Comments on: Should You Tell People Their Blog Design is Ugly?

By: Magic Tricks Revealed

Magic Tricks Revealed — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:05:05 +0000

Hey, I just came across your blog and wanted to tell you that you have great articles. All the best. Cheers, George

By: Paige

Paige — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:39:09 +0000

I found your blog from a link on someone else's blog (Poewar) and was inspired to click on the link that brought me to this post.) Good article! And I loved reading all the comments - I had to laugh at the "butt ugly" conversation! I'll be reading more of your blog for sure! Thanks for making my day! Paige´s last blog post...Rather sad

By: Lia

Lia — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:09:33 +0000

Forget the blog, what if there’s someone who’s very unphotogenic yet posts heaps of flickr pictures of themselves on their blog.

Someone who wears super tight clothing to look sexy (more girls tend to do this) but are really ugly and have wrinkles… and act like they are the hottest thing ever.

Oh and they post pictures of themselves with their equally unphotogenic male sidekick. And their blog content is self-centered like all blog content but utterly boring and banal but with the added woe of begging (in the form of wishlists).

In perpective a ugly blog is better then a ugly blog owner.

By: Deb Ng

Deb Ng — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:56:41 +0000

I’m always afraid someone is going to tell me my blog’s ugly.

By: Lodewijk van den Broek

Lodewijk van den Broek — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:49:24 +0000

@Meryl: Personally I like a little 'off-black' text. It softens the look of the page. But overdoing it is foggy indeed. Lodewijk van den Broek's last blog post..Birth of a Blogger

By: Meryl

Meryl — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:34:45 +0000

Me -- no spine. Whenever I mention something negative about a Web site, I usually don't name the site. What can I say? I don't want to get a reputation for being negative. What if that Web site decides to use my services? One thing I do speak out on repeatedly... STOP with the gray text on white. Please. This is a bad trend that needs to end. It resembles reading in a fog. Meryl's last blog post..Links: 2008-04-11

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By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:29:42 +0000

Awesome. I know you guys would do his site justice.

He did start out the email saying something like, he wishes his site were half as good as mine, so maybe that’s a good starting point. Yeah, I’m definitely going to wrap a whole heck of a lot of complements around it… I wouldn’t want to insult him!

Allison’s last blog post..It’s Your Time To Shine!

By: James

James — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:19:09 +0000

@ Allison – You can always recommend us. Word of mouth referrals are the best kind you can get (and thank you for thinking of us!)

See, this is the exact kind of case that niggles my mind. People, you’re in business. You *need* to look sharp. If you’re hurting your own business, wouldn’t you want to know it?

That said, it’s a tough call. In this case, I think that if it were me, I’d probably say that you’d love to recommend them but that you’re afraid that they may lose the benefit of that referral because the site design detracts from their awesome rockin’ product.

I’d wrap a whole lot of compliments around a small “dude, your site is f-ugly.”

By: Allison

Allison — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:15:12 +0000

What about websites that are solely for the purpose of selling a product? Someone emailed me wanting me to sample their product and review it on Sushi Day, and I hop on over to their website and… it’s a disaster. Misspellings, doesn’t look professional, obviously a free template from somewhere… pretty much looks horrible. I think they are trying to be cool and *hip*, but it’s really not working for them. If the person had not contacted me (their email was also full of misspellings, grammar mistakes, run-on sentences) I would never even consider their product just because the website doesn’t look at all professional.

So… do you think it is alright to tell people (in a nice way, of course) that maybe they should hire a professional designer to design their website if it is a website that is for the purpose of making money, as opposed to a more personal website? And if so, would it be alright for me to recommend your web design services to him?

Allison’s last blog post..It’s Your Time To Shine!