'd use blink if they could ...
Littlewoods Online Shopping <http://webspecials.virgin.net/>
It's just rubbish. .
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