After another long internet-session I came to the conclusion that many webpages of big, well-known studios often tend to be really bad.

With really bad I mean 'not up to date', 'bad design', 'not working links' and stuff like that.

As only a few examples Anabolic and Diabolic come to my mind. It's obvious that these companies belong together. Both their web-pages are similarly bad. The design is lame and Anabolic's webpage has been stating for months that new DVD-releases are arriving at 04/02/01. If there weren't a few updates every few months, I'd think these pages were abandoned.

But there's another great example : www.extremeassociates.com has got a website which is even more amateurish than many pages I've seen having been created by schoolkids. The design is extremely bad (can we talk about design here ?) and the content looks unprofessional. The texts often look like having been written by an angry teenager. About half a year ago they stated that their forum will be back shortly. I can't find a new forum, but after having taken a look at the old one from time to time, maybe that's not even bad.

The worst page I've seen yet, though, is the Armageddon-Entertainment page which gets linked from the Extreme Associates site. Is it really only one big ugly page with a few pictures on it with some of them not even working from time to time or did I miss something ?

I'm not sure what I want to say with this post. Maybe that I wonder why big studios with well-selling products which are of great A/V quality and well-mastered present their companies in the internet by using webpages even frontpage or fusion could create better automatically after a click on a button. Don't they earn enough to offer a professional web appearance ? I usually try to avoid companies with such crappy web appearances. If it wasn't for the professional appearance of ADN or Fivestar I'd certainly not even buy one single DVD from them.

Explanations or other opinions are highly appreciated :-)

Spesedy

Edited by - stephdunn on Apr 19 2001

Topic Moved by - stephdunn on Apr 19 2001

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