webdesign: UR DOIN IT WRONG

[helenic]

fire_brand and The Register have already offered much incisive commentary on Be (an ISP owned by O2)'s new rebranded website. HOW WRONG IS IT? LET ME COUNT THE WAYS. Not only does it look like it was designed by a group of bickering 13 year olds who can't decide which of their MySpace page backgrounds to use, but it contains my new favourite image on the internet.

Go to the "Personalise" drop down menu below the main navigation menu on the left. Select the second option. What is it? It's hard to tell, what with the awkward tiling and clashing colours, but do you know, I believe it is a KNIGHT IN ARMOUR RIDING A PSYCHEDELIC MAGIC CARPET WHILE PLAYING THE GUITAR.

WHAT.

As if that horror wasn't enough, check out the pink pixellated balloons that look like breasts a little further down. Because that's appropriate for a national ISP! Ho yus.

In honour of this piece of internet history, I have made an icon of the acidhead rockstar space knight.* Feel free to steal it!

*The filename is "beknighted.png". I crack myself up.

Comments

[simont]

I couldn't find that image on the site myself (the "Personalise" menu didn't seem to be there at all when I looked), but going by your icon of it, it looks suspiciously as if it might be a screenshot from a Spectrum game, although sadly (er, or possibly happily) not one I recognise.

[simont]

Ah, for some reason it works when I look at it from home. OK, it looks less Spectrummy in full resolution. That's probably a relief...

[emperor]

That's quite impressively dreadful!

[merrythebard]

Damn, I don't have any of my horrified or appalled icons on Dreamwidth!

But... yikes. Those are really quite something.

[ashfae]

*vomits*

Oh god, I did better web design when I was sixteen and using Geocities!

[sir_rosealot]

I *love* the knight!