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origami — microsoft continues to ignore web design

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The recent buzz of a potential Microsoft tablet/media handheld device is impressed upon the public with this roughly coded and developed site: http://www.origamiproject.com

One page. 14 errors. Flash scripted with not charcter type.

Aside from the black background, and a sad attempt at (not so sure?) ectched metal top/bottom headers with a 1988 audio dub — while it stinks of poorly thought out design, it’s coding is a disaster of long hand CSS without proper html standards and no care for handicap accessibility.

A fortune 500 company without the resources to build a proper site, from a design and development standpoint is a shame. Flash designs like this were passé in 1997, and that semi Mac OS X standard backdrop doesn’t invite anything innovative.

Design reflects your image, it’s importance should not be disregarded so easily. What buzz does it create when it looks less professional than most rookie design sites?

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2 Reader Comments::
  1. 1 Robert says:

    I’m not a Microsoft fan, quite the contrary. This design and code is crap. But still: mind the fact that the Validator does not understand JavaScript and gets confused when stumbling over it.

  2. 2 Brady J. Frey says:

    That’s a good point, I can see that — I wish they would have focused on accessibility, though — this does nothing for users without javascript or flash but warn them they can’t see it.

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