View Full Version : Worst website redesign ever
Chuckles
22-07-2009, 23:57
From BE?
https://www.bethere.co.uk
Blighter
22-07-2009, 23:57
:(
Psymonkee
23-07-2009, 00:11
:shocked:
O2 it is then. At least their site doesn't look like teletext barfed all over my screen! :D
Sorry to the Christians among us, but Jesus Christ! Their website has always been a little odd, but that's just wrong.
I just left this on the forum. Bets on whether it sticks:
Hello there, 1992 calling. Windows 3.1 wants their colour scheme back.
I'll give Be* their due, that's one hell of a viral marketing campaign you've got there. It's also one hell of a turn-off. The 16-colour CGA palette went out of fashion when Windows 95 came out, and I honestly wish it wouldn't come back.
As a visually impaired software developer, I know a thing or two about good user interface design, and this isn't it. Please, do everyone a favour and turn down the contrast and overuse of animated gifs. The website looks like it was created by some 16-year-old script kiddie. Professional it isn't.
Blighter
23-07-2009, 01:15
You forgot to add the part that goes like:
"It's a piece of ******* ****** **** **** ******* *** ******."
;)
Streeteh
23-07-2009, 01:18
Right well this only adds to why i'm glad i'm leaving them this month. Gits even charged me £40 for only giving them 31 days notice! Apparently they're the only company in the world that wants THREE MONTHS notice when you leave them.
You forgot to add the part that goes like:
"It's a piece of ******* ****** **** **** ******* *** ******.*
Banned! That definitely wouldn't stick even if it happens to be what I think.
Right well this only adds to why i'm glad i'm leaving them this month. Gits even charged me £40 for only giving them 31 days notice! Apparently they're the only company in the world that wants THREE MONTHS notice when you leave them.
I know about that one - price paid for a month-by-month contract. If I could get static IP on O2, I'd jump, especially as I'm planning to become an O2 customer anyway soon.
My other reason for being a Be* customer is the service profile I need for Draytek, but since I'm barely getting ADSL2+ speeds anyway, I might as well forgo that.
I think I'm the only person that likes what they've tried to do!
Without saying I like the site as it is now, I like the idea of something new and this goes a long way into a world of it's own (too far at the moment,yes) but I guess I'm also one of few who likes change. I hated the old site though so looking forward to what comes of this redesign.
Streeteh
23-07-2009, 01:25
I know about that one - price paid for a month-by-month contract. If I could get static IP on O2, I'd jump, especially as I'm planning to become an O2 customer anyway soon.
I wouldn't mind if the ***** had told me that when i signed up, they never told me it was a month by month contract or that i needed to give them three months notice when i wanted to leave. I organised the connection over the phone as when i moved into the flat i had no access to the internet, basically i had no means to know about those T&Cs they just assumed i knew them. I just noted down the number when i was over someone else's house and called them from my place and discussed which connection to get.
I also wouldn't mind if the guy who told me about the charge wasn't so bloomin' smug! The way he talked it was as if the £40 was going in his pocket!
It was definitely in the T&C when I signed up last December. I knew about it. :)
In fact, I'm going to start the three-month countdown in the morning. Just looked at O2's website and if I do become a customer, I'll pay the same for what I suspect might be better service - including static IP.
Streeteh
23-07-2009, 01:37
Oh i'm sure it was in the T&Cs, it's just as i say, if you sign up over the phone it's not as if the T&Cs are given. It's probably in the documents i was sent when i received my router but i just wish they had told me over the phone when i signed up, it's a pretty major part of the contract and should at least be mentioned imo.
Umm. Why are they using a self-signed SSL certificate on a major public site?
Firefox kicks up a fuss when you try to access the page, as does Opera (and I believe IE7&8 will do too)
I like their last tweet:
We get the gist of the feedback; our new website is live and you don’t like the look of it. We’ll listen and learn over the next few days.
Sorry to the Christians among us, but Jesus Christ!
Oddly enough those were the first 2 words out my mouth then I had to pick myself up off the floor having suffered a fit.
Umm. Why are they using a self-signed SSL certificate on a major public site?
Doesn't look self-signed to me. Did you look while their site was broken?
Not that I would probably notice a self-signed certificate anyway - I've got the Perspectives Firefox plugin installed.
Doesn't look self-signed to me. Did you look while their site was broken?
Not that I would probably notice a self-signed certificate anyway - I've got the Perspectives Firefox plugin installed.
Must have done, it looks now to be on a COMODO signed one. Weird.
Doesn't look self-signed to me. Did you look while their site was broken?
Not that I would probably notice a self-signed certificate anyway - I've got the Perspectives Firefox plugin installed.
Must have done, it looks now to be on a COMODO signed one. Weird.
Last night Firefox told me their certificate was moody.
I think it looks kinda funkeh :D
It's Comodo signed but FF3.5 jumps up with a sec_error_unknown_issuer, IE8 doesn't, green bar.
iirc, IE is a bit forgiving with problems with intermediate certs, so I'd guess that without digging myself.
It's Comodo signed but FF3.5 jumps up with a sec_error_unknown_issuer, IE8
That's the badger.
NokkonWud
23-07-2009, 10:16
I don't mind it. It's not as good as it was.
However, worst website re-design = Gameplay.
Went from something awesome to one of the ugliest sites ever :(.
I like the way at the bottom of each product it says 'get it', but its not a link!
Ha! I played Be off against O2 and Be knocked 30% off the monthly bill. Given that I wouldn't use most of the O2 extras anyway, that sure works for me. :D
OK, so I miss out on Quidco because I didn't switch, but it won't take long to overcome that.
Good idea, poorly executed.
They haven't got the foundation of the design in place, it's too much "bright colours look cool so put them everywhere" rather than getting the balance between impact and usability right.
If this was done properly it would be a kick ass site, well remembered and modern, in a retro sort of way. Exactly what you need in a saturated market. However the design team didn't quite nail it, shame. Hopefully they'll improve it.
LeperousDust
23-07-2009, 15:05
I like the way at the bottom of each product it says 'get it', but its not a link!
Yes they do :p
I quite like it anyway :D How often do you actually visit the site of your internet supplier anyway? Its clearly just a marketing campaign and its working well, Be* aren't bad at all and are just doing themselves a favour by drumming up interest...
I saw someone else describe it as follows and I thought it pretty much nailed it:
"This is what happens when you employ a bunch of feebleminded artsy folk to design you something based around some contrived message you want to deliver, rather than make something that just looks good. In this case the message is CHEAP and EASY which means they've ended up with something that looks like an autistic 15 year old did it."
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